Research
Making a Difference for Small-Town Care
“Just because you’re from a small town doesn’t mean you deserve less.” That mindset has motivated alumna Ashley Tupper (MSN ’14) throughout her nursing career, leading her to the U-M School of Nursing and her very own family practice in Newcastle, Wyoming.
Tupper grew up in the small farming community of Shepherd, Michigan. Her parents were health care professionals and helped Tupper acknowledge her ambitions at an early age. Throughout high school, she took night classes at Mid Michigan College in order to enter the nursing program as soon as she graduated.
U-M School of Nursing student-led hackathon awards $7,250 in financial support for innovation in health care
The inaugural Innovate 4 Change hackathon, the University of Michigan’s first hackathon hosted by nursing students, concluded on October 24 with five interdisciplinary student teams being awarded a total of $7,250 in financial support to move their innovation projects forward.
Black COVID patients: Less medical follow-up, longer return-to-work delays, more hospital readmissions
African American COVID-19 patients had the least physician follow-up and the longest delays in returning to work, a University of Michigan study found.
U-M School of Nursing professor discusses women’s bladder health
Many parents still believe boys are better, more competitive at sports than girls
Female Olympian handballers fined for playing in shorts instead of bikini bottoms. A female Paralympian told by a championship official that her shorts were “too short and inappropriate.” Olympic women gymnasts, tired of feeling sexualized, opted for full-length unitards instead of bikini-cut leotards.
“Women athletes’ attire is constantly scrutinized,” said Philip Veliz of the University of Michigan School of Nursing. “No one has ever said that a baseball or football player’s pants are too tight.”
U-M nursing, law collaboration aims to dispel myths about human trafficking
Most people have heard of human trafficking, but few can define it. Even experts in law enforcement and academia can have a hard time quantifying the problem.
Pool of retired and nonworking emergency nurses could be recruited in a disaster
U-M Nursing faculty partner with Henry Ford to bring a community approach to cancer research
Community engagement isn’t common practice in cancer research. When the Henry Ford Cancer Institute wanted to connect with their Detroit community on research to dramatically improve the representation of African Americans and other minorities in cancer clinical trials, they turned to experts at the University of Michigan, including leading nurse scientists from the School of Nursing.
Assistant Professor Marie-Anne Rosemberg receives catalyst grant for project to protect nail salon workers
A new project led by U-M School of Nursing Assistant Professor Marie-Anne Sanon Rosemberg, Ph.D., RN, has been selected to receive funding through a Graham Sustainability Institute catalyst grant, which provides support for small-scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary
The Art of Queer Health Sciences featured in new exhibition led by U-M School of Nursing staff member
“If our work as researchers took up space in the same way art does, that could help the people we work with feel seen.
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