General Information
CNHS FacultY Accomplishments
Most recent publications, presentations and awards by our faculty.
As published in the University
Reporter, Nursing Spectrum
& Advance for Nurses
In the News:
Avery Faigenbaum, Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise
Science and Physical Education, was interviewed on CNN Headline News on
Aug 14 to discuss Physical education and childhood obesity.
Also, he was cited recently in the Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine
for his work in the area of youth strength training.
Honors/Awards Announcements:
Avery Faigenbaum, Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. This organization is the worldwide authority on strength and conditioning with over 26,000 members.
Grants:
Dr. Kyle McInnis, CNHS ESPE Professor and a co-investigator received a $150,000 grant from the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center for a two-year research study. The purpose of the study is to investigate weight control, physical activity and cancer risk reduction among racially diverse women in an urban setting. The study responds to what the National Cancer Institute has described as an urgent need to develop, test, and implement cancer prevention interventions that promote physical activity and behavioral weight control strategies, particularly among ethnically diverse and low-income populations. This project is one element of a new and growing collaboration between the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) and UMass Boston. (Dr. Jacqueline Fawcett has also been a key participant in this collaboration). Kyle’s study is designed to provide pilot data for a joint U56 RFA or R01 proposal to be submitted by DF/HCC and UMB.
Dr. Laurie Milliken, ESPE Asst. Professor has received a $100,000 from the NIH for a study on “Factors Affecting the Bone Response and Non-Response” She’ll explore factors that may explain why some women respond to an osteogenic therapy and others do not by analyzing data from the Bone Estrogen Strength Training Study database, which includes data from more than 250 women. Laurie originally submitted her proposal to the National Institute for Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). Her proposal received a high score and the NIAMS program officer thought so highly of the proposal that she nominated it for a Shannon Award (R55). The nomination was approved, and funding will be available in September.
Bringing the Best to Nursing!
The College of Nursing and Health Sciences has been awarded a $728,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration for a three-year project titled "Bringing the Best to Nursing (BBN)" The goal of BBN is to recruit, enroll, retain and graduate 80 nursing students who represent minority populations or are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Professor Linda Dumas is the project director.
BBN is predicated on developing a culture of community that includes following components:
- Intensive faculty advising
- Community-based mentoring
- Personal and professional management strategies
- Peer to peer support and tutoring
- Effective communications, and
- Continual student feedback
BBN also includes a strong technological component. Each participant will have use of a computer and will interact online with other participants, faculty and staff. Online tutoring will be available. In addition, some participants will gain leadership experience by assisting with efforts to recruit prospective nursing students from the Dorchester public schools.
The College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Roxbury Community College have been awarded a $15,000 grant from the "Promise of Nursing for Massachusetts Nursing School Grant Program" to fund a joint project titled "The Future Colleagues Collaborative." Due to a statewide shortage of nursing faculty, funding was made available to support projects that would increase the teaching capacity of nursing programs. The purpose of the UMB/RCC project is to interest participants in a career in nursing education by offering them a mentored teaching experience. Participants will be two RNs s of color who are graduates of the RCC associate degree nursing program. While enrolled in UMass Boston's RN-BS program, the two RNs will spend one semester at RCC serving as clinical lab assistants, and one semester at UMass Boston serving as peer tutors. During both semesters, students will work with faculty mentors to design learning experiences for undergraduate students and to observe faculty activities such as curriculum committee meetings and clinical conferences. CNHS interim dean Kristine Alster is the project director.
Publications:
Dr. Laurel E. Radwin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing, had her research featured in the Spring 2003 issue of the Boston Oncology Nurses' Society Bulletin.
Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, FAAN
• Fawcett, J. (2003). Theory and practice: A conversation with Marilyn
E. Parker. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 131-136.
• Fawcett, J. (2003). Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory:
Actual and potential sources for evidence-based practice. Self-Care and
Dependent-Care Nursing, 11(1), 11-16.
• Fawcett, J. (2003). Critiquing contemporary nursing knowledge:
A dialogue. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 271-276.
Presentations:
Dr. Laurel E. Radwin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing, presented a poster, “Do Cancer Patients’ Characteristics Make a Difference in Their Perceptions of the Quality of Patient-Centered Nursing Care?,” selected via refereed review, at the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy Annual Research Meeting, June 2003, in Nashville, TN.