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Transcript of A new FOCUS (First-Year Opportunity for Comprehensive, Unified
Highlights:
For the first time, all
sophomores lived in West
Campus dormitories—part
of a new plan designed to
enhance the second-year
residential experience.
Lectures, weekly dinners
and a majors fair were
among the new programs
implemented to build
community and make the
most of the shared living
experience for the
Class of 2005.
The Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy was launched as
part of Duke’s genomics initiative.
Debates, forums and lectures were held before and during the
U.S. invasion of Iraq. Professors of Political Science Peter Feaver
and Robert Keohane and Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Director Bruce Jentleson were among the faculty frequently
quoted in national news media on issues relating to the war.
A new FOCUS (First-Year Opportunity for Comprehensive, Unified
Study) Program, “Religion, Conflict and Identity in the Modern
Middle East,” was taught by faculty from Asian and African
Languages and Literature, Cultural Anthropology and History.
Awards and recognition:
Dave Chokshi T'03 and Jacob Foster T'03 were among the 32
U.S. Rhodes Scholars.
Melanie Wood T'03 became the first U.S. woman to finish in the
top five in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
David Arthur T'04 won the 2003 Sun Microsystems and
TopCoder Collegiate Challenge as the world's best college
programmer.
Professor of Statistics James O. Berger was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences. Professor of Religion E.P. Sanders
and Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies Joel L. Fleishman
were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Faculty and staff appointments:
Thirty-two new faculty were recruited to Arts & Sciences,
including Albert Chang (physics and nanoscience), Harris
Cooper (chair of education), Sherman James (public policy
studies) and Wendy Wood (psychology).
Three new Bass professorships were named: Sarah Beckwith,
Marcello Lotti Professor of English; Michael Gillespie, Jerry G.
and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science; and
Michael Reed, Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of
Mathematics.
Jerry Oster was appointed communications director.
School statistics:
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences comprised 5,322 students from
50 states and 51 countries. Nearly 12 percent of the students
were Asian-American and another 12 percent were African-
American. International students made up 7 percent of the total;
leading countries of origin were Canada, Turkey, India, South
Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Major gifts:
● Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy: $1 million from
David M. Rubinstein T’70; $1 million from Coca-Cola to
name the media center for trustee emeritus Susan Bennett
King W’62
● Bass FOCUS Challenge: $500,000 from Kenneth W.
Hubbard T’65 and Victoria Dauphinot; $250,000 from
Douglas Leone and Patricia Perkins-Leone P’04
● Need-based financial aid: Bruce A. Karsh T’77, two
$500,000 gifts, bringing the Martha and Bruce Karsh
Scholarship Fund and the Karsh Family International
Scholarship Fund to $1.5 million each
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The Lafe P. and Rita D. Fox Student Center was dedicated.
Fuqua ranked among the top 10 business schools in all programs
as rated by U.S. News & World Report, Business Week and
Financial Times, including a No. 2 worldwide ranking of executive
education by Financial Times.
The Daytime MBA program increased its student body by almost
20 percent.
Fuqua launched the Center for Advancement of Social
Entrepreneurship (CASE), a research and education center
dedicated to promoting entrepreneurial leadership in the social
sector.
The inaugural
Coach K &
Fuqua School of
Business
Conference on
Leadership was
launched.
Global Capital
Markets Center
hosted its first
Directors’
Education
Institute.
Fuqua and Seoul National University’s College of Business
Administration announced a multifaceted alliance.
Fuqua became a platinum-level partner of the Special Olympics of
North Carolina and exceeded $1 million in contributions raised
through MBA Games over the past 14 years.
Awards and recognition:
Professors Helmy Baligh, John Forsyth, John McCann and Marian
Moore retired.
Alexander McMahon, executive-in-residence, received the Duke
University Medal.
A. Ronald Gallant was named the Hanes Corporation Foundation
Professor of Business Administration and Tracy R. Lewis received
the Martin L. Black Jr. Professor of Business Administration
distinction.
Faculty and staff appointments:
Sixteen new faculty members joined the ranks for the second
consecutive record-hiring year.
