A new FOCUS (First-Year Opportunity for Comprehensive, Unified

Highlights:

For the first time, all

sophomores lived in West

Campus dormitories—part

of a new plan designed to

enhance the second-year

residential experience.

Lectures, weekly dinners

and a majors fair were

among the new programs

implemented to build

community and make the

most of the shared living

experience for the

Class of 2005.

The Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy was launched as

part of Duke’s genomics initiative.

Debates, forums and lectures were held before and during the

U.S. invasion of Iraq. Professors of Political Science Peter Feaver

and Robert Keohane and Sanford Institute of Public Policy

Director Bruce Jentleson were among the faculty frequently

quoted in national news media on issues relating to the war.

A new FOCUS (First-Year Opportunity for Comprehensive, Unified

Study) Program, “Religion, Conflict and Identity in the Modern

Middle East,” was taught by faculty from Asian and African

Languages and Literature, Cultural Anthropology and History.

Awards and recognition:

Dave Chokshi T'03 and Jacob Foster T'03 were among the 32

U.S. Rhodes Scholars.

Melanie Wood T'03 became the first U.S. woman to finish in the

top five in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.

David Arthur T'04 won the 2003 Sun Microsystems and

TopCoder Collegiate Challenge as the world's best college

programmer.

Professor of Statistics James O. Berger was elected to the

National Academy of Sciences. Professor of Religion E.P. Sanders

and Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies Joel L. Fleishman

were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty and staff appointments:

Thirty-two new faculty were recruited to Arts & Sciences,

including Albert Chang (physics and nanoscience), Harris

Cooper (chair of education), Sherman James (public policy

studies) and Wendy Wood (psychology).

Three new Bass professorships were named: Sarah Beckwith,

Marcello Lotti Professor of English; Michael Gillespie, Jerry G.

and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science; and

Michael Reed, Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of

Mathematics.

Jerry Oster was appointed communications director.

School statistics:

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences comprised 5,322 students from

50 states and 51 countries. Nearly 12 percent of the students

were Asian-American and another 12 percent were African-

American. International students made up 7 percent of the total;

leading countries of origin were Canada, Turkey, India, South

Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

Major gifts:

● Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy: $1 million from

David M. Rubinstein T’70; $1 million from Coca-Cola to

name the media center for trustee emeritus Susan Bennett

King W’62

● Bass FOCUS Challenge: $500,000 from Kenneth W.

Hubbard T’65 and Victoria Dauphinot; $250,000 from

Douglas Leone and Patricia Perkins-Leone P’04

● Need-based financial aid: Bruce A. Karsh T’77, two

$500,000 gifts, bringing the Martha and Bruce Karsh

Scholarship Fund and the Karsh Family International

Scholarship Fund to $1.5 million each

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Highlights:

The Lafe P. and Rita D. Fox Student Center was dedicated.

Fuqua ranked among the top 10 business schools in all programs

as rated by U.S. News & World Report, Business Week and

Financial Times, including a No. 2 worldwide ranking of executive

education by Financial Times.

The Daytime MBA program increased its student body by almost

20 percent.

Fuqua launched the Center for Advancement of Social

Entrepreneurship (CASE), a research and education center

dedicated to promoting entrepreneurial leadership in the social

sector.

The inaugural

Coach K &

Fuqua School of

Business

Conference on

Leadership was

launched.

Global Capital

Markets Center

hosted its first

Directors’

Education

Institute.

Fuqua and Seoul National University’s College of Business

Administration announced a multifaceted alliance.

Fuqua became a platinum-level partner of the Special Olympics of

North Carolina and exceeded $1 million in contributions raised

through MBA Games over the past 14 years.


Professors Helmy Baligh, John Forsyth, John McCann and Marian

Moore retired.

Alexander McMahon, executive-in-residence, received the Duke

University Medal.

A. Ronald Gallant was named the Hanes Corporation Foundation

Professor of Business Administration and Tracy R. Lewis received

the Martin L. Black Jr. Professor of Business Administration

distinction.


Sixteen new faculty members joined the ranks for the second

consecutive record-hiring year.

