School of Nursing

School commemorates 75th Anniversary with year-long celebration

Reunion Weekend includes Anniversary and Reunion Symposium, and 75th Anniversary Celebration Gala

School accepts the first five students of its new PhD program, to begin classes in Fall 2006

Construction of the new 56,000-square-foot School of Nursing (pictured above) building nears completion

Associate Professor Julie Barroso, PhD, ANP, CS, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care’s 2006 President’s Award

Professor Diane Holditch-Davis, PhD, RN, FAAN, School’s Distinguished Contributions to Nursing Science Award

Assistant Clinical Professor Kathleen Turner, RN, MSN, one of North Carolina’s “Great 100” nurses

The School of Nursing appointed its first ever Distinguished Professors in 2005-2006:

Professor Elizabeth “Jody” Clipp, RN, MSN, PhD, Bessie Baker Professor of Nursing
Professor Linda Davis, PhD, Ann Henshaw Gardiner Professor of Nursing

Dorothy L. Powell, Ed.D, RN, FAAN, director of the Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives

$2 million from the Duke Endowment for the School of Nursing Building Fund
$200,000 from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation for the student scholarships in Duke’s Accelerated Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner programs. The grant will be matched by Duke University’s new Financial Aid Initiative for a total of $400,000.
$200,000 from an anonymous member of the school’s class of ’71: $100,000 for the Mary T. Champagne Professorship endowment and $100,000 to the School of Nursing Building Fund
$100,000 from Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Cullman to establish the Hugh & Nan Cullman Nursing Scholarship
$100,000 from the Medical Faculty Wives Board for Medical Faculty Wives Scholarship
$90,000 from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation for nursing scholarships