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New funding for youth homelessness project

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2019: Dr. Naomi Thulien has been awarded an additional $150,000 in funding for her Transitioning Youth Out of Homelessness research project. The additio... Read More

Featuring: Naomi Thulien

Dr. Joanna Pierazzo Appointed Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Nursing Programs

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2019: Dr. Pierazzo brings a wealth of educational and leadership experience to our nursing programs. Read More

Featuring: Joanna Pierazzo

New provincial research centre brings expertise in healthy aging

Thursday, Jun 06, 2019: Announcing the newest research centre in the Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit (OSSU) network: the MIRA | Collaborative for Health & Aging. With Dr. Maureen Markle-Reid. Read More

Featuring: Maureen Markle-Reid

Nursing history show and tell: Issue 4

Thursday, Jun 06, 2019: In 1952, the School of Nursing made a film to promote the new school and to help spread the word that baccalaureate education in nursing was even an option. Read More

Publications and Presentations Mar to May 2019

Monday, Jun 03, 2019: Discover some of the latest articles and presentations by faculty members and graduate students in the School of Nursing. Read More

Retired professor ensures her legacy with a gift of life insurance

Friday, May 31, 2019: Majumdar is extending her remarkable legacy through a gift of life insurance, of which McMaster is the owner and beneficiary. Read More

Featuring: Basanti Majumdar

Micah Zagala wins alumni award

Thursday, May 30, 2019: Congratulations to Micah Zagala, a recent graduate of the McMaster BScN program. Micah won an alumni award for her social, academic and advocacy i... Read More

Carley Ouellette wins award for pain research

Tuesday, May 28, 2019: Graduate student Carley Ouellette has won the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (IPRC) Graduate Scholarship. Read More

Featuring: Michael McGillion

Research Focus: Cancer and precision medicine

Thursday, May 23, 2019: Precision medicine is changing the face of cancer treatment through the use of targeted therapies that differ from traditional chemotherapy, says Dr. Denise Bryant-Lukosius. Read More

Featuring: Denise A. Bryant-Lukosius

Carly Whitmore Awarded a Vanier Scholarship

Thursday, May 23, 2019: Whitmore is a PhD Nursing student in McMaster’s School of Nursing and a trainee with Dr. Maureen Markle-Reid’s Canada Research in Person-Centred Interventions for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and their Caregivers program. Read More

Featuring: Maureen Markle-Reid

McMaster celebrates Indigenous Nurses Day 2019

Thursday, May 23, 2019: How do Indigenous nurses express our own Indigenous knowledge? How do we integrate it into our practice? These were some of the questions that panelists addressed at the Indigenous Nurses Day Celebration. Read More

Featuring: Bernice Downey

Meet today's Nursing valedictorian

Wednesday, May 22, 2019: Meet Micah Zagala, the valedictorian at the May 22 convocation for the School of Nursing. Read More

Faculty of Health Sciences convocation ceremonies this week

Wednesday, May 22, 2019: Students from the nursing school consortium of McMaster and Conestoga and Mohawk colleges receive their degrees at convocation on Wednesday, May 22. Meet two students from the Graduate Program: Julie Rubel and Carly Szabo. Read More

Clinical faculty win awards for nursing excellence

Thursday, May 16, 2019: Kathleen Willison and Stephanie Stokes both won awards at the 18th Annual Nursing Excellence Awards Dinner for St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton this month. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Michael McGillion who has been named a 2019 McMaster University Scholar

Wednesday, May 15, 2019: The title of McMaster University Scholar is conferred on mid-career researchers who have demonstrated international impact in research and recognition for further impactful contributions to come. Read More

Featuring: Michael McGillion

Informing curriculum: Instructors offer emergency skills day

Tuesday, May 14, 2019: Part-time instructor Adrienne Seabrooke recently designed an “Emergency Skills Day” for students in their final year of the BScN program. Read More

Featuring: Heather Burnside , Vanessa Cavalieri, Adrienne Seabrooke, Ruth Chen, Alida Bowman and Joanna Pierazzo

Students' peer mentoring program proves popular

Thursday, May 09, 2019: When students and professors work together on improving the learning experiences of students, great things can happen. Read More

Featuring: Maria Pratt

Top tips for research mentorship

Thursday, May 09, 2019: What makes for a successful mentorship relationship between students and professors? This was the topic of a webinar offered by the Canadian Assoc... Read More

Featuring: Jenny Ploeg

Janese Baartman wins clinical instructor award

Wednesday, May 08, 2019: Janese Baartman took home the clinical instructor award from the Council of Ontario University Programs in Nursing (COUPN) this year. Read More

Featuring: Ruth Chen

Research study aims to reclaim Indigenous knowledge sharing

Wednesday, May 08, 2019: Dr. Bernice Downey has been awarded a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a research project. Read More

Featuring: Bernice Downey

New book features chapters by Jenny Ploeg and Gina Browne

Wednesday, May 08, 2019: Drs. Jenny Ploeg and Gina Browne have each co-authored a chapter in the new book, Developing a Program of Research: An Essential Process for a Suc... Read More

Featuring: Jenny Ploeg and Gina Browne

New appointment for Dr. Bernice Downey

Wednesday, May 01, 2019: Dr. Bernice Downey has been appointed as the Acting Director, McMaster Indigenous Research Institute. Read More

Featuring: Bernice Downey

Happy Administrative Professionals Week

Friday, Apr 26, 2019: The School of Nursing celebrated Administrative Professional Week with a lunch at the University Club on Friday. It was a chance to get together a... Read More

Visiting scholar presents research on AIDS

Monday, Apr 22, 2019: The School of Nursing hosted Sahar Nouri, a visiting PhD student from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, at the Research Rounds on April 15. Read More

Featuring: Noori Akhtar-Danesh and Michael McGillion

Nurse practitioner graduates win awards

Monday, Apr 22, 2019: Congratulations are in order for two graduates of McMaster University’s Nurse Practitioner program. They have both won awards from the McMast... Read More

Featuring: Nancy Carter