Richard Staelin was appointed as deputy dean.

John F. Cady came on board as associate dean of executive

education.

Robert Garda became the director of the International Center.

Jean Eisel was named director of the Career Management Center.

School statistics:

The student body consisted of 696 Daytime, 861 Executive MBA

and 65 Ph. D. students and 207 Executive Education open

enrollment participants.

Major gifts:

Donor receipts totaled $8,968,317 for Fuqua’s second highest

fundraising year during the Campaign, including $2 million from

an anonymous donor, $980,000 from the Lafe P. Fox Family

Foundation and $882,500 from NCR.



Highlights:

Construction began on a $22-million building addition, which will

include a 315-seat chapel; a lecture hall and state-of-the-art

classrooms; office suites for student life, Duke Chapel music staff

and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life; a new

bookstore; and a dining area and terrace. Completion is expected

in early 2005.

The Divinity School was awarded a $3.1-million grant from Lilly

Endowment Inc. to coordinate a $57-million Lilly-funded program

aimed at strengthening the quality of pastoral leadership across

America.

The Divinity School launched a new four-year program, Caring

Communities: Health Ministries and the Practice of Faithful

Caring, underwritten by The Duke Endowment, to provide

interdisciplinary training in health ministry for health care

providers, clergy, lay leaders and community leaders.

Awards and

recognition:

The Company of

Preachers, edited

by Richard Lischer,

the James T. and

Alice Mead Cleland

professor of

preaching, and

Grace Matters, by

current Divinity student Chris P. Rice, were named best of the

year in their respective categories by Christianity Today (June

2003).

Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture by Grant

Wacker, professor of church history, won the 2002 Book Award in

the category of historical studies from the American Academy of

Religion.

Faculty appointments and promotions:

● Daniel C. Arichea Jr., Bishop-in-Residence, from Union

Theological Seminary, Philippines

● Douglas Campbell, Assistant Professor of New Testament

from Kings College, University of London

● Susan Eastman, Assistant Professor of the Practice of

Bible and Christian Formation

● Emmanuel Katongole, Associate Research Professor of

Theology and World Christianity from Uganda Martyrs

University, Nkozi

● Anathea Portier-Young, Assistant Professor of Old

Testament

● Tammy Williams, Lecturing Fellow in African-American

Theology from the doctoral program at Fuller Theological

Seminary

● Fred Edie, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Christian

Education

● Peter Storey, named the Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams

Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry

School statistics:

The 2002-2003 student body consisted of 495 students from 35

states and 10 foreign countries. Forty-five percent of the students

are women and 18 percent are ethnic minorities.

Major gifts:

Gifts and pledges to the Divinity School totaled $12.3 million and

the school exceeded its Campaign for Duke goal of $85 million.



Highlights:

Construction continued

on the Center for

Interdisciplinary

Engineering, Medicine

and Applied Sciences,

known as CIEMAS; the

building remains on

schedule to open in

August 2004.


Dean Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications

of liquid crystals, was inducted into the Women in Technology

International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25.

Roger Barr, professor of biomedical engineering and associate

professor of pediatrics, was voted the 2003 president-elect for the

Administrative Committee of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Society and president in 2004.

Mort Friedman, professor of biomedical engineering, was

appointed one of three U.S. delegates to the International

Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE).

William (Ed) Hammond, professor emeritus of biomedical

engineering, was presented the 2003 Paul Ellwood Individual

Award for Lifetime Achievement from FACCT, the Foundation for

Accountability.

Richard B. Fair, professor of electrical and computer

engineering, won the 2003 Electrochemical Society Award in Solid

State Science and Technology.

Robert Kielb, senior research scientist in mechanical engineering

and materials science, was presented with the ASME Board of

Governors Recognition Award for Accomplishments.

Kenneth C. Hall, chair of mechanical engineering and materials

science, was appointed to a six-year term on the ASME

International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) Board of Directors.

Henry Petroski, professor of civil and environmental

engineering, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences.


Tod Laursen, an associate professor and director of

undergraduate studies in civil and environmental engineering,

was appointed the school's senior associate dean for education.

