Junior Kaitlyn Spaudie’s face lights up when she talks about the project she’s working on in her Communications in Health Care class. “We’re researching community health initiatives and writing proposals for services either in the Valpo community or our home communities,” she said. Spaudie is working toward a Bachelor of Science in Health Care Leadership […]
Professor Amy Cory has a passion for improving the health conditions of others. And with Valpo’s bachelor of science in public health, her students in the College of Nursing and Health Professions will learn new ways to promote health around the world. Valparaiso University recently began accepting applications for the public health bachelor’s program, which […]
Valparaiso University announces Karen Allen, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, will join its faculty as dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, effective July 3, 2017. Most recently, Allen has served as professor of nursing at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich. In her role as dean, Allen will be responsible for the strategic leadership, […]
Valparaiso University’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) student chapter is the recent recipient of a $68,000 grant from the Valparaiso and Munster Rotary Chapters, with support from Rotary International. These funds will be used to improve the water storage and distribution system of a rural village in Nicaragua. The chapter is excited to help improve the community’s water system and […]
Offering new opportunities for undergraduate research, Professor and Interim Chair of Civil Engineering Peter T. Weiss, Ph.D., works with students on recently installed rain gardens and a StormTreeTM system to improve the quality of stormwater runoff. Dissolved phosphorus from engine oil, lawn fertilizer, and other sources found in urban stormwater runoff can increase vegetation in lakes, rivers, and […]
Three Valpo engineering students have earned scholarships from Tau Beta Pi, the world’s largest engineering society. Louis Christensen ’16, South Milwaukee, Wis., is a mechanical engineering major. He is a recipient of the presidential scholarship and is involved with Valpo’s competitive ballroom dance club, a social fraternity, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Through Tau Beta Pi, Louis […]
Professors Tom Blodgett, Ph.D., RN-B.C., and Julie Brandy, Ph.D., RN, FNP-B.C., CNE, are the latest recipients of the Wheat Ridge Ministries–O.P. Kretzmann Memorial Fund for Research in the Healing Arts and Sciences. These funds allow them to pursue innovative research that will advance current practices in the health care industry. Professor Brandy’s research focuses on […]
When 88 nurse practitioner leaders are inducted into the Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) program in June, the state of Indiana will have just one representative — Julie Koch, assistant dean of graduate nursing programs and assistant professor of nursing. There are nearly 550 fellows nationwide that represent more than 60,000 […]
Gail Kost, MSN, associate professor and director of the Virtual Learning Center, first came to Valpo in 1990 as an assistant professor, teaching Fundamentals and Health Assessment until 2000, when she relocated to Indianapolis. After gaining more than 15 years of experience in nursing simulation, including opening a new simulation center, Professor Kost received a […]
Zeta Epsilon, the College of Nursing and Health Professions’ (CONHP) chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), was recently honored with a 2015–2017 Chapter Key Award and was recognized through the 2015–2017 Showcase of Regional Excellence. STTI is an international honor society of nursing that supports nurses’ efforts to improve the health of the world’s […]