Richard Staelin was appointed as deputy dean.
John F. Cady came on board as associate dean of executive
education.
Robert Garda became the director of the International Center.
Jean Eisel was named director of the Career Management Center.
School statistics:
The student body consisted of 696 Daytime, 861 Executive MBA
and 65 Ph. D. students and 207 Executive Education open
enrollment participants.
Major gifts:
Donor receipts totaled $8,968,317 for Fuqua’s second highest
fundraising year during the Campaign, including $2 million from
an anonymous donor, $980,000 from the Lafe P. Fox Family
Foundation and $882,500 from NCR.
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Construction began on a $22-million building addition, which will
include a 315-seat chapel; a lecture hall and state-of-the-art
classrooms; office suites for student life, Duke Chapel music staff
and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life; a new
bookstore; and a dining area and terrace. Completion is expected
in early 2005.
The Divinity School was awarded a $3.1-million grant from Lilly
Endowment Inc. to coordinate a $57-million Lilly-funded program
aimed at strengthening the quality of pastoral leadership across
America.
The Divinity School launched a new four-year program, Caring
Communities: Health Ministries and the Practice of Faithful
Caring, underwritten by The Duke Endowment, to provide
interdisciplinary training in health ministry for health care
providers, clergy, lay leaders and community leaders.
Awards and
recognition:
The Company of
Preachers, edited
by Richard Lischer,
the James T. and
Alice Mead Cleland
professor of
preaching, and
Grace Matters, by
current Divinity student Chris P. Rice, were named best of the
year in their respective categories by Christianity Today (June
2003).
Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture by Grant
Wacker, professor of church history, won the 2002 Book Award in
the category of historical studies from the American Academy of
Religion.
Faculty appointments and promotions:
● Daniel C. Arichea Jr., Bishop-in-Residence, from Union
Theological Seminary, Philippines
● Douglas Campbell, Assistant Professor of New Testament
from Kings College, University of London
● Susan Eastman, Assistant Professor of the Practice of
Bible and Christian Formation
● Emmanuel Katongole, Associate Research Professor of
Theology and World Christianity from Uganda Martyrs
University, Nkozi
● Anathea Portier-Young, Assistant Professor of Old
Testament
● Tammy Williams, Lecturing Fellow in African-American
Theology from the doctoral program at Fuller Theological
Seminary
● Fred Edie, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Christian
Education
● Peter Storey, named the Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams
Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry
School statistics:
The 2002-2003 student body consisted of 495 students from 35
states and 10 foreign countries. Forty-five percent of the students
are women and 18 percent are ethnic minorities.
Major gifts:
Gifts and pledges to the Divinity School totaled $12.3 million and
the school exceeded its Campaign for Duke goal of $85 million.
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Construction continued
on the Center for
Interdisciplinary
Engineering, Medicine
and Applied Sciences,
known as CIEMAS; the
building remains on
schedule to open in
August 2004.
Awards and recognition:
Dean Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications
of liquid crystals, was inducted into the Women in Technology
International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25.
Roger Barr, professor of biomedical engineering and associate
professor of pediatrics, was voted the 2003 president-elect for the
Administrative Committee of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society and president in 2004.
Mort Friedman, professor of biomedical engineering, was
appointed one of three U.S. delegates to the International
Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE).
William (Ed) Hammond, professor emeritus of biomedical
engineering, was presented the 2003 Paul Ellwood Individual
Award for Lifetime Achievement from FACCT, the Foundation for
Accountability.
Richard B. Fair, professor of electrical and computer
engineering, won the 2003 Electrochemical Society Award in Solid
State Science and Technology.
Robert Kielb, senior research scientist in mechanical engineering
and materials science, was presented with the ASME Board of
Governors Recognition Award for Accomplishments.
Kenneth C. Hall, chair of mechanical engineering and materials
science, was appointed to a six-year term on the ASME
International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Board of Directors.
Henry Petroski, professor of civil and environmental
engineering, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
Faculty and staff appointments:
Tod Laursen, an associate professor and director of
undergraduate studies in civil and environmental engineering,
was appointed the school's senior associate dean for education.
