The second White Coat Ceremony at the URI College of Nursing was held on January 25th at 9:30 in the morning. Edward Hall was filled with a variety of friends, relatives and faculty who watched 78 new students be accepted into the College of Nursing. This continued the tradition that was started in the […]
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After five years as Associate Director of the Southern RI AHEC, Delores is giving up the reins for other endeavors. Her resignation was effective on January 1, 2016, but according to Delores, “It is not a retirement but an advancement to other projects.” She will still be available to the College of Nursing as a […]
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Meet Hub Jordan Hubbard Jordan is a second semester sophomore in the College of Nursing from Kingston, Massachusetts. When one pictures a nurse, you really don’t come up with the image of a six-two 230 pound lacrosse player. Of course URI current slogan is “Think Big”, and Hubbard fits that description perfectly. He is one […]
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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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