NUHP Seminars

Each semester, the Nursing Undergraduate Honors Program sponsors Honors Seminars, in which faculty (in the Fall semester) and students (in the Spring semester) present their research to the School of Nursing during a lunchtime round table.

Sample of previously offered NUHP Seminars:

2011-2012

• Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN
  Topic: "Feminism-driven Internet research on gender and ethnic differences in the health/illness experience."

2010-2011

• Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH.
  Topic: "Autism and vaccines: How do we communicate risk?"
• NUHP Senior Scholars' Presentations

2009-2010

• Joseph Libonati, PhD.
  Topic: "Of Mice and Men, Studying the Cardiac Adaptations to Exercise"
• Maureen George, PhD, RN, AE-C.
  Topic: "Self-Management Preferences in Asthma"
• Matthew McHugh, PhD, JD, MPH, CRNP, RN.
  Topic: "Health Policy Evaluation: Process, Application, and Opportunities"
• Joseph I. Boullata, PharmD, RPh, BCNSP.
  Topic: "A Clinician Educator's Research Program"
• Helen Zheng, NUHP Senior Scholar.
  Topic: "Walkerizing the Pennsylvania Hospital: the Legacy of Lucy Walker, a Pioneer in Nursing Education"

2008-2009

• Terri Lipman, PhD, CRNP, FAAN.
  Topic: “Racial Disparities in Children with Diabetes”
• Therese Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP
  Topic: “Pathways to Violence: Science, Policy, & Politics”
• NUHP Senior Scholars' Presentation

2007-2008

• Julie Fairman, PhD, FAAN, RN.
  Topic: Her recent book on the history of the nurse practitioner movement in the United States
• Martha Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN.
  Topic: “Like a Kid in a Candy Store,” supporting the practice of pediatric critical care
• Kristen Ashbahian, NUHP Scholar.
  Topic: “The State of Medical Care in Post-Soviet Armenia: My Observations as a Nursing Student”
   

2006-2007

• Marilyn Sommers, PhD, RN, FAAN.
  Topic: "Improving the Forensic Rape Exam: When Clinical Questions Lead to a Program of Research"
• Barbra Mann Wall, PhD.
  Topic: "Disaster nursing, her research on hospitals, and women’s roles within hospitals"