Like any business, money is a key ingredient to making the University of Rhode Island work. The University is the vehicle for education and research, but money is the gasoline or perhaps electricity that makes it run. Karin Conopask is charged by the URI Foundation with helping finding the gasoline/electricity. She is the Director […]
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KINGSTON, R.I.– January 14, 2016– Forty-two registered nurses earned their bachelor of science degrees from the University of Rhode Island and its joint program with Care New England last month.
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Scholarships helped put Cynthia Davis Sculco ’65 through URI’s College of Nursing. She went on to earn her masters and doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers College and embarked on a truly remarkable career.
Continue reading "Cynthia Davis Sculco ‘65: Former Scholarship Recipient Supports Future URI Nurses"The third lecture in the Routhier Lecture series was entitled: “Leadership in today’s complex health care environment: what’s required?” It could also have been entitled just “Leadership”. What is required in being a leader in the nursing field is the same as being a leader in any other segment of society. The four speakers for […]
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How does a family cope when three teenagers lose both their parents suddenly? Terrie Rando was a freshman at the University of Rhode Island; her sister Beth a senior in high school and their brother Tom a junior in high school when their mother died from complications after heart surgery. Their father died of cardiac […]
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Dr. Anne P. Manton, PhD. RN, PMHNP-BC, FAEN, FAAN was recently honored as a 2015 University of Rhode Island Distinguished Alumni. She was nominated by Interim Dean Mary Sullivan from the College of Nursing. In the mid 1980’s, Dr. Manton was working at the MGH Institute of Health Professions as an Assistant Professor when she […]
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Donald H. Dehayes, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs University of Rhode Island recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement between the School of Nursing and the Faculty of Nursing, University Airlangga, Indonesia. The object of this memorandum is to develop a mutually beneficial relationship between the schools. Depending on funding and mutual agreement, the […]
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Esther Emard: Routhier Executive in Residence Esther Emard, MSN, RN, MSLIR holds the position of Executive in Residence at The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing. The title however doesn’t really tell you much about what she does. Interim Dean Mary Sullivan had been looking for a person to fill the Routhier Chair of […]
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The University Of Rhode Island College Of Nursing has a new tradition with each incoming class when it welcomed the new students with a White Coat Ceremony. For more than twenty years, starting with Columbia University in 1993, White Coat ceremonies have been a rite of passage for medical students. In 2014 the Arnold P. […]
Continue reading "College of Nursing Hosts First White Coat Ceremony"URI’s College of Nursing’s Third Routhier Lecture to be held at Butler Hospital KINGSTON, R.I. – October 21, 2015 – The University of Rhode Island’s College of Nursing and the Routhier Foundation will hold the third of a four-part lecture series on Friday, November 13th at the Butler Hospital, Ray Conference Center 345 Blackstone Blvd. […]
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