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Professor Susan O’Conner-Von, PhD, RN, was named a recipient of the 2018-2019 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education by the University of Minnesota. This honor is awarded to exceptional candidates nominated by colleges in their quest to identify excellence in graduate and professional education.

Two School of Nursing faculty are being honored by the Women’s Health Leadership Trust. Professor Carolyn Porta, PhD, RN, SANE-A, FAAN, received the Leadership Award, which recognizes women who are viewed by their peers, superiors and business partners as exceptional leaders by being imaginative, creative, resourceful, encouraging and results-oriented.

Assistant Professor Rozina Bhimani, PhD, DNP, APRN,FNP-BC,  CNE, has been awarded a grant from the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses’ Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation for her research, Effects of Mobilization Patterns on Spasticity Symptom Cluster: Understanding Functional Outcomes.

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

The eighth edition of Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Nursing won an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, placing third in the Adult Primary Care category. The book was edited by Professor Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAHA, FAAN, Associate Professor Mary Fran Tracy, PhD, RN, CCNS, and Professor Emeritus Mariah Snyder, PhD, RN.

Margaret Ann Newman, PhD, RN, FAAN who served as a nurse theorist and professor at the University of Minnesota from 1984 to 1996, died Dec. 18 at the age of 85. She is widely known for her theory of health as expanding consciousness and published the earliest primer on developing nursing theory, Theory Development in Nursing.