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Year of the Nurse

The World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO), designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse to advance nurses’ vital position in transforming healthcare around the world. It also is in honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.

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5/18/2020 Featured Story

Nursing Students Practice Skills Via Videoconferencing

Nursing Students Practice Skills Via Videoconferencing

Students practice assessment, critical thinking and communication skills via videoconferencing with the help of student actors.

5/18/2020 Featured Story
4/3/2020 Featured Story

UML Donates Protective Gear to Health Care and Emergency Response Workers

UML Donates Protective Gear to Health Care and Emergency Response Workers

The Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences and the Kennedy College of Sciences donated face shields, masks, gowns, eyewear, gloves and more to local health and first responders on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus.

4/3/2020 Featured Story
3/25/2020 Lowell Sun In The News

A Need Arises for Masks, and Local Makers Respond to Coronavirus Crisis

A Need Arises for Masks, and Local Makers Respond to Coronavirus Crisis

Meredith Ritze, a registered nurse who works in the emergency department at Lowell General Hospital and soon-to-graduate nurse practitioner from UMass Lowell, is thankful for the community support her request has prompted.

3/25/2020 Lowell Sun In The News
3/18/2020 Featured Story

Public Health Professor: COVID-19 Infections in China are Stabilizing

Public Health Professor: COVID-19 Infections in China are Stabilizing

Epidemiologist and Public Health Prof. David Kriebel, who is reviewing data as it becomes available on the outbreak of COVID-19, sees cautiously encouraging trends on the containment of the virus emerging in China.

3/18/2020 Featured Story
2/13/2020 Featured Story

A, B, C, D: Three Quadruplets Come to Campus

A, B, C, D: Three Quadruplets Come to Campus

Three of the Whitcomb quadruplets chose UMass Lowell, each for their own reasons. But they’re happy to be here together.

2/13/2020 Featured Story
2/3/2020 Featured Story

King Celebration Recognizes Community Service

King Celebration Recognizes Community Service

This year’s winners of the university's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Awards have served the community through theater, community health research and volunteer work with homeless people and at-risk high school students.

2/3/2020 Featured Story
10/9/2019 Featured Story

New Nursing Dean Reflects on the Art and Science of the Profession

New Nursing Dean Reflects on the Art and Science of the Profession

New Dean Leslie Neal-Boylan shares her vision for the nursing profession and the Solomont School of Nursing.

10/9/2019 Featured Story
5/29/2019 Featured Story

Research Seeks to Improve Sleep Patterns of Night Shift Workers

Research Seeks to Improve Sleep Patterns of Night Shift Workers

Sleep disruption can lead to depression, cardiovascular disease and accidents on the job or at home. To combat these issues, Asst. Prof. Yuan Zhang of the Solomont School of Nursing is partnering on a $1.7 million four-year National Institute of Aging grant to study strategies that help older night shift workers sleep soundly.

5/29/2019 Featured Story
5/15/2019 Department News

UMass Lowell and Thai University Build Nursing Collaborations

UMass Lowell and Thai University Build Nursing Collaborations

Four administrators from the School of Nursing at Naresuan University, Thailand, visited UMass Lowell on April 26 to celebrate the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and discuss plans for collaboration.

5/15/2019 Department News
5/15/2019 Featured Story

Healthy Aging Forum Features Age-friendly Initiatives and Workforce Health Research

Healthy Aging Forum Features Age-friendly Initiatives and Workforce Health Research

At UMass Lowell’s Center for Gerontology Research and Partnerships’ forum, speakers shared their latest research on aging workers in the workplace, age-friendly initiatives and asthma in older adults.

5/15/2019 Featured Story
5/9/2019 Featured Story

Symposium Showcases Student Research and Community Projects

Symposium Showcases Student Research and Community Projects

More than 280 students finished the academic year by presenting their work at the annual Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium. Many of the students’ research projects aimed to solve or engage real-world problems, from public health to violent crime.

5/9/2019 Featured Story
3/29/2019 Featured Story

Nursing Students Target 'Vaping is Cool' with Outreach, Education

Nursing Students Target 'Vaping is Cool' with Outreach, Education

Multiple groups of nursing students educated teens in Dracut, Billerica and Tewksbury about the health risks of vaping.

