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. 

NUHP Scholars embody the school’s mission, “Care to Change the World.” The Nursing Undergraduate Honors Program provides a forum for highly motivated students to enhance their Penn education and graduate having challenged their own boundaries to achieve greater social awareness and capacity to reflect on their roles as nurses to achieve change.

Vision Statement

Intellectual curiosity and academic risk taking promote responsibility for a larger intellectual world and foster journeys of becoming more than you imagined as a person and a nurse. NUHP Scholars prepare to question the status quo and contribute to changing community, society, and the world.

Program Components

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. 

Honors Courses

NUHP Scholars complete a special curriculum of small discussion based and interdisciplinary seminars throughout their experience.  For details, review the NUHP Courses list.
 

Honors Project

NUHP Scholars are provided with the resources and support to facilitate their development as researchers, scholars and leaders across campus and the country.  The NUHP experience culminates with an independent research, reflective practice, service or policy project within the student's area of interest.  Honors Projects must satisfy the following requirements:

• Must be the Scholar's independent work, completed under the mentorship of one or more faculty.
• Must be developed from the Scholar's original idea and initiative that extends the Scholar's current knowledge, capacity, and expectations. It may not be an extension of the faculty mentor's research or of work the Scholar has completed in another context.
• Must meet all relevant professional and ethical standards in the design, implementation, and synthesis of the project.
• Must be formally presented during N386 to gain feedback from peers and NUHP Faculty Director and Program Subcommittee.
• Must be completed by the beginning of the final semester in the undergraduate program.

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

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.