April Brown joined Pratt in July as chair of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Stojan Radic joined Pratt as Nortel Endowed Associate Professor
in March from Bell Laboratories, where he worked in lightwave
systems research.
Dawn Hails was named school finance manager.
School statistics:
946 undergraduates; 180 Bachelor of Science in Engineering
degrees awarded in May.
343 graduate students, with 74 working toward master's degrees
and 269 Ph.D. students.
Major gifts:
By June 30, Pratt had raised $203.8 million in the Campaign for
Duke, which began in 1996 and continues through December 31,
2003. Pratt’s initial goal of $50 million was increased to $170
million following the adoption of the university’s strategic plan,
Building on Excellence. Pratt raised more than $46 million in gifts
and pledges in 2002-03, including nearly $1.8 million of
unrestricted funds for the Engineering Annual Fund from 44
percent of alumni and 60 percent of Pratt’s faculty.
Edmund T. Pratt Jr., for whom the Pratt School of Engineering is
named, died of cancer on September 5, 2002. An Duke
engineering alumnus and retired chairman and chief executive
officer of Pfizer Inc., Pratt donated $35 million in 1999 to the
school of engineering—the largest gift in the school’s history. "No
one had a greater impact than Ed on our School of Engineering,”
President Keohane said. “His marvelous gift has made it possible
for Duke to embark on many of the critical engineering priorities
identified in Building on Excellence--strengthening and growing
the faculty, providing the necessary facilities and laboratories for
state-of-the-art research and teaching, and attracting the best
students."
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The Nicholas School surpassed its Campaign for Duke goal of $60
million on Dec. 20, 2002.
The second Duke
Environmental Leadership
Forum, “Dealing with
Disasters: Prediction,
Prevention, and Response,”
brought together more than
80 leaders in business,
science and policy to Duke
on Nov. 20-21, 2002, to
look at disasters that are
natural and those that are
purposeful, such as terrorist
acts.
Awards and recognition:
Judson D. Edeburn, Duke Forest resource manager, was
approved for status as a Certified Forester, joining the ranks of
1,600 foresters nationwide.
Gary D. Hartshorn, professor of the practice of tropical ecology,
was named president-elect of the American Institute of Biological
Sciences for 2002.
Michael K. Orbach, director of the Duke University Marine
Laboratory, gave the 2002 Roger Revelle Memorial lecture,
“Beyond the Freedom of the Seas: Ocean Policy for the Third
Millennium.”
William H. Schlesinger,
dean of the Nicholas School
and James B. Duke professor
of biogeochemistry, was
elected to the National
Academy of Sciences.
Martin D. Smith, assistant
professor of environmental
economics, received the 2002
Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award from the American
Agricultural Economics Association.
Faculty and staff appointments:
Stuart Pimm, one of the world’s
foremost experts on endangered
species and habitat destruction, was
named the first Doris Duke
Professor of Conservation Ecology.
School statistics:
The Nicholas School had 177 Master of Environment
Management/Master of Forestry students and 112 doctoral
students, and served more than 700 Duke undergraduates.
Major gifts:
The Nicholas School exceeded
the $5 million mark in new
commitments during the 2002-
2003 fiscal year. Six gifts
totaling $2.5 million will fund
fellowships and internships to
students, provide essential
funding for faculty members,
and assist in the construction of the Ocean Sciences Teaching
Center at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort.
The NSF gave the Marine Lab $1 million to put graduate and
undergraduate students into K-12 schools to share their research
and conduct activities related to marine coastal environments for
15 hours a week. Pictured above, Daphne Pee, a Master of
Environmental Management student and one of the first Duke
Marine Lab National Science Foundation fellows, works with a
student in Carteret County Schools.
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The Graduate School’s
Fall 2002 entering class
was the second largest in
history, with 626
students (426 Ph.D.
candidates). (The 7,825
applicants this year was
the largest number ever.)