3/29/2019 Featured Story
10/11/2018 Featured Story

Nursing Turns 50, Honors 50

Nursing Turns 50, Honors 50

The Solomont School of Nursing celebrated the 50th anniversary of the nursing program by recognizing 50 nursing leaders at an event on Oct. 4.

10/11/2018 Featured Story
9/6/2018 Department News

CPH-New Launches New Online Continuing Education Tool for Nurses

CPH-New Launches New Online Continuing Education Tool for Nurses

The Center for Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) has launched an online continuing education program to help nurses prevent musculoskeletal injuries in clinical care settings.

9/6/2018 Department News
5/11/2018 Featured Story

‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination

‘Invitation to Innovation’ Celebrates Student Ingenuity, Imagination

Invitation to Innovation, which was held May 4 at the Tsongas Center, was attended by more than 2,000 schoolchildren, educators and community and corporate partners.

5/11/2018 Featured Story
5/4/2018 Department News

Big Data Project Receives $10K IDEA Grant

Big Data Project Receives $10K IDEA Grant

An interdisciplinary team led by Manning School Assoc. Prof. Asil Oztekin and Zuckerberg College Assoc. Prof. Margaret Knight received a $10,000 IDEA grant from the Office of the Provost to collaborate with the Lowell Community Health Center and use Big Data analytics to model health outcomes for risk groups.

5/4/2018 Department News
2/28/2018 Department News

New Business/Health Sciences Collaboration Awards First Mini-Grants

New Business/Health Sciences Collaboration Awards First Mini-Grants

Three interdisciplinary faculty research projects were selected to receive mini-grants as part of a new collaborative initiative between the Manning School of Business and the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences.

2/28/2018 Department News
12/12/2017 Featured Story

Nursing Alum Finds Calling, Gives Back

Nursing Alum Finds Calling, Gives Back

An oncology nurse for more than 30 years, Donna Manning and her husband Rob established an endowed faculty chair nursing position in the Solomont School of Nursing.

12/12/2017 Featured Story
9/18/2017 Featured Story

Faculty Teaching Methods Raise the Grade

Faculty Teaching Methods Raise the Grade

Faculty Teaching Circle Fellows integrate innovative teaching methods in classes to help students succeed.

9/18/2017 Featured Story
8/18/2017 Featured Story

Co-op Scholars Explore Infinity – and Beyond

Co-op Scholars Explore Infinity – and Beyond

Every year, more than 200 first-year students receive merit-based, $4,000 Co-op Scholarships in their acceptance packages. The scholarships pay them to do research with a faculty member, intern at a community agency or study abroad.

8/18/2017 Featured Story
6/26/2017 Featured Story

Nursing Students Break Down Language Barriers in Spain

Nursing Students Break Down Language Barriers in Spain

Led by Asst. Prof. Valerie King, 13 students from the Solomont School of Nursing spent two weeks in Cádiz, Spain, learning Spanish medical terminology.

6/26/2017 Featured Story
5/18/2017 Press Release

UMass Lowell Unveils Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

UMass Lowell Unveils Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

UMass Lowell officially dedicated its College of Health Sciences to alumnus Roy Zuckerberg in recognition of his support for the university and its students.

5/18/2017 Press Release
5/17/2017 Featured Story

Elder Affairs Champion Urges Students to Get Involved in Health Policy

Elder Affairs Champion Urges Students to Get Involved in Health Policy

Alice Bonner ‘89, who spoke on campus to students, staff, faculty and community agency representatives at the recent third annual Healthy Aging-Living Well Forum, urged students to get involved in health policy.

5/17/2017 Featured Story
4/28/2017 Eagle Tribune In The News

UMass Lowell Names the School of Nursing

UMass Lowell Names the School of Nursing

UMass Lowell recently celebrated the naming of its School of Nursing and the first-ever endowed professorship in the nearly 50-year history of the program.

4/28/2017 Eagle Tribune In The News
4/27/2017 Press Release

UMass Lowell Celebrates Naming of Susan and Alan Solomont School of Nursing

UMass Lowell Celebrates Naming of Susan and Alan Solomont School of Nursing

UMass Lowell dedicated the Susan and Alan Solomont School of Nursing and announced the Donna Manning Endowed Chair for Nursing at a ceremony with more than 100 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends held at the Health and Social Sciences Building.

