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(Twin Cities Business, July 5) The University of Minnesota Nursing School is furthering its entrepreneurial direction by teaming up with a digital health business incubator to commercialize its prototype smartphone app for expectant parents of babies with heart defects.

The American Public Health Association (APHA) awarded its 2019 Junior Investigator Award to Assistant Professor Melissa Horning, PhD, RN, PHN.  The Junior Investigator Award is selected through blind review by the association’s research committee and honors an early-career (NIH definition) Public Health Nursing Section member's work since completing a doctoral education.

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The School of Nursing Alumni Society named the recipients of its annual awards – Rising Star, Distinguished Alumni Humanitarian and Excellence in Innovation – at the All School Reunion in April.

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Associate Professor Carolyn Porta was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Additional inductees are Kuei-Min Chen, Helga Jonsdottir, Barbara Tomczyk, Martha Hughesdon Turner and Richard Westphal.

Retired Brid. Gen. Clara Adams-Ender was inducted into the U.S. Army Hall of Fame by the Army Women’s Foundation. Adams-Ender, who earned a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Minnesota in 1969, rose from staff nurse in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps to chief of the Army Nurse Corps, commanding 22,000 nurses. She was the first Army nurse to command as a general officer when she assumed command of Fort Belvoir.

Nathan Grumdahl’s work at Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis requires more than Band-Aids and ice packs

Two University of Minnesota Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students were elected to statewide leadership positions within the Minnesota Student Nurses’ Association (MSNA). Junior Jon Nghiem was elected MSNA director of communications and sophomore Julianne Pekala was elected Breakthrough to Nursing Committee chair.

To better prepare for leadership positions, 14 School of Nursing faculty participated in Faculty Leads, a program developed by the University’s Office of Human Resources Leadership and Talent Development team.

John J. Spillane, of Wayzata, received  the University of Minnesota School of Nursing’s Richard Olding Beard Award today. The award, presented by Dean Connie White Delaney, recognizes a non-nurse whose foresight, wisdom and advocacy for the nursing profession have led to better health care for all. 

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Dean Connie White Delaney was named president-elect of the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR). FNINR provides resources to support nursing research and advance the mission of the National Institute of Nursing Research.