The quality of the
entering class, measured
by both standardized
scores and the number of
James B. Duke Fellows,
also kept pace with last
year’s record, as has the diversity of the student body, with 43
U.S. minority students (17 of whom won competitive fellowship
awards). Multi-year statistics on median GRE scores,
undergraduate grade-point averages, time to degree, attrition
rates and job placement of Duke graduates are available from the
Graduate School.
The Graduate School continued its leadership role in several
national initiatives, including Dean Lew Siegel’s appointments to
the Boards of the Council of Graduate School (chair-elect) and the
Graduate Record Examination and Dean Leigh DeNeef’s position
as co-chair of the Association of American Universities Graduate
Program Data Sharing Project.
The Graduate School has been an active participant in the
Woodrow Wilson Responsive Ph.D. Project and the Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate, with five of its programs (Chemistry,
English, Mathematics, History and Psychological and Brain
Sciences) winning initial Carnegie grants to enhance their doctoral
training programs.
Special programs and achievements:
● A new interdisciplinary admitting and certificate program in
Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials
● A year-long series of discussions among members of the
Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, Directors of
Graduate Studies, and the graduate faculty of those factors
and practices, both within the Graduate School and in its
individual programs, that affect the ability of graduate
students to successfully complete their Ph.D. programs
● Creation of a new staff position to develop a series of
centralized pedagogical workshops for graduate students,
to coordinate non-medical Responsible Conduct of
Research Training, and to oversee the Preparing Future
Faculty project
● Initiation of childcare support for graduate students most
in need
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Highlights:
The School continued its “Great Lives in the Law” lecture series,
which features the country’s most distinguished jurists, attorneys
general and other high public officials whose insights about the
law, and about their own careers, are intended to deepen the
understanding of the role of lawyers in our society. Speakers
included Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court
and Julius Chambers, a renowned civil rights activist and lawyer.
Duke Law launched three new clinical programs in 2002 to offer
students hands-on work in various areas of the law, including
community economic development, children’s education and
international human rights.
The School experienced a banner year for its moot court
programs, with students bringing home top honors in a number of
regional and national competitions.
Appointments and Promotions:
● Stuart Benjamin, professor of law, from the University of
Texas School of Law
● Michael Byers, promoted from associate professor to
professor of law
● Doriane Coleman, formerly a senior lecturing fellow,
promoted to tenure-track professor
● Arti Rai, professor of law, from the University of
Pennsylvania Law School
● Barak Richman, assistant professor of law, formerly a law
clerk in Providence, RI with the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the First Circuit
● Lawrence Zelenak, professor of law, from Columbia Law
School
● Tom Hadzor, associate dean for external relations, from
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
● Bruce Elvin, assistant dean for career services, from
Heidrick & Struggles in New York City
School statistics:
The student body (JD) consisted of 346 men and 305 women
from 47 states and 16 foreign countries.
Major gifts:
● The Duke Endowment gave $200,000 to the Children's
Education Law Clinic, a clinical program of Duke Law
School that provides free legal services to low-income
children and their parents in matters relating to the rights
of children in school.
● Jeroll R. Silverberg L'46 established a Charitable Remainder
Trust of $1 million to provide for two full-tuition Mordecai
scholarships to Duke Law students.
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National Institutes of Health grant funding to the School jumped
by 20 percent during fiscal year 2002, giving Duke the highest
rate of growth among the nation’s top 15 medical schools.
The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, headed by J. Craig
Venter, and Duke University Medical Center in May announced a
formal collaboration to create the first fully integrated,
comprehensive practice of genomic-based prospective medicine.
The 120,000-square-foot, $41-million "Genome Sciences
Research Building I" opened off Research Drive. The facility
houses the Center for Human Genetics, one of five major centers
in Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.
Following the fatal blood type mismatch that occurred during the
Feb. 7, 2003 heart-lung transplant for Jesica Santillan, Duke
University Hospital implemented additional safeguards for the
organ transplantation process and began a new campaign to
improve patient safety at Duke and nationwide.
Chancellor Ralph Snyderman, MD, delivered the Chair’s Address
at the Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting in
November, calling on member institutions to implement
"prospective health care"--an approach to care that focuses on
individualized health planning, disease prevention and early
intervention.