4/27/2017 Press Release
1/4/2017 Featured Story

Students Find Collaborative Care is the Best Care

Students Find Collaborative Care is the Best Care

A new “Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning” course gives students from five different majors — nursing, medical laboratory science, nutritional sciences, exercise physiology and public health — experience working in teams at Summit ElderCare in Lowell.

1/4/2017 Featured Story
12/13/2016 Department News

Nursing Assistants Need Quality Sleep to Provide Quality Care

Nursing Assistants Need Quality Sleep to Provide Quality Care

Research conducted by Asst. Prof. of Nursing Yuan Zhang shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect both nursing assistants and their patients. The results were published in the January issue of Geriatric Nursing.

12/13/2016 Department News
11/7/2016 Featured Story

Improving Health Starts Here

Improving Health Starts Here

From improving rehabilitation for stroke survivors to reducing inflammation through diet in older adults, faculty members in the College of Health Sciences are conducting studies that have the potential to make a powerful impact on people’s lives.

11/7/2016 Featured Story
8/2/2016 Featured Story

Nursing Students Study in China

Nursing Students Study in China

Eight nursing students and two faculty members traveled to China on a cross-cultural exchange experience.

8/2/2016 Featured Story
5/11/2016 Featured Story

Salute to the Class of 2016

Salute to the Class of 2016

As they prepare for commencement, some of our seniors reflect on how they found their place at UMass Lowell and what legacy they’d like to leave behind.

5/11/2016 Featured Story
5/8/2016 MetroWest Daily News In The News

Mother, Daughter to Graduate on Same Day

Mother, Daughter to Graduate on Same Day

Marcelle Durrenberger and her mom Jocelyne of Hudson will be graduating together from UMass Lowell May 14.

5/8/2016 MetroWest Daily News In The News
3/18/2016 Featured Story

Club Breaks Barriers, Opens Dialogue

Club Breaks Barriers, Opens Dialogue

Members of the Disable the Label club work to unite people with unique challenges and to welcome students with disabilities through events and outreach.

3/18/2016 Featured Story
2/25/2016 Featured Story

College of Health Sciences Rallies for Hockey, Health and Fun

College of Health Sciences Rallies for Hockey, Health and Fun

College of Health Sciences students designed interactive, fun activities to educate kids about health before the College of Health Sciences Alumni Night with the River Hawks hockey game.

2/25/2016 Featured Story
2/9/2016 Featured Story

Living-Learning Communities Help Students Find Their Niche

Living-Learning Communities Help Students Find Their Niche

Living-learning communities help students academically and socially, increasing retention and student success.

2/9/2016 Featured Story
12/2/2015 Featured Story

Two Heads are Better Than One

Two Heads are Better Than One

Interprofessional education in the College of Health Sciences teaches students how to work effectively in teams so that patients are more likely to receive safe, quality care.

12/2/2015 Featured Story
8/17/2015 Featured Story

Students Take Charge in Health Sciences Internships

Students Take Charge in Health Sciences Internships

Health Sciences students challenged themselves this summer by working in laboratories, nursing homes and exercise facilities locally and across the country – all to help them gain experience and make an impact.

8/17/2015 Featured Story
6/19/2015 Featured Story

Theatre Students Act Out for Nursing Education

Theatre Students Act Out for Nursing Education

Theatre arts students took on the role of patients to provide nursing students a safe environment to learn communication techniques that will help them deliver quality care.

6/19/2015 Featured Story
4/16/2015 Boston Globe In The News

Professor Named State’s Elder Affairs Head

Professor Named State’s Elder Affairs Head

Alice Bonner, ’89 MS GNP Alumna, and 2012 University of Massachusetts Lowell Alumni Award Honoree, appointed as Secretary of Massachusetts Elder Affairs.

4/16/2015 Boston Globe In The News
2/18/2015 Department News

School of Nursing Earns Recognition

School of Nursing Earns Recognition

The School of Nursing has been selected as a member of the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence.

2/18/2015 Department News

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