May 14, 2007
Annemarie Barron, assistant professor of nursing, was appointed faculty nurse scientist at the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Munn Center was established in 2003 to provide nurses an opportunity to identify new ways to reshape, influence and improve the delivery of patient care and nursing practice.
Jeannette A. Bastian, associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, is the recipient of the Midwest Archives Association's Margaret Cross Norton Award for her article "In a House of Memory: Discovering the Provenance of Place," which appeared in vol. 28, no. 1 (2003-2004) of Archival Issues, a peer-reviewed journal. Bastian received the award May 4 at the Midwest Archives Annual conference in Columbus, Ohio. The award recognizes the author of what is judged to be the best article in the previous two years of Archival Issues.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science Lecturer Ann Cullen received the Special Libraries Association's 2007 Business & Finance Division Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship, during a June 4 awards reception in Denver, Colo. The award recognizes a division member who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of business and finance librarianship and information science. Cullen is curriculum services librarian at Harvard Business School's Baker Library.
On April 28, Ellen Davidson, assistant professor in the education department, presented a session at the "Creating Balance in an Unjust World" National Conference on Math Education and Social Justice at Long Island University in New York. Her presentation was titled "How Unfair Is It? Analyzing World Resource Distribution in Mathematically Rigorous Ways."
Rebecca Koeniger-Donohue, assistant professor in the Graduate Program in Primary Health Care Nursing, was a presenter at the Northeast Regional Nurse Practitioner Conference May 4. Her topics were "The HPV Vaccine: What Clinicians Need to Know," and "The Revised Guidelines on the Management of Women with Cytologic Abnormalities and Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia." She also published an article in the June issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Nursing, titled "Nurse Practitioner-Client Interaction as Resource Exchange: The Nurse's View."
School of Health Sciences Dean Gerald P. Koocher gave the commencement address to graduates of Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in New York May 21. His speech focused on "Professional Integrity."
Julie Vosit-Steller, assistant clinical professor, published an article in Nursing Spectrum in March, titled "Scholarly Explanation of Collaboration with University of Rhode Island and Romanian Hospices of Hope." The article described a teleconferencing relationship established between the Hospices of Hope in Bucharest, Romania, Simmons College, and the University of Rhode Island School of Nursing, and a trip that this group will take this month. During the trip, Vosit-Steller will take a group of Simmons students to Romania to observe the practices of the hospice staff, as they work with Romanian women at the end of life.
Patricia White and Janet Rico, both assistant professors of nursing, presented the paper "A Learning Collaborative for Accelerated Models of Nursing Education" at the Annual Meeting of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties April 27 in Denver, Colo.