The Medical Center, the National Institute of Medicine and
Boston’s Community Catalyst received a $3.6 million W.K. Kellogg
Foundation grant to create a national program to increase the
workforce diversity of America's health professions.
In June the Medical Center formally partnered with the National
University of Singapore to establish the Asian country’s first
graduate medical school, which will be based on the curriculum of
Duke University School of Medicine.
Awards and recognition:
Charles B. Hammond, MD, E. C. Hamblen Professor of
Reproductive Biology and Family Planning, received the Leonard
Palumbo, Jr., MD, Faculty Achievement Award for compassionate
patient care and excellence in the mentoring of young physicians.
Samuel Katz, MD, the Wilburt Cornell Davison Professor and
chairman emeritus of pediatrics, received the Sabin Gold Medal
from the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute for his exemplary
contributions to disease prevention, including his role in
developing the measles vaccine.
John Klingensmith, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology, and
James A. Tulsky, MD, associate professor of medicine, each
received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers (PECASE) from President Bush. Klingensmith was
recognized for basic research in developmental biology, while
Tulsky was honored for research exploring quality of care at the
end of life.
Ralph Snyderman, MD, chancellor for health affairs and
president and CEO of Duke University Health System, was elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and also received
the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National
Ethnic Coalition of Organizations for his contributions to medicine.
Jonathan S. Stamler, MD, professor of medicine and
biochemistry and associate investigator, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, received the Ruth and A. Morris Williams, Jr., Faculty
Research Prize for his groundbreaking studies in the field of nitric
oxide biology.
Gary M. Cox, MD, assistant professor of medicine, and Jeffrey
Crawford, MD, professor of medicine, were appointed to the
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.
R. Sanders Williams, MD, dean of the Duke University School of
Medicine, and Debra A. Schwinn, MD, professor of
anesthesiology at Duke, were appointed to the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Faculty and staff appointments:
Leadership appointments:
● Pascal Goldschmidt, MD, chair, Department of Medicine
● Danny O. Jacobs, MD, chair, Department of Surgery
● H. Kim Lyerly, MD, director, Duke Comprehensive Cancer
Center
● Ross McKinney Jr., MD, vice dean for research, School of
Medicine
● James McNamara, MD, chair, Department of
Neurobiology
● Huntington Willard, PhD, director, Institute for Genome
Sciences and Policy
● Jo Rae Wright, PhD, vice dean for basic sciences, School
of Medicine
Endowed professorship appointments:
● Edward C. Halperin, MD, R.J. Reynolds Professor of
Medical Education in the School of Medicine
● Brigid L.M. Hogan, PhD, George Barth Geller Professor
for Research in Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine
● Paul P. Lee, MD, JD, James Pitzer Gills III, M.D. and Joy
Gills Professor of Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine
● Brooks W. McCuen II, MD, Robert Machemer Professor
of Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine
● Christopher B. Newgard, PhD, W. David and Sarah W.
Stedman Professor of Nutrition in the School of Medicine
● Debra A. Schwinn, MD, James B. Duke Professor of
Anesthesiology
● Bruce A. Sullenger, PhD, Joseph W. and Dorothy W.
Beard Professor of Experimental Surgery in the School of
Medicine
New appointments and promotions to the rank of professor: 39
New appointments and promotions to associate professor with
tenure: 33
Other new faculty appointments: 271
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School statistics:
Students:
School of Medicine: 456
PhD Programs in Basic Sciences: 439
Allied Health Programs:
● Physical Therapy: 118
● Physician Assistant: 85
● Pathologist's Assistant: 12
● Clinical Leadership Program (MHS degree): 11
● Clinical Research Program (MHS degree): 52
● Clinical Pastoral Education: 36
● Clinical Psychology internship: 13
● Ophthalmic Medical Technology: 2
Graduate Medical Education: 815 residents and fellows
Faculty: 1,534 (including 899 with MDs, 463 with PhDs, 95 with
MD-PhDs)
Major gifts:
● $6 million from the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of
Asheville, N.C., to establish a new Pediatric Brain Tumor
Foundation Institute at Duke.
