University at Buffalo Nursing

11/27/2025

We hope everyone in the UB Nursing community has a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. We are grateful for nurses and all those who support them. Happy Thanksgiving! 💙 🤍

11/26/2025

Mary Carey, director of the Clinical Nursing Research Center at the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital and UBSON alumna, will lead this semester's final installment of our Research Seminar Series on Wednesday, Dec. 3 via Zoom. In "Cardiovascular Nursing, A Program of Research on the ECG," Dr. Carey will present her expertise in ECG monitoring and how it is used to detect cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia and infarction, as well as its use in predicting sudden cardiac death. Register today ↙️
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11/25/2025

Petrina Harrison, a 2025 graduate of our Adult-Gerontology DNP program, exemplifies the power of nurses when they take the lead in research, policy and at the bedside. Harrison's award-winning research on ovarian cancer detection and treatment among women veterans is saving lives. Discover more about her remarkable career as a clinician, researcher and advocate ↙️
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11/24/2025

The Department of Education recently proposed that post-baccalaureate nursing degrees should be recategorized in a manner that would make graduate nursing students only eligible for half the amount of federal loans as graduate medical students. Nurses are the backbone of health care in the U.S. and the nation's most trusted profession. This move would further erode the nursing workforce, which is already in short supply and in dire need of support. Please sign the petition from the American Nurses Association affirming that nursing is a professional degree. ↙️
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11/21/2025

11/21/2025

Congratulations to Peter Schum, a 2014 graduate of our traditional bachelor's program, on his recent wedding to Donald Adler, director of content production for Bravo at NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Their wedding was featured in The New York Times' Style section and was officiated by Meredith Marks, one of the "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." Learn more about their story ↙️

Donald Adler, who oversees Bravo’s social media, and Peter Schum, a registered nurse, met when both nervously joined a dodge ball league.

11/20/2025

U.S. News & World Report has ranked our RN to BS program the No. 1 online bachelor's degree program regardless of discipline for two consecutive years. Sajah Hussein, an RN to BS student, currently practices as an ER nurse at Buffalo General Medical Center. She recently shared why she chose our program: "UB’s flexible online RN to BS program allows me to continue working as a nurse while advancing my education. I also value the program’s focus on leadership, critical thinking, and community health, which align with my long-term professional goals." Are you an associate's degree-prepared RN who is ready to maximize your career potential? Learn more about our RN to BS program, which has rolling admissions for Fall and Spring semester starts.↙️
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11/19/2025

UB researchers Jennifer Read, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Jennifer Livingston, associate professor of Nursing, have received a $3 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, to clinically test a novel intervention designed to reduce alcohol-involved sexual assault (AISA) risk for college women. The newly funded project is a phase two trial that will involve over 200 pairs of women. Learn more about the study and its implications for preventing AISA. ↙️ University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences
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11/18/2025

Daniel Jackson Smith, UB Nursing assistant professor and director of the Research for Occupational, Public, and Environmental Health (ROPEH) Lab, recently shared his insights about how to improve cardiovascular patient outcomes among vulnerable populations amid global warming on the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association's "Heart to Heart" podcast. Learn more about his evidence-based recommendations ↙️
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11/18/2025

The UB Nursing community is mourning the loss and remembering the extraordinary legacy of Dr. Juanita Kirkland Hunter, emeritus faculty and alumna, who died on Nov. 14. Among her numerous accolades, Dr. Hunter was the first SON faculty member to be inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing—one of the highest honors in the nursing profession.

In 2017, she identified a critical need for nurses to fulfill more executive leadership roles: "In the past, nurses were limited in attaining leadership positions in the broader society. We do not see enough representation from nursing on corporate boards in health care. We can do better, and we should do better."

Learn more about Dr. Hunter's remarkable life as a dedicated nurse, educator and community advocate ↙️
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11/17/2025

Amanda Joy Anderson, 2024 graduate of the UB Nursing PhD program and adjunct instructor: "While stable housing is a critical gap, we focused on modifiable factors relevant to our nursing expertise: refining health care delivery during care transitions, where breakdowns in important things like medication management and post-hospitalization care can occur." In collaboration with the University at Buffalo School of Management and the Public Health and Health Professions - University at Buffalo, Dr. Anderson led a recent study published in the Journal of Interprofessional Care about how to best support unhoused patients after hopsital discharge. Learn more about the impact of the study's findings ↙️
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