Awards

Celeste Surreira, DNP, FNP-BC, FNP-C, CNL, CEN, was nominated by multiple colleagues for this year's UMass ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentoring Award.

Lindsay DuBois, MSN, BSN, RN, CHSE, Chris Diaz '23DNP, FNP-BC, and Celeste Surreira, DNP, FNP-BC, FNP-C, CNL, CEN, are winners of two 2026 UMass ADVANCE awards.

Program Specialist Liz Theroux is being honored later this month with a 2026 Provost’s Staff Excellence Award for her exceptional work performance.

Raeann G. LeBlanc, PhD'18, DNP'12, AGPCNP-BC, CHPN, has been named an AACN 2025 'Excellence in ELNEC' awardee for leadership in palliative nursing education.

Assistant Professor Jeannine Blake is being honored for her early-career accomplishments in nursing-engineering innovation and patient safety research.

Dr. Linda Koh is the recipient of the prestigious 2025 Catherine Cowell Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA).

An article by professors Dr. Rae Walker, Dr. Jess Dillard-Wright, and Dr. Favorite Iradukunda has earned a prestigious American Academy of Nursing (AAN) award.

Professor Gabrielle Abelard recently received awards from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and African American Female Professor Award Association.

For two consecutive years, UMass Nursing students have been the recipients of a scholarship awarded to underrepresented nursing students and nurses.

EMCON PhD student Emefa Awo Adawudu was recently awarded the prestigious 2025 National League for Nursing (NLN) Faculty Scholarship Award.

For two consecutive years, UMass Nursing students have been the recipients of a scholarship awarded to underrepresented nursing students and nurses.

Assistant Professor Linda Koh is being honored as a leader in healthcare as part of the BusinessWest Healthcare Heroes Class of 2025.