URI Nursing Professor Erica Liebermann serves on international Lancet commission Cancer is a leading cause of mortality in women and ranks among the top three causes of premature death in women under age 70 in almost every country. Yet women continue to face disparities in care that impede their ability to seek and obtain timely […]

Interim Dean Betty Rambur and the faculty of the URI College of Nursing welcomed the Class of 2026 into the nursing profession during the semi-annual White Coat Ceremony Tuesday morning in Edwards Auditorium. The dean and faculty were joined by child and adolescent psychiatric nurse Elaine Meyer, a senior attending psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, […]

The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing welcomes Assistant Professor Jordon Bosse to the college for the start of the fall 2023 semester. Learn about one of the College’s newest professors: Education: Ph.D., Nursing, University of Massachusetts; MSN, Nursing Education, St. Joseph’s College of Maine; BSN, University of Southern Maine, BA, Individualized Studies, Goddard […]

The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing welcomes Assistant Professor Kara Pavone to the college for the start of the fall 2022 semester. Learn about one of the College’s newest professors: Education: Ph.D., Nursing Science, University of Pennsylvania; MS, Nursing Science, University of Pennsylvania; BSN, Nursing Science, University of Pennsylvania; BS, Behavioral Neuroscience, Northeastern […]

Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean Susan DeSanto-Madeya was named a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing (FPCN) through the National Hospice and Palliative Nursing Association (HPNA) in March 2023. DeSanto-Madeya, the URI College of Nursing’s Weyker Chair, focuses on palliative and end-of life nursing care. She is currently an investigator on an NIH-funded study examining […]

Betty Rambur will help analyze access to care, cost and quality of care, and other key issues affecting Medicare University of Rhode Island College of Nursing Dean Betty Rambur has been reappointed as a commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which holds a powerful role in advising Congress on Medicare policy. Rambur, the College’s […]

Dean Betty Rambur, joined by URI President Marc Parlange and Provost Barbara Wolfe, and the faculty and staff of the College of Nursing, conferred degrees upon the graduating class of 2023 on May 20. Dean Rambur and the entire URI College of Nursing extend their heartfelt congratulations to the Class of 2023. Check out a […]

When Lily Jacobson was a young girl growing up in Lincoln, her mother was diagnosed with a serious illness that required multiple surgeries and frequent hospital visits that sometimes lasted as long as two weeks. It was difficult for the young child and her older sister to watch their mom suffer, but at the same […]

URI hosts Sigma honor society induction, welcoming nursing students from around the state The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing hosted the first in-person local Sigma national honor society induction ceremony at Edwards Auditorium Saturday morning, with Associate Dean Susan Desanto-Madeya overseeing the induction of 105 students from around the state. Thirty-eight URI nursing […]

The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased more than eight times in the last 50 years, affecting about 10 percent of infants and toddlers, and 17 percent of children and teens. Those facing obesity as children often do as adults, afflicting about 30 percent of the population, presenting hosts of health problems including diabetes, heart […]