News from the School of Nursing & Health Studies

Category: Research

Call for Stories: Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics

Faculty member Dan Bustillos is editing a symposium in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research. They are currently seeking submissions on the topic "To Vaccinate or Not? Parents' Stories."

May 27, 2016

Butch de Castro Awarded Five Year Grant

Dr. Butch de Castro, Associate Professor of the UW Bothell School of Nursing & Health Studies, along with collaborators at the UCLA School of Public Health and the University of San Carlos Office of Population Studies (Cebu, Philippines), have been awarded a five-year grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health to study obesity risk in the context of international migration.

April 15, 2016

Heather Hewitt Receives Mary Gates Scholarship

Heather Hewitt, a senior in Health Studies, has been awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship for her work on The African and Afro-Caribbean Women's Health Study. Her mentor in this research is Shauna Carlisle, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. We would like to congratulate Heather and celebrate her accomplishment.

February 29, 2016

Partnerships In Community Health

Please join us for the Winter 2016 BNURS 409 Poster Presentation showcasing the work of nursing students in the UW Bothell, RN to BSN program. In this course, students learned to analyze, apply and evaluate health care activities of local, national, and global communities. Working closely with community partners, students worked in groups to apply community health nursing principles to promote and maintain population self-care. We are proud to invite community partners, faculty, students and the interested public to this event.

February 29, 2016