The University Of Texas At Austin: What Starts Here Changes The World
The School of Nursing
 
 

2003 News

News Briefs - February 3rd, 2003

Dr. Sue GrobeSchool of Nursing Professor Honored by Swedish University

Dr. Sue Grobe, who holds the La Quinta Motor Inns, Inc. Centennial Professorship in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, will receive an honorary doctorate from Orebro University in Sweden. She will be honored and receive a laurel wreath Feb. 8 at the university's Annual Academic Awards Day. Grobe was a visiting professor in spring 2002 at Orebro University assisting with the planning and implementation of a doctoral program in healthcare and nursing informatics.

Southwest Partnership Center for Nursing Research to Hold Open House Feb. 20

The recently created Southwest Partnership Center for Nursing Research on Health Disparities will hold an open house Feb. 20 from 3 to 4 p.m. in Room 4.176 of the School of Nursing. The event is open to the public.

SWPC LogoSpeakers include University of Texas at Austin President Larry R. Faulkner, Provost Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Vice President for Research Juan Sanchez, Dean Dolores Sands and Dr. Lynn Rew. Rew received a five-year, $1.5 million grant to establish an exploratory research center focusing on health inequalities in rural, low-income, Mexican-American and American-Indian populations. The center is a partnership with the nursing faculty at New Mexico State University. Funding is from the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health. Efforts at the center, according to Rew, will concentrate on expanding the preparation of nurses from minority populations and expanding research aimed at improving health and health care in these underserved populations.

In addition to Rew, other university faculty involved in the grant include Drs. Lorraine Walker, David Kahn, Sharon Horner, Alexa Stuifbergen, Heather Becker, Shirley Laffrey, Kathy May, Cindy Conger and Alexandra Garcia.

Dr. Tanya Sudia-RobinsonSchool of Nursing Sponsors Lecture on Ethics and Parental Collaboration in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

The George and Diana Sharpe Perinatal Lecture will be held Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. in the Frank Erwin Center Reception Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.

Tanya Sudia-Robinson, Ph.D., R.N., a research fellow at the Center for Ethics at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. , will present a lecture on "Ethics & Parental Collaboration in the NICU End-Of-Life Care." A reception will follow at 3 p.m.