The Nursing Undergraduate Honors Program (NUHP) seeks to foster the development of the next generation of nurse achievers – scholars, leaders, and researchers – through intellectual rigor, academic excellence, and outstanding achievement.

Faculty Mentorship

NUHP links honors students with faculty mentors who are among the leading scholars and researchers, providing role models who are accomplished scholars and leaders in the field.

Research Opportunities

NUHP creates an environment that values, supports and fosters scholarship, leadership, and research opportunities for independent and collaborative research in the student’s area of interest.  These research opportunities provide honors students with the resources and support to facilitate their development as researchers, scholars and leaders across campus and the country.

Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships

University Recognition and Visibility
NUHP rewards student accomplishment through recognition and awards in the School of Nursing (SON) and across the Penn campus promoting visibility of the intellectual and scholarly capacity of the SON.  

• Two Provost’s Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program (PURM) Scholars
• One Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Program (SUMR) Finalist
• Scholar published in Geriatric Nursing as an editorial with Dr. Barbara Resnick

Honors Courses

Spring 2010 Honors Courses

Honors courses offered by the School of Nursing include:

NURS318. (GCOS318, HSOC341) Race, Gender, Class and the History of American Health Care. (A). Fairman. For Benjamin Franklin Scholars & Nursing Honors Students.
A product of this course has been accepted for presentation at a national meeting!! Read the abstract here.

NURS338. (GSOC338, NURS638) "Sweet Little Old Ladies and Sandwiched Daughters": Social Images and Issues in our Aging Society. (B) Kagan. Third or fourth year undergraduate students in any major; BFS, JWS, and NUHP students.

NURS339 (GSOC339, HSOC339) "Aging, Beauty and Sexuality": Psycological Gerontology in the 21st Century. (B) Kagan.  Third or fourth year undergraduate students in any major; BFS, JWS, and NUHP students.

Honors 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.  NUHP Scholars are encouraged to attend, and all students, faculty, and staff are invited.  The following is a list of past seminars:

Spring 2007

• Professor 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

Fall 2007

• Professor Julie Fairman, PhD, FAAN, RN.  Topic: Her recent book on the history of the nurse practitioner movement in the United States 

Spring 2008

• Professor 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”

Fall 2008

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

Spring 2009

• NUHP Senior Scholars’ Presentations