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UIC Nursing in the News

Faculty, students and alumni from the UIC College of Nursing are often featured in the media.

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WAND-TV | April 15, 2024
UIS receives new high-tech medical simulation tables
News story featuring comments from nursing student Kenzie Schumate

The St. Louis American | March 28, 2024
Affinia Healthcare adds midwifery care, increases access to women’s healthcare
Article about midwifery care, featuring alumna Marsha Hill, MS ’09

Chicago Sun-Times | March 22, 2024
Migrants should be vaccinated for measles at U.S. ports of entry
Commentary piece co-written by clinical assistant professor Rebecca Singer, DNP, RN.

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Truthout | April 9, 2024
Will the US’s Largest Medical Body Remain Silent After Al-Shifa’s Destruction?
Op-ed by assistant professor Sarah Abboud, PhD, RN, calling on American health care professional organizations to support humanitarian and medical aid in Gaza.

VISIBLE Magazine | March 12, 2024
Where are the voices of Black women and girls in HIV awareness?
Assistant professors Natasha Crooks, PhD, RN, and Randi Beth Singer, PhD, CNM, co-wrote this op-ed about the inclusion of Black women and girls’ voices within the HIV advocacy movement.

Ms. Magazine | Feb. 5, 2024
Is Academia Safe for Black Women? How Bias and Racism Affect Faculty Mental Health
Assistant professor Natasha Crooks, PhD, RN, writes about the issue of marginalizing Black women within the predominantly white male academic space.

Fulcrum | Dec. 28, 2023
As war rages in Gaza, campuses need to foster civil discourse
Clinical assistant professor Rebecca Singer, DNP, RN, writes about the lack of civil discourse on college campuses, and the negative effects this lack of discourse has on students, faculty and staff to talk coherently through differences of opinion or perspective on the Hamas-Israeli conflict.

 

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United Press International | Jan. 26, 2024
Quantitative ultrasound may predict which moms will deliver prematurely
Article highlighting research conducted by professor Barbara McFarlin, PhD, CNM, RDMS, FACNM, FAAN, investigating whether ultrasound scans that pick up “microstructural” changes in a woman’s cervix could indicate a higher risk for preterm birth.

Advance, A program of Government Information Service of Grenada | Sept. 12, 2022
Episode: Men’s Health
Featuring Rohan Jeremiah, interim assoc. dean for global health

Bubb Report (Caribbean) | June 21, 2020
Balancing COVID-19 with Caribbean Reopening (video)
Featuring assoc. professor Rohan Jeremiah

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Nursing Voice | Mar. 1, 2024
Civility Crisis in Nursing
Exec. assoc. dean Lauren Diegel-Vacek and assoc. dean Carolyn Dickens published this op-ed about the need “for nurse leaders in academic and practice settings to collaborate to be the driving force to promote real change.”

HealthDay | Jan. 25, 2024
High-Tech Ultrasound Might Predict Risk for Premature Delivery
Article outlining a study led by professor Barbara McFarlin, PhD, CNM, RDMS, FACNM, FAAN, to investigate whether ultrasound technologies can be used to indicate the likelihood of premature birth.

U.S. News & World Report | Jan. 25, 2024
High-Tech Ultrasound Might Predict Risk for Premature Delivery
Article outlining a study led by professor Barbara McFarlin, PhD, CNM, RDMS, FACNM, FAAN, to investigate whether ultrasound technologies can be used to indicate the likelihood of premature birth.

On campus: See our news items in UIC Today