April Brown joined Pratt in July as chair of the Department of

Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Stojan Radic joined Pratt as Nortel Endowed Associate Professor

in March from Bell Laboratories, where he worked in lightwave

systems research.

Dawn Hails was named school finance manager.

School statistics:

946 undergraduates; 180 Bachelor of Science in Engineering

degrees awarded in May.

343 graduate students, with 74 working toward master's degrees

and 269 Ph.D. students.

Major gifts:

By June 30, Pratt had raised $203.8 million in the Campaign for

Duke, which began in 1996 and continues through December 31,

2003. Pratt’s initial goal of $50 million was increased to $170

million following the adoption of the university’s strategic plan,

Building on Excellence. Pratt raised more than $46 million in gifts

and pledges in 2002-03, including nearly $1.8 million of

unrestricted funds for the Engineering Annual Fund from 44

percent of alumni and 60 percent of Pratt’s faculty.

Edmund T. Pratt Jr., for whom the Pratt School of Engineering is

named, died of cancer on September 5, 2002. An Duke

engineering alumnus and retired chairman and chief executive

officer of Pfizer Inc., Pratt donated $35 million in 1999 to the

school of engineering—the largest gift in the school’s history. "No

one had a greater impact than Ed on our School of Engineering,”

President Keohane said. “His marvelous gift has made it possible

for Duke to embark on many of the critical engineering priorities

identified in Building on Excellence--strengthening and growing

the faculty, providing the necessary facilities and laboratories for

state-of-the-art research and teaching, and attracting the best

students."



Highlights:

The Nicholas School surpassed its Campaign for Duke goal of $60

million on Dec. 20, 2002.

The second Duke

Environmental Leadership

Forum, “Dealing with

Disasters: Prediction,

Prevention, and Response,”

brought together more than

80 leaders in business,

science and policy to Duke

on Nov. 20-21, 2002, to

look at disasters that are

natural and those that are

purposeful, such as terrorist

acts.


Judson D. Edeburn, Duke Forest resource manager, was

approved for status as a Certified Forester, joining the ranks of

1,600 foresters nationwide.

Gary D. Hartshorn, professor of the practice of tropical ecology,

was named president-elect of the American Institute of Biological

Sciences for 2002.

Michael K. Orbach, director of the Duke University Marine

Laboratory, gave the 2002 Roger Revelle Memorial lecture,

“Beyond the Freedom of the Seas: Ocean Policy for the Third

Millennium.”

William H. Schlesinger,

dean of the Nicholas School

and James B. Duke professor

of biogeochemistry, was

elected to the National

Academy of Sciences.

Martin D. Smith, assistant

professor of environmental

economics, received the 2002

Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award from the American

Agricultural Economics Association.


Stuart Pimm, one of the world’s

foremost experts on endangered

species and habitat destruction, was

named the first Doris Duke

Professor of Conservation Ecology.

School statistics:

The Nicholas School had 177 Master of Environment

Management/Master of Forestry students and 112 doctoral

students, and served more than 700 Duke undergraduates.

Major gifts:

The Nicholas School exceeded

the $5 million mark in new

commitments during the 2002-

2003 fiscal year. Six gifts

totaling $2.5 million will fund

fellowships and internships to

students, provide essential

funding for faculty members,

and assist in the construction of the Ocean Sciences Teaching

Center at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort.

The NSF gave the Marine Lab $1 million to put graduate and

undergraduate students into K-12 schools to share their research

and conduct activities related to marine coastal environments for

15 hours a week. Pictured above, Daphne Pee, a Master of

Environmental Management student and one of the first Duke

Marine Lab National Science Foundation fellows, works with a

student in Carteret County Schools.



Highlights:

The Graduate School’s

Fall 2002 entering class

was the second largest in

history, with 626

students (426 Ph.D.

candidates). (The 7,825

applicants this year was

the largest number ever.)

