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Members of our U-M School of Nursing family took to social media to congratulate the Class of 2020, honor nurses on the front lines or simply show support for one another during challenging times. 

Nursing students are known to have some of the busiest schedules, but University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) Honors Student Kathryn Parkhurst isn’t letting that deter her from taking on extra challenges to benefit her future career and patients. She’s following an uncommon academic path by pursuing a minor in business administration.

“Nurses are in closest proximity to the problems patients face and are well positioned to deliver and implement solutions,” said Nancy P. Hanrahan, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, as she kicked off the Brouse Lecture at University of Michigan School of Nursing’s Research Day: Innovation at the interface of knowledge development and equitable care. Research Day is a celebrated annual event now in its ninth year.

More than 200 students, faculty and researchers came together for the University of Michigan School of Nursing's eighth annual Research Day.

Mohamad Baydoun, a University of Michigan doctoral candidate, recently won a $5,000 research award from the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Foundation. ONS will fund Baydoun’s dissertation research on “Yoga for persistent fatigue in the survivors of bone marrow transplantation (BMT).”

She didn’t know it at the time, of course, but her own birth would inspire Eleanore (Maitland) Higginson’s career path and an incredible gift to the University of Michigan.

“I was a twin but my brother was stillborn, and my mother barely survived herself because of the terrible care she received,” says Ellie. “As I grew older, I couldn’t help but wonder what kind of difference better care could have made. The outcome could have been entirely different.”

Graduates of the University of Michigan School of Nursing are making an impact in their own communities and around the world.