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A Chance Encounter
Dori Nicol’s journey nursing journey has taken many twists and turns. At 20 years old Nicol had no idea what she wanted to do with her life, and her first college attempt failed. But a chance encounter brought her to where she is today. “I became a private sitter for two senior citizens in my…
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Undergraduate Spotlight, Skylar Sopko
Skylar Sopko is a senior at the University of Tennessee, College of Nursing. Sopko is a BSN student and will graduate in May. Sopko is a member of the Nursing Honors Program, Chancellor’s Honors Program, SGA, Nursing Ambassadors, undergraduate research, and Phi Mu sorority. She currently works at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. Last summer she…
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Undergraduate Spotlight, Noah Anderson
Noah Anderson is a senior at the University of Tennessee, College of Nursing. Anderson will graduate this month with his BSN. He currently serves as head ambassador for the college, and he represents the college on the Provost’s Student Advisory Council. Anderson recently accepted a position as a trauma surgical nurse resident in Seattle, Washington.…
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From Cells to Society
The best career advice Joel Anderson, associate professor at the University of Tennessee, College of Nursing ever received was to do what makes your feet dance. Anderson’s career started at the lab bench in a cancer research lab. His work focused on testing new chemotherapy agents for brain tumors. “During that time, my grandmother was…
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Graduate Student Spotlight, Steven Moon
Steven Moon is in the DNP nurse anesthesia program at the College of Nursing. He received his BSN from the University of Michigan in Flint and worked in the Medical-Surgical Intensive care unit at Hurley Medical Center in downtown Flint, MI for over two years before returning to CRNA school. He has been the vice-president…
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Nominations Now Open For Faculty & Student DAISY Awards
Nominations are now open for UT College of Nursing faculty and students for the DAISY Faculty Award and the DAISY In-Training Award as well as other internal awards for recognition of service and excellence to our college. All nominations received by Friday, March 31st will be considered. A committee composed of faculty members and advisory members will review…
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The University of Tennessee Medical Center and The University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Nursing Announce Nursing Scholars Program
Set to enroll its first class in fall 2023, the program will give UT Medical Center a steady pipeline of top nursing graduates to employ while increasing enrollment in UT Knoxville’s College of Nursing. The University of Tennessee Medical Center and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Nursing are partnering to create a new…
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Niederhauser Named President of Friends of National Institute of Nursing Research
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Nursing Dean Victoria Niederhauser has been appointed President of the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research board (FNINR). The FNINR is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1993 whose mission is to strengthen and magnify the National Institute of Nursing Research’s impact in advancing nursing science. Nurse…
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College of Nursing Receives $1 Million Gift from Boyd Foundation
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of Nursing has announced a $1 million gift from the Boyd Foundation. The gift includes a $500,000 addition to the Susan L. Moeller Memorial Scholarship Endowment and a $500,000 commitment to the College of Nursing Building Fund. The Lecture Theatre will be named in memory of Susan, pending UT Board of Trustees…
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Cherokee Health Systems and the University of Tennessee Celebrate its Academic and Practice Partnership
Cherokee Health Systems and the University of Tennessee, College of Nursing are celebrating the success of their Transforming RN Roles in Community-Based Integrated Primary Care through Academic Practice Partnership (TRIP) program as the organizations close out the final year of their grant-based partnership. Four years ago, the college was awarded a $2.6 million dollar grant…