The quality of the

entering class, measured

by both standardized

scores and the number of

James B. Duke Fellows,

also kept pace with last

year’s record, as has the diversity of the student body, with 43

U.S. minority students (17 of whom won competitive fellowship

awards). Multi-year statistics on median GRE scores,

undergraduate grade-point averages, time to degree, attrition

rates and job placement of Duke graduates are available from the

Graduate School.

The Graduate School continued its leadership role in several

national initiatives, including Dean Lew Siegel’s appointments to

the Boards of the Council of Graduate School (chair-elect) and the

Graduate Record Examination and Dean Leigh DeNeef’s position

as co-chair of the Association of American Universities Graduate

Program Data Sharing Project.

The Graduate School has been an active participant in the

Woodrow Wilson Responsive Ph.D. Project and the Carnegie

Initiative on the Doctorate, with five of its programs (Chemistry,

English, Mathematics, History and Psychological and Brain

Sciences) winning initial Carnegie grants to enhance their doctoral

training programs.

Special programs and achievements:

● A new interdisciplinary admitting and certificate program in

Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials

● A year-long series of discussions among members of the

Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, Directors of

Graduate Studies, and the graduate faculty of those factors

and practices, both within the Graduate School and in its

individual programs, that affect the ability of graduate

students to successfully complete their Ph.D. programs

● Creation of a new staff position to develop a series of

centralized pedagogical workshops for graduate students,

to coordinate non-medical Responsible Conduct of

Research Training, and to oversee the Preparing Future

Faculty project

● Initiation of childcare support for graduate students most

in need



Highlights:

The School continued its “Great Lives in the Law” lecture series,

which features the country’s most distinguished jurists, attorneys

general and other high public officials whose insights about the

law, and about their own careers, are intended to deepen the

understanding of the role of lawyers in our society. Speakers

included Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court

and Julius Chambers, a renowned civil rights activist and lawyer.

Duke Law launched three new clinical programs in 2002 to offer

students hands-on work in various areas of the law, including

community economic development, children’s education and

international human rights.

The School experienced a banner year for its moot court

programs, with students bringing home top honors in a number of

regional and national competitions.

Appointments and Promotions:

● Stuart Benjamin, professor of law, from the University of

Texas School of Law

● Michael Byers, promoted from associate professor to

professor of law

● Doriane Coleman, formerly a senior lecturing fellow,

promoted to tenure-track professor

● Arti Rai, professor of law, from the University of

Pennsylvania Law School

● Barak Richman, assistant professor of law, formerly a law

clerk in Providence, RI with the U.S. Court of Appeals for

the First Circuit

● Lawrence Zelenak, professor of law, from Columbia Law

School

● Tom Hadzor, associate dean for external relations, from

Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

● Bruce Elvin, assistant dean for career services, from

Heidrick & Struggles in New York City

School statistics:

The student body (JD) consisted of 346 men and 305 women

from 47 states and 16 foreign countries.

Major gifts:

● The Duke Endowment gave $200,000 to the Children's

Education Law Clinic, a clinical program of Duke Law

School that provides free legal services to low-income

children and their parents in matters relating to the rights

of children in school.

● Jeroll R. Silverberg L'46 established a Charitable Remainder

Trust of $1 million to provide for two full-tuition Mordecai

scholarships to Duke Law students.



Highlights:

National Institutes of Health grant funding to the School jumped

by 20 percent during fiscal year 2002, giving Duke the highest

rate of growth among the nation’s top 15 medical schools.

The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, headed by J. Craig

Venter, and Duke University Medical Center in May announced a

formal collaboration to create the first fully integrated,

comprehensive practice of genomic-based prospective medicine.

The 120,000-square-foot, $41-million "Genome Sciences

Research Building I" opened off Research Drive. The facility

houses the Center for Human Genetics, one of five major centers

in Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.

Following the fatal blood type mismatch that occurred during the

Feb. 7, 2003 heart-lung transplant for Jesica Santillan, Duke

University Hospital implemented additional safeguards for the

organ transplantation process and began a new campaign to

improve patient safety at Duke and nationwide.

Chancellor Ralph Snyderman, MD, delivered the Chair’s Address

at the Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting in

November, calling on member institutions to implement

"prospective health care"--an approach to care that focuses on

individualized health planning, disease prevention and early

intervention.