● $2 million from the Leon Levine Foundation of Charlotte,
N.C., to establish the Barbara Levine University
Professorship in Cancer Genomics and the Barbara Levine
Breast Cancer Genomics Faculty Research Endowment
Fund.
● $1.8 million from the estate of the late Harriet I. Johnston
of Charlotte, N.C., for unrestricted support for Duke
University Medical Center.
● $1.3 million from Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Johnson of Palm
Beach, Fla., to establish the Richard and Pat Johnson
University Professorship in Cardiovascular Genomics at the
Duke School of Medicine.
● $1.2 million from the Children's Miracle Network to support
various programs within Duke Children's.
● $1 million from Dr. and Mrs. W. Lester Brooks, Jr., MD, of
Charlotte, N.C., to establish the W. Lester Brooks, Jr.,
Professorship in Rheumatology at the Duke School of
Medicine.
● $1 million from Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cless of Northbrook, Ill.,
to establish the Bryan Cless Brain Tumor Research Fund at
the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and $100,000 to
the Harris-Silverman Brain Tumor Endowment.
● $1 million from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cullather of Richmond,
Va., to establish the Cullather Brain Tumor Research Fund.
● $1 million from Mr. Oscar W. Ellis and Ms. Anne M. Colville
of Bettendorf, Ia., to establish the Oscar W. Ellis and Anne
M. Colville Brain Tumor Fund.
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Two School of Nursing graduate programs were ranked in the top
10 nationally by U.S. News and World Report. Gerontology ranked
eighth, and the nurse anesthetist program, which graduated its
first class in 2003, ranked sixth.
The Duke University Board of Trustees gave preliminary approval
to the School of Nursing’s plan to construct a new building
adjacent to Duke Clinic and adjoining the current facility.
Four faculty members traveled to the conflict-ravaged island of
Cyprus under a U.S. State Department grant. The Duke nurses
brought 12 Turkish and 12 Greek nurses together for a two-week
workshop on leadership training, teambuilding and grant writing.
The School’s bachelor’s and master’s degree programs were
reviewed by the Commission on Collegiate Education in Nursing
and given full approval with no recommendations for changes.
The Nurse Anesthetist Program was reviewed by the Council on
Accreditation of Nurse Anesthetists Programs and also given full
approval with no recommendations.
Debra Brandon, PhD, RN, published research in the Journal of
Pediatrics showing that exposing babies born before 31 weeks of
gestation to cycled light helps them grow faster.
Awards and recognition:
Marva Mizell Price, DrPH, RN, FAAN, assistant professor and
director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program, was inducted
as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in October 2002;
Ruth A. Anderson, PhD, RN, associate professor, was elected a
Fellow and will be inducted into the Academy in October 2003.
Faculty and staff appointments:
● Julie Barraso, RN, PhD, ANP, CS; assistant professor and
director, Adult Nurse Practitioner Program
● Joan E. Dodgson, PhD, RN, IBCLC, assistant professor
● Christina C. Hendrix, DNS, CFNP, CCRN, assistant
professor
● Elizabeth E. Hill, RN, DNSc, assistant professor
● Michelle H. Martin, PhD, assistant professor
● Judith K. Payne, PhD, RN, AOCN, CS, assistant professor
● Carla Gene Rapp, PhD, RN, CRRN, assistant professor
● Queen Utley-Smith, RN, EdD, assistant professor
● Steve Talbert, RN, PhD, assistant professor and director,
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program
School statistics:
In the academic year 2003, 317 students (10 percent males and
15 percent minorities) were enrolled in the MSN program. Thirty-
eight students (15 percent males and 13 percent minorities) were
enrolled in the A-BSN program.
Major gifts:
A $50,000 gift from GlaxoSmithKline supported the creation of
Bedside Clinical Direction in Long-Term Care, an innovative pilot
program aimed at improving care for nursing home residents.
A gift of $84,000 from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation will
provide scholarship funds to students in the A-BSN and MSN
programs.
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