Nursing students worked through a post-operative patient care scenario in our Nursing Simulation Laboratory. Walter should have been wearing his compression boots.

Nursing Simulation Lab Director Ian Murray, Nursing Department Chair Deborah Benes, and Nursing faculty Heather Wironen gave a tour of our Nursing Simulation Lab. After the tour, President Hodge shared; "That’s why this program matters so much. What I saw in the lab—students practicing with focus and humanity—reminded me that investing in nursing education is not just about the university. It’s about the quality of care every one of us hopes for when we or someone we love needs it most."

Students in Mathematics Professor Sarah Wright's Abstract Algebra course get ready to work on algebraic structures, including groups, rings and fields. 

Nursing  work through various patient scenarios in their Nursing Foundations Lab. In this course, emphasis is placed on professionalism, caring, communication, cultural considerations, spirituality, sexuality and health promoting activities. 

Environmental, Geographic and Public Health Sciences Professor Jiang Yu helps students map the magnetic field in her General Physics II course. This second-semester general college physics course consists of studies and applications of wave motions, sound, electricity, magnetism, light and optics. Typical topics include Coulomb's law, electric force and field, potential and capacitance, electric circuits, magnetic force and field, magnetic forces on moving charges, electric induction, laws of reflection and refraction, mirrors and lenses, optical instruments, interference and diffraction of light.

Biology and Chemistry Professor Daniel Welsh works with students in his  Human Anatomy & Physiology 1 course lab. The course provides a detailed examination of the structure and function of the human body on the cellular, tissue, and organ system levels. Cellular metabolism, histology, and the skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine systems and special senses are examined. 

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Steven Fiedler's General Chemistry I Lab work on an assignment in the Antonucci Science Complex. This course explores the fundamental laws and theories of chemistry such as atomic structure, the periodic table, electrochemistry, descriptive inorganic chemistry, the gas laws, solutions, equilibrium calculations and chemical bonding. 

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Dr. Sean Rollins' Medical Microbiology course performed various procedures in their lab in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course serves as an introduction to the biology of major groups of micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi. Emphasis is placed on their relationship to man as agents of infectious diseases. In the laboratory principles and practices of aseptic techniques and diagnostic identification and culture of disease entities are explored.

This morning, Environmental, Geographic and Public Health Sciences Professor Reid Parsons welcomed other School of Health and Natural Sciences professors and staff as he introduced Student Researchers Sara Beaulac & Ethan Chaco in the Antonucci Science Complex. Sara and Ethan's projects relate to ice ages on Mars and some enigmatic features found on the Martian surface. They presented their work as practice for the December American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference they will be attending in New Orleans.

Our newest Nursing Student cohort in the START STRONG; Your Nursing Journey Begins Here program ended today with tours of our Nursing Foundations and Nursing Simulation Labs. Afterward, Nursing faculty and current students took feedback about this program in its first year, as well as hand out some swag and have a raffle for prizes.