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June 27, 2008
Case Western Reserve's National Youth Sports Program begins fundraising efforts for 2009
The Case Western Reserve University chapter of the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) doesn't officially end its summer 2008 camp until the week of July 7, but Project Administrator Dennis Harris and his staff are already looking ahead to 2009.
June 25, 2008
May Wykle urges nurses to influence public policy at international conference in Bangkok
Nurses can and must work to have a positive effect on the suffering and despair that springs from poor health care in impoverished areas around the world, says May Wykle, dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. Wykle will speak at length to the circular linkage of poverty and health care in a keynote address at the Healthy People for a Healthy World conference in Bangkok, Thailand on June 26.
June 19, 2008
Collaboration—among university programs, students and staff—spurs National Youth Sports Program
Adult-like health issues -- obesity, high blood pressure and more -- are beginning to take a toll on American children, and the people who coordinate the Case Western Reserve chapter of the National Youth Sports Program have committed to helping Greater Cleveland children get or remain healthy during a five-week summer camp.
April 28, 2008
UCITE to Honor Five Glennan Fellows April 30
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) invites the campus community to come out and learn about the research of and to celebrate the five faculty members who were selected as Glennan Fellows during the Annual Glennan Fellows Program, noon to 1:30 p.m., April 30 in the Herrick Room of the Allen Memorial Medical Library.
March 24, 2008
Research ShowCASE to highlight faculty, student research, collaborations
Campus community members interested in the latest findings on aging, oral health, wind energy and more are invited to come out and learn more about these topics and to interact with the researchers. The sixth annual Research ShowCASE -- taking place April 16 and 17 at Veale Convocation Center -- highlights ongoing research from the university. The general public and friends of the university also are invited to attend the free exhibition.
February 13, 2008
Case's Herendeen aids Spartans in final season
Despite the long hours that entail a career in nursing, Mary Herendeen's decision to come to Case Western Reserve University and study at one of the top-ranked nursing schools was somewhat of an afterthought, as the Austinburg native has always had high expectations for herself on the hardwood.
February 01, 2008
President Snyder proclaims Women's Heart Health Month
Case Western Reserve University President Barbara R. Snyder, dressed in a red jacket, signed a proclamation today designating February as "Women's Heart Health Month" on campus.
November 20, 2007
Case Western Reserve University's School of Nursing receives more than $2 million from NIH for new Center of Excellence
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to advance a major part of the national nursing research agenda: chronic disease self-management.
November 09, 2007
Morris completes HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration Program
University Center on Aging & Health Associate Director and Associate Professor of Nursing, at Case Western Reserve University, has recently completed the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration.
November 08, 2007
Managing care in late life study by Case Western Reserve Researchers
Some answers about the quality of life for older Americans will come from 125 remaining members of 1,000 retirees, who have been studied by Case Western Reserve University sociologist Eva Kahana over the past 18 years. The study's elderly participants have provided important information on how people lead successful lives as they cope with the stresses of growing older and frailer in the last years of life.
October 24, 2007
Nurse practitioner students in Guatemala to provide health services for underserved population
Seven nurse practitioner students from the Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing are in Guatemala to provide volunteer health services for underserved Guatemalans with little or no access to health care.
September 18, 2007
National Institutes of Health awards $64 million to Cleveland Medical Consortium; believed to be largest ever to NE Ohio
The National Institutes of Health today announced that it has awarded $64 million to Case Western Reserve University, in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and MetroHealth Medical Center, to become part of a national consortium designed to transform how clinical and translational research is conducted.
August 15, 2007
Case Western Reserve's flight nursing academy holds fifth annual summer camp for advanced practice nurses in air medical services
Disasters often occur without warning. The tragic collapses of an interstate highway bridge in Minnesota and a coal mine in Utah have challenged in new ways the skills of the nation's flight nurses.
