Academic News

Clinical Assistant Professor Sheila Pennell has been selected as one of 19 faculty and instructors in the inaugural 2025–2026 Dialogic Classroom Fellows cohort.

Dr. Lucinda Canty is now a tenured professor at the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.

Dr. Gabrielle Abelard is among 14 faculty "emerging leaders" selected for funding by the provost and chancellor to attend transformational leadership programs.

A research team led by Clinical Assistant Professor Sheila Pennell has been awarded a 2024 Public Service Endowment Grant totaling $15,000.

Professors Memnun Seven, Jeungok Choi, and Jess Dillard-Wright are now esteemed Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr. Plover has training in nursing, public health, research, education, and entrepreneurship.

Six EMCON faculty now newly hold the rank of Associate Professor with tenure at UMass Amherst.

The Baystate Midwifery Education Program and the Online Graduate Certificate in Caring for People with Substance Use Disorder expand our growing offerings.

Dr. Lucinda Canty is a 2024 recipient of the National Black Nurses Association's Trailblazer Award and will also be inducted as a Luminary ADLN Fellow.

This year’s projects include research on nursing workload, the connection between health and local farming, and new methods to measure IV pump flow rates.

Four EMCON clinical faculty members will present their work at Sigma Theta Tau’s European Region Conference in Bournemouth, United Kingdom this June.

Shaely Lora-Brito (BSN) and Ameneh Arzheh (PhD Nursing) each won the 2024 Sarah B. Pasternack Nursing Student Essay Contest in their respective categories.