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Virtual Acute Care Nursing Goes Viral

December 11, 2024
DNP alumna Dr. Michelle Collins and MSN alumnae Shelby Durgin, Cheryl Muffley, and colleagues published an article on virtual acute care nursing in NPD in Motion. This pioneering model uses remote monitoring and other technology to provide nursing support to patients and bedside nurses. Nurses working virtuallyhelp nurses at the bedside by documenting medication histories, educating…
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Online Doctoral Program Opens Doors to New Careers

November 22, 2024
When his alarm clock sounded in the middle of the night, Dr. Damien Holguin woke up and logged on to his computer as quietly as possible, trying not to disturb his sleeping family. It was 2 a.m. in the United Arab Emirates — 5 p.m. in the United States — and time for his…
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Empowering Minority-Owned Businesses

October 16, 2024
In 2020, during the pandemic, alumna Ayanna Khan founded the Delaware Black Chamber of Commerce (DEBCC). Its goal is to provide a platform for Black entrepreneurs and professionals to connect, collaborate, and thrive.  Khan set up offices on Market Street in downtown…
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Puppy Love

October 16, 2024
Puppies in classrooms: It was an alumna’s idea that went viral, captivating the international media while improving reading scores. If happiness is a warm puppy, as “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles Schultz opined, the first graders in Wilmington University alumna Brooke Hughes’ class are the most jubilant youngsters at Hanby Elementary School in North Wilmington. The students also are…
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From Aspiring Lawyer to Nursing Leader

October 16, 2024
ilmington University alumna Dr. Diane Juliano likes to say that her job is “to take care of the people who take care of the patients.” She was promoted to that job — regional chief nursing officer for Jefferson Health East — in January of last year. Her appointment…
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Community Intervention

October 16, 2024
In early 2022, Wilmington’s City Council and the City of Wilmington agreed to pay $38,000 to the Community Based Public Safety Collective to perform an analysis to help the city tackle and reduce community violence. The Collective interviewed over 58 stakeholders, surveyed…
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Rodney Little: A Veteran Helping Veterans

October 16, 2024
Rodney Little Growing up in West Philadelphia in a family of seven, with a father who worked three jobs to pay the bills, Rodney Little was aware from an early age that college probably was not in his immediate future. That would come much later, at Wilmington University. But first came the army. “My father always made it clear that joining the military was one of the biggest options we had on…
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Joe Pro: This President’s Now a Hall of Famer

April 12, 2024
It seems that the title of “president” has followed Joe Pro around for most of his life. At Chichester High School, in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, he played football and was elected president of the senior class. Later, after he married and began raising a family, he…
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BFFs Lead Campus Wellness Center

April 10, 2024
Sometimes, the stars just align. That seems to be so in the case of Dr. Diane Mussoline and Dr. Kristen Wilson. The two mental health professionals arrived on the Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) campus in Sewell about a year apart — Dr. Wilson in 2017 and Dr. Mussoline in 2018. Neither had earned a doctorate at the time, but that would soon change. The New Jersey natives quickly…
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