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March 21, 2003|Volume 31, Number 22



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Melkus honored for diabetes research

Gail Melkus, professor at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN), has been selected by the Connecticut Nurses' Association (CNA) to receive its Diamond Jubilee Virginia A. Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Research.

The Diamond Jubilee Awards, the CNA's most prestigious honors, recognize individuals or organizations who have made outstanding contributions to nursing in the areas of practice, education, research, administration, political action and service to the association.

An expert on type 2 diabetes, Melkus has directed research programs aimed at helping people with diabetes, particularly women of color, self-manage the disease. As an adult nurse practitioner and certified diabetes educator, Melkus recognized that care providers need specialized knowledge to care for these patients. She developed a program of study at YSN called the Diabetes Concentration, which offers master's students in all specialty areas at the school experience in clinical care and research. This was the first program of this type in the United States.

Melkus recently assumed the role of director of the Pilot Development Core in the federally funded Yale-Howard Exploratory Research Center on Health Disparities (see related story, this page). There, she will work with young investigators to develop the center's pilot studies.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Designer Lee wins National Medal of Arts

Keil wins NIH MERIT Award

A new kind of coffee break: Dining Halls to serve only . . .

Geochemist Karl Turekian named to Sterling Professorship

Accounting expert Rick Antle appointed Beinecke Professor

In Focus: Yale Cancer Center

Service provides information about cancer and its treatment

'Jeopardy!' tests contestants' knowledge of drama alumni

Roof of Yale Field to undergo repairs


SCHOOL OF NURSING NEWS

A fair to remember

Scholar discusses 'worldliness' of DuBois' views on racial divide

Center for the Study of Globalization to host talks . . .

'Bitter Bierce' looks at life and times of author of 'The Devil's Dictionary'

Undergraduate group staging Handel's opera . . .

Yale Rep symposium to look at international theatrical collaborations

Advances in treatment of mental illness is topic of . . .

Event focuses on legal scholarship of Owen Fiss

Chapel sponsoring conference on issues in the Catholic Church

Event to explore neurotransmitter's role in cognitive disorders

Yale projects featured in AIA exhibit

OBITUARIES

Memorial service for Georges May

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