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College of Nursing Announces LINE Fund Scholarship Recipients

The 40 UF Accelerated BSN students selected for the Linking Industry to Nursing Education, or LINE Fund scholarships, were recently announced.The LINE Fund program was established in 2022 by the Florida Legislature to help alleviate the state’s nursing shortage. ABSN students are not eligible for traditional scholarships…

UF Nursing’s Hwayoung Cho Receives $500,000 NIH Award

UF College of Nursing faculty member Hwayoung Cho, PhD, recently received an NIH grant for more than $500,000 for a four-year study examining disparities in the risk of dementia among people living with HIV aged 50 and older. The study aims to develop an early warning system to identify those at high…

UF Nursing’s Hwayoung Cho Receives almost $700,000 NIH Grant

UF Nursing faculty member Hwayoung Cho, PhD, recently received a multiyear National Institutes of Health grant. UF College of Nursing faculty member Hwayoung Cho, PhD, along with Yiyang Liu, MPH, PhD, of the College of Public Health and Health Professions, recently received a $683,625 NIH grant for a three-year study into…

Two UF Nursing PhD Students Chosen as Jonas Scholars

UF College of Nursing PhD students Magali Rezende de Carvalho, MSN, APRN, and Hyehwan Yang, MSN, APRN, were recently selected as Jonas Scholars UF College of Nursing PhD students Magali Rezende de Carvalho, MSN, APRN, and Hyehwan Yang, MSN, APRN, were recently selected as Jonas Scholars for the 2024-2026 cohort…

UF Nursing Backed Demonstration Project Receives International Attention

Randy Brian, left, Sandra Citty and Cindy Westbrook look over wound care products at UF Health Shands Hospital recently. The three were part of a research project funded by UF Health and the UF College of Nursing to study wound care treatments for ECMO sites that have saved lives. In…

UF DNP Student Tree Planting Honors U.S. Surgeon General

While receiving the U.S. Surgeon General’s Medallion in 2023 for his efforts during the pandemic, Kevin Cho Tipton, a student in UF’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program, extended an invitation to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to attend a tree planting ceremony in South Florida. Tipton wanted to plant a…

Star Booker Receives $1 Million NIH Grant for Pain Study

Staja “Star” Booker, PhD, RN, recently received a $1 million National Institutes of Health grant investigating a pain self-management intervention that encourages behavioral changes in older Black participants. The study, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, is titled: “Testing the Pain Relief of Musculoskeletal Conditions…

Lyon Selected UF Research Foundation Professor 

The College of Nursing’s Debra Lyon, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAAN, was selected as a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor for 2024. “UFRF Professors earn significant grants, publish in the leading journals in their field, hold university leadership positions and contribute to the university…

Sandra Citty Receives Prestigious Secretary of Veterans Affairs Award

On May 1, Sandra Citty was in Washington D.C., receiving the prestigious 2024 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Award for Excellence in Nursing in the Nurse/Expanded Role category. Citty’s remarkable contributions at the Gainesville Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Centers within the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System have advanced the fields…

Congratulations to the UF College of Nursing Spring Class 2024

More than one thousand family members and friends packed the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on May 3 for the traditional UF College of Nursing Pinning and Recognition Ceremony.  The pin ceremony welcomes the recipient to the nursing profession and signifies the wearer has completed the rigorous…