Case Western Reserve's flight nursing academy holds fifth annual summer camp for advanced practice nurses in air medical services
Disasters often occur without warning. The tragic collapses of an interstate highway bridge in Minnesota and a coal mine in Utah have challenged in new ways the skills of the nation's flight nurses.
June 25, 2007
A Night of magic moments: Dean Wykle Professorship Announced
It was a night to remember at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel as the Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing last Friday celebrated the nursing profession and honored its dean, May L. Wykle, with the announcement of a new endowed professorship in her name.
June 21, 2007
Pair of faculty members receive Fulbright Awards
Two Case Western Reserve University faculty members have received Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and research overseas during the 2007-08 academic year. Dr. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, and law professor Louise McKinney will take part in programs in Ireland and Botswana, respectively, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
June 18, 2007
Case Western Reserve University to establish its first endowed chair named for an African American
Nearly 40 years ago, when asked by members of the African American community in Cleveland why she would even dream of working at predominantly white Case Western Reserve University, May L. Wykle, a small-town Ohio girl denied entrance to several nursing schools because she was black, said, "Well, someone has to hold the door open!"
May 30, 2007
A Celebration of the Profession of Nursing
"The Art and Soul of Nursing: A Celebration" is a unique, once-in-a lifetime party that will honor Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Dean May L. Wykle, as well as other distinguished leaders in the field of nursing, on June 22 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel.
April 06, 2007
New university trustee receives lifetime achievement award from national nursing organization
Linda Burnes Bolton, a newly appointed trustee to Case Western Reserve University's Board of Trustees, recently received the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. Interim President Gregory L. Eastwood, M.D., announced in a February 2007...
March 30, 2007
Case Western Reserve University graduate programs receive top 50 ratings in U.S. News & World Report rankings
"U.S. News & World Report's" latest America's Best Graduate Schools rankings (for 2008) bring good news for several of Case Western Reserve University's graduate and professional programs.
March 28, 2007
Case students turn the world into a global classroom
Education has gone global for Case Western Reserve University students participating in spring trips to the Ukraine, the Netherlands, Turkey, Kenya and the Dominican Republic.
March 19, 2007
Renowned rural health care advocate and practitioner to speak at Case's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Mona Counts’ clinic in rural Pennsylvania serves more than 5,000 patients in Appalachia CLEVELAND – Mona M. Counts second-mortgaged her home in order to open a clinic that now serves the isolated, undereducated, underemployed and under-insured in the Appalachian region...
October 30, 2006
"Reflecting on 100 Years of Alzheimer's" the theme of Case Western Reserve University conference, November 6-7
Case's University Center on Aging and Health and other health care systems host conference on Alzheimer's Disease CLEVELAND – The year 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of the first case of Alzheimer's disease to the medical world. Currently there are...
August 11, 2006
Case's Flight Nursing Academy holds fourth annual Summer Camp for advanced practice nurses in air medical services
At one-of-a-kind camp, flight nurses simulate treating patients in unstructured environments in order to get used to the real thing
August 08, 2006
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists hold 75th anniversary celebration in Cleveland
Case's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, city of Cleveland both integral part of the organization's history Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing played an active role in the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists' (AANA) annual...
July 07, 2006
Case Western Reserve University nursing school alumna named head of American Nursing Association
Rebecca "Becky" Patton, a Case Western Reserve University nursing school alumna, recently gave her first address as the newly elected president of the American Nursing Association (ANA).
January 11, 2006
Outwit, outplay, outlast: "Survivor" cast member, a Bolton School alumna, meets Case's next generation of nurses
In the jungles and Mayan ruins of Guatemala, Margaret Bobonich, MSN '00, endured mud, mosquitoes and triple-digit heat—and lived among 15 strangers who put a target on her back—in the hopes of winning a $1 million prize. But when she...
December 14, 2005
Case Western Reserve University nursing professor awarded profession's highest honor
Carol M. Musil, an associate professor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was inducted recently as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) at its Annual Meeting and Conference in...