Mikala Kane


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Two School of Nursing Faculty Appointed to Interim Associate Dean Positions

Annette Jakubisin Konicki and Annette T. Maruca will oversee the School’s graduate and undergraduate studies, respectively

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Nurse Researcher Receives NIH Grant to Help Women Manage Breastfeeding Pain

School of Nursing faculty member Ruth Lucas says most women who stop breastfeeding do so within three weeks after giving birth, and 30% stop due to breast and nipple pain

A nurse administers a vaccine to a patient

Nursing Faculty and Students Administer Nearly 1,600 COVID-19 Vaccines at Over 90 Community Initiatives

The School of Nursing partnered with community organizations, such as Charter Oak Health Center in Hartford and Norwalk Community Health Center, over the spring and summer

World-Renowned Nurse Scientist Nancy Redeker To Join UConn School of Nursing

Redeker is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Heart Association and has an international reputation in biobehavioral nursing science

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Alumna Donates World War I-Era Nursing Posters, Invalid Feeders to the School of Nursing

The artifacts, donated by Diane Sanchez ’95 MS, will be incorporated into the School’s Archives of Nursing History and displayed in the Widmer Wing of Storrs Hall at a future date

A view of Storrs Hall in the fall.

Eight New Faculty Members Join the School of Nursing

The four tenure-track and four clinical faculty members join the School at a time when preparing its students to care for the local and global communities is more important than ever

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School of Nursing Faculty Member, Alumnae to be Inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing

Annette Jakubisin Konicki, Jaclyn Conelius '10 Ph.D., Olga Jarrín Montaner ’02 (NUR), ’07 MS, ’11 Ph.D., and Dorothy Vittner ’16 Ph.D. will be recognized by the Academy in early October

Jonas Philanthropies

Nursing Ph.D. Student Awarded Grant from Jonas Philanthropies

The grant program helps tackle the nation’s most pressing health care issues through support of high-potential doctoral nursing scholars

Nursing Education During COVID-19: How Virtual Classes and Technology Expand Opportunities for Students

What started as a way to make sure students gained enough hours of experience to graduate quickly became an exploration of how technology could advance the nursing curriculum

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Recent School of Nursing Graduate Awarded Patent After Leveraging Multiple Entrepreneurial Resources at UConn

ReduSeal, a technology developed by Ellen Quintana '21 (NUR), works with a standard box of disposable gloves to reduce waste and cut costs