The Medical Center, the National Institute of Medicine and

Boston’s Community Catalyst received a $3.6 million W.K. Kellogg

Foundation grant to create a national program to increase the

workforce diversity of America's health professions.

In June the Medical Center formally partnered with the National

University of Singapore to establish the Asian country’s first

graduate medical school, which will be based on the curriculum of

Duke University School of Medicine.


Charles B. Hammond, MD, E. C. Hamblen Professor of

Reproductive Biology and Family Planning, received the Leonard

Palumbo, Jr., MD, Faculty Achievement Award for compassionate

patient care and excellence in the mentoring of young physicians.

Samuel Katz, MD, the Wilburt Cornell Davison Professor and

chairman emeritus of pediatrics, received the Sabin Gold Medal

from the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute for his exemplary

contributions to disease prevention, including his role in

developing the measles vaccine.

John Klingensmith, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology, and

James A. Tulsky, MD, associate professor of medicine, each

received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and

Engineers (PECASE) from President Bush. Klingensmith was

recognized for basic research in developmental biology, while

Tulsky was honored for research exploring quality of care at the

end of life.

Ralph Snyderman, MD, chancellor for health affairs and

president and CEO of Duke University Health System, was elected

to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and also received

the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National

Ethnic Coalition of Organizations for his contributions to medicine.

Jonathan S. Stamler, MD, professor of medicine and

biochemistry and associate investigator, Howard Hughes Medical

Institute, received the Ruth and A. Morris Williams, Jr., Faculty

Research Prize for his groundbreaking studies in the field of nitric

oxide biology.

Gary M. Cox, MD, assistant professor of medicine, and Jeffrey

Crawford, MD, professor of medicine, were appointed to the

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.

R. Sanders Williams, MD, dean of the Duke University School of

Medicine, and Debra A. Schwinn, MD, professor of

anesthesiology at Duke, were appointed to the Institute of

Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.


Leadership appointments:

● Pascal Goldschmidt, MD, chair, Department of Medicine

● Danny O. Jacobs, MD, chair, Department of Surgery

● H. Kim Lyerly, MD, director, Duke Comprehensive Cancer

Center

● Ross McKinney Jr., MD, vice dean for research, School of

Medicine

● James McNamara, MD, chair, Department of

Neurobiology

● Huntington Willard, PhD, director, Institute for Genome

Sciences and Policy

● Jo Rae Wright, PhD, vice dean for basic sciences, School

of Medicine

Endowed professorship appointments:

● Edward C. Halperin, MD, R.J. Reynolds Professor of

Medical Education in the School of Medicine

● Brigid L.M. Hogan, PhD, George Barth Geller Professor

for Research in Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine

● Paul P. Lee, MD, JD, James Pitzer Gills III, M.D. and Joy

Gills Professor of Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine

● Brooks W. McCuen II, MD, Robert Machemer Professor

of Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine

● Christopher B. Newgard, PhD, W. David and Sarah W.

Stedman Professor of Nutrition in the School of Medicine

● Debra A. Schwinn, MD, James B. Duke Professor of

Anesthesiology

● Bruce A. Sullenger, PhD, Joseph W. and Dorothy W.

Beard Professor of Experimental Surgery in the School of

Medicine

New appointments and promotions to the rank of professor: 39

New appointments and promotions to associate professor with

tenure: 33

Other new faculty appointments: 271

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School statistics:

Students:

School of Medicine: 456

PhD Programs in Basic Sciences: 439

Allied Health Programs:

● Physical Therapy: 118

● Physician Assistant: 85

● Pathologist's Assistant: 12

● Clinical Leadership Program (MHS degree): 11

● Clinical Research Program (MHS degree): 52

● Clinical Pastoral Education: 36

● Clinical Psychology internship: 13

● Ophthalmic Medical Technology: 2

Graduate Medical Education: 815 residents and fellows

Faculty: 1,534 (including 899 with MDs, 463 with PhDs, 95 with

MD-PhDs)

Major gifts:

● $6 million from the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of

Asheville, N.C., to establish a new Pediatric Brain Tumor

Foundation Institute at Duke.

