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Dr. France and Dr.
Farrell presented at the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
in Atlanta. The title of their presentation was Innovative
CNS Curricula Design Improves Access to Quality Care in Rural
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Dr. Nancey France had an article
published in the Journal of Holistic Nursing:
Commentary on “The
Internal Process of Therapeutic Touch” (volume
26, #1, 2008, p. 25).
Dr. France co-presented a pre-conference at
the Southern Nurses Research Society in Birmingham titled Hu8:
The Science and Art of Qualitative Research. She
also co-chaired the educational pre-conference for the National
Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists conference in Atlanta
titled Acquiring and Managing Data to Promote Clinical Excellence and
was co-chair of the NACNS overall conference planning committee, Clinical
Nurse Specialists: Leaders in Clinical Excellence.
Dr. France was elected to 2 governing boards:
the International Association for Human Caring and the Society
of Rogerian Scholars (both 2-year terms). She continues as the
Co-Chair of the Education Committee, National Association of
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Dr. Roger Weis and Dr. Vernon Gantt have recently completed a news book entitled, Leading with Character, Purpose and Passion: Three Ways to be More Successful at Home and at Work.
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Ms. Kelly Kleinhans, Dr. Jo Ann Hammons and Dr. Sharon Hart have all recently presented papers at national and regional conferences for Communication Disorders.
Dr. Kelly Rogers and several students in the Recreation Division recently attended the annual KRPS convention in Lexington, KY.
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Congratulations to Ms. Susan Brown on her re-appointment to the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. |
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For Pearl Payne, associate professor and coordinator of the Division of Communication Disorders and a Murray State alumna, her journey back to Racer nation required a longer road.
After completing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Murray State, Payne earned her doctorate from the University of Tennessee where she proceeded to teach for 14 years.
While there she saw an advertisement for a teaching position at Murray State, which she later took. Like McKeel, Payne said she was drawn back to Murray State because of its quality of education. “Over the years, I’d kept up with what was going on here and knew of the University’s reputation and particularly the quality of its program in communication disorders,” Payne said.
While McKeel and Payne experienced Homecoming at two different times as students, both individuals agree that networking and participating in departmental activities are highlights of Homecoming as staff members. Payne, who attended Murray State in the early 1970s, said many traditions have changed between her days as a students and her return as a faculty member.
“When I was a student, you usually had a date—you got all dressed up, received the obligatory mum and went to the game,” Payne said. “That evening there was the Homecoming Ball. It was fun.”
Payne also said she credits the experiences she had during her student years for giving her a closer connection to the University and its students. Said Payne: “As an alum and a professor, I see all the students, faculty, and staff today as ‘my people.’”
--Featured article from Murray State's Newspaper "The-News".
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Woodmen of The World Lodge 728 presented a check to the Exercise & Cancer Recovery (ECR) facility at Murray State University to buy new equipment.
Dr. Matt Wiggins, director, has dedicated a large part of his MSU career over the last three years to building the Exercise & Cancer Recovery (ECR) Program from only an idea to research information on exercise and cancer recovery, to its current state, which includes an established modem workout facility in the Carr Health Building, new equipment provided through donations and providing one-on-one exercise training and prescriptions for cancer survivors; all free of charge to the current 33 participants.
They expect to have as many as 35 to 45 participants by the end of the year.
His work has included forging a partnership and friendship with several area doctors, who have referred several Murray community/region cancer patients in the exercise program. Murray State has a great opportunity to reach out to the local and regional community in our area by expanding the ECR research program that is already changing the lives of its participants and families.
Dr. Wiggins states, “We have three major goals that we are currently focusing on to help make this one program a ‘permanent’ opportunity at Murray State for the area cancer community.”
“Those goals are: (1) to provide a cost-free exercise environment for cancer survivors to be physically active and to increase their psychosocial/emotional health, (2) provide physical and psychological benefits to cancer survivors and, and publish research related to findings in the ECR program, (3) develop ongoing charitable donation partners to help with the costs of purchasing new equipment and maintenance of old equipment and to help fund a part-time programming assistant.”
For more information about the program, contact Dr. Wiggins at 809-6285.
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