Research

“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.

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.

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.

If your bladder leaks when you cough, sneeze or laugh, or every time you come home–-even if you left 10 minutes ago––you’re not alone.

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.”

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled an acute, countrywide need for registered nurses, and this underscored the need for clear staffing plans and an assessment of what, exactly, the registered nursing workforce looks like.

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.

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

“If our work as researchers took up space in the same way art does, that could help the people we work with feel seen.