● $2 million from the Leon Levine Foundation of Charlotte,

N.C., to establish the Barbara Levine University

Professorship in Cancer Genomics and the Barbara Levine

Breast Cancer Genomics Faculty Research Endowment

Fund.

● $1.8 million from the estate of the late Harriet I. Johnston

of Charlotte, N.C., for unrestricted support for Duke

University Medical Center.

● $1.3 million from Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Johnson of Palm

Beach, Fla., to establish the Richard and Pat Johnson

University Professorship in Cardiovascular Genomics at the

Duke School of Medicine.

● $1.2 million from the Children's Miracle Network to support

various programs within Duke Children's.

● $1 million from Dr. and Mrs. W. Lester Brooks, Jr., MD, of

Charlotte, N.C., to establish the W. Lester Brooks, Jr.,

Professorship in Rheumatology at the Duke School of

Medicine.

● $1 million from Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cless of Northbrook, Ill.,

to establish the Bryan Cless Brain Tumor Research Fund at

the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and $100,000 to

the Harris-Silverman Brain Tumor Endowment.

● $1 million from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cullather of Richmond,

Va., to establish the Cullather Brain Tumor Research Fund.

● $1 million from Mr. Oscar W. Ellis and Ms. Anne M. Colville

of Bettendorf, Ia., to establish the Oscar W. Ellis and Anne

M. Colville Brain Tumor Fund.

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Highlights:

Two School of Nursing graduate programs were ranked in the top

10 nationally by U.S. News and World Report. Gerontology ranked

eighth, and the nurse anesthetist program, which graduated its

first class in 2003, ranked sixth.

The Duke University Board of Trustees gave preliminary approval

to the School of Nursing’s plan to construct a new building

adjacent to Duke Clinic and adjoining the current facility.

Four faculty members traveled to the conflict-ravaged island of

Cyprus under a U.S. State Department grant. The Duke nurses

brought 12 Turkish and 12 Greek nurses together for a two-week

workshop on leadership training, teambuilding and grant writing.

The School’s bachelor’s and master’s degree programs were

reviewed by the Commission on Collegiate Education in Nursing

and given full approval with no recommendations for changes.

The Nurse Anesthetist Program was reviewed by the Council on

Accreditation of Nurse Anesthetists Programs and also given full

approval with no recommendations.

Debra Brandon, PhD, RN, published research in the Journal of

Pediatrics showing that exposing babies born before 31 weeks of

gestation to cycled light helps them grow faster.


Marva Mizell Price, DrPH, RN, FAAN, assistant professor and

director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program, was inducted

as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in October 2002;

Ruth A. Anderson, PhD, RN, associate professor, was elected a

Fellow and will be inducted into the Academy in October 2003.


● Julie Barraso, RN, PhD, ANP, CS; assistant professor and

director, Adult Nurse Practitioner Program

● Joan E. Dodgson, PhD, RN, IBCLC, assistant professor

● Christina C. Hendrix, DNS, CFNP, CCRN, assistant

professor

● Elizabeth E. Hill, RN, DNSc, assistant professor

● Michelle H. Martin, PhD, assistant professor

● Judith K. Payne, PhD, RN, AOCN, CS, assistant professor

● Carla Gene Rapp, PhD, RN, CRRN, assistant professor

● Queen Utley-Smith, RN, EdD, assistant professor

● Steve Talbert, RN, PhD, assistant professor and director,

Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program

School statistics:

In the academic year 2003, 317 students (10 percent males and

15 percent minorities) were enrolled in the MSN program. Thirty-

eight students (15 percent males and 13 percent minorities) were

enrolled in the A-BSN program.

Major gifts:

A $50,000 gift from GlaxoSmithKline supported the creation of

Bedside Clinical Direction in Long-Term Care, an innovative pilot

program aimed at improving care for nursing home residents.

A gift of $84,000 from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation will

provide scholarship funds to students in the A-BSN and MSN

programs.



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