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U.S. News & World Report ranked the Connell School ninth out of 684 nursing schools in the Best Undergraduate Nursing Programs.

A $1.8 million grant from the Bedford Falls Foundation will support the听Connell School鈥檚听undergraduate nursing program through scholarships, a new learning specialist to oversee student success programming, and an emergency fund for students.听

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Faculty

Alumni

Courtesy: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Anne Gross, M.S. 鈥90, was named the Ning Zhao Chair of Nursing, the first endowed nursing position of its kind at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Gross is chief nursing officer at Dana-Farber.

In a 艾可直播 College Magazine article, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Ph.D. 鈥22, discusses her research and care for patients with a comorbidity of chronic pain and past issues with substance abuse.

Read more about her work

Students

Publications and presentations

CSON 艾可直播and their teams were prolific in their scholarly work, including:

Publications
  • Caring for long-term care residents with serious persistent mental illness, by Associate Professor听Jane Flanagan

  • Trisomy 21 and congenital heart disease: A scientific statement, by Assistant Professor听Melissa Uveges

  • The risk of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and related dementias in older adults with diabetes, by Assistant Professor Patricia Underwood

Presentations
  • Empowering young Korean nurses, by Assistant Professor Eunji Cho

  • Health and mid- to later-life couples, by Professor听Karen Lyons

  • Understanding and navigating menopause, by Assistant Professor听Alison Marshall

Event

Professor Ann Burgess, Assistant Professor Victor Petreca, and retired FBI Agent听Jeff Wood were the Dr. Maureen P. McCausland Pinnacle Keynote Speakers at the fall Pinnacle lecture panel discussion, 鈥淧sychiatric/Mental Health Nursing and Its Effect on the Law, Forensics, and Patient Care.鈥 BC Presidential Scholar Johany Jeune 鈥25 moderated the discussion.

In Memory

Professor Emeritus Carol R. Hartman, who taught at BC from 1967 to 1995 and was a pioneering force in psychiatric nursing, died in August.

Read a remembrance from Professor Ann Burgess