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Daryl Traylor

PhD Student Selected as 2020 Paul Ambrose Scholar


Traylor, MS, MPH, CHES, whose research interest lies in HIV-prevention and education, views the Ambrose Scholar Program as a way to utilize his professional graduate skills.

Michele Kennett

Grant award presented to doctoral student, Michele Kennett


  This cross-sectional study of the four universities in the University of Missouri system will compare perceived differences in research climate across institutions and subunits within institutions.  The survey, the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SOuRCe), is a validated tool designed to assess the organizational climate for research integrity in academic institutions.  This study is…

Yang Li and Sherri Ulbrich

Sinclair School of Nursing – In the News


During the past several weeks, students, faculty, and the nursing program as a whole gained the interest of local media outlets.  First, Yang Li, a postdoctoral fellow spoke to KOMU about the model she has developed to help psychiatrists better understand their female post-traumatic stress disorder patients. Li began her research about women and PTSD…

Verna Adwell Rhodes Endowed Professorship


Friday, May 3, friends, family, former students and faculty from the Sinclair School of Nursing filled the Jesse Rotunda for the announcement and celebration of the establishment of the Verna Adwell Rhodes Endowed Professorship in Nursing.  In honor of Rhodes’ achievements, service and generosity, her family and friends have come together to give $1 million…

DNP On Campus Days


More than 30 DNP students from all areas of study came to Columbia March 9- 13. Students spent the first two and a half days on campus practicing physical assessment skills and clinical skills such as biopsy, nerve block, foreign body removal, motivational interviewing, and assessment of confusion and substance use. Experts spoke to students…

Midwest Nursing Research Society Conference


The Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) held its 43rd Annual Research Conference in Kansas City, Missouri on March 27-30, 2019. The theme for the 2019 conference was “Nursing Research at the Forefront of Healthcare Crises”. A premier nursing research society, the mission of MNRS is to advance science, transform practice and enhance careers through a network of…

Maithe Enriquez

Effectively Treating Hypertension in Underserved Communities


Associate Professor, Maithe Enriquez has partnered with the Dominican Light a Candle Foundation, Kansas City non-profit Dominican Republic Medical Partnership and American non-profit Jonas Philanthropies to pilot a hypertension care program in underserved communities of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. So far, the results of this program indicate that it is both effective and…

Elizabeth Monsees PhD

Recent PhD Grad wins $40,000 Research Award


Recent PhD graduate, Elizabeth Monsees, PhD, RN, CIC, FAPIC, Antibiotic Stewardship Program Manager at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, was awarded the 2019-2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Heroes Implementation Research Scholar Award for her work in integrating nurses into antibiotic stewardship processes.   Elizabeth's project, titled “Frontline Stewards: Antibiotic…

SSON - Thompson Prentice Wipke-Tevis - HSRD 2018

Health Sciences Research Day 2018


The Sinclair School of Nursing was well-represented at the MU Health Sciences Research Day on Thursday, November 15, 2018.  Nursing PhD students presenting their research included Reem Al Alawi, Rungnapha Khiewchaum, Christiana Oyewusi, Donna Prentice, and Erin Tallon. For the first time in the history of the Sinclair School of Nursing, we also had three…

Marilyn Rantz

Marilyn Rantz to Receive March of Dimes Legend in Nursing Award


Rantz was recognized Saturday, Nov 10 at the annual Nurse of the Year Awards gala, presented by Maryville University, held annually to honor exceptional nurses.