Academics
Altering our DNA destiny
May 17, 2016
NIH selects nurses to train at acclaimed genetics institute Everyone will fall risk to some sort of health condition or disease at some point in their lifetime. Whether it is high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease or Alzheimer’s, if your mom, dad, grandparent or another relative had it, the chances are higher that you might someday receive the same diagnosis. That’s because genetics, […]
Making a world of difference
May 17, 2016
Nursing students travel the globe to help patients in need Every year since 2006, faculty, students and graduates from the School of Nursing leave their families, work and school to travel to remote villages in Guatemala to provide medical and surgical nursing care to the indigenous Guatemalan Mayans. All of these volunteers pay their own way. While the distance between […]