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Barbara Germino, Martha Henderson, Susan Pierce
The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life has invited three School of Nursing faculty members to serve as associate faculty scholars.
Germino, Henderson and Pierce were selected in recognition of their efforts to better understand and improve care at the end of life.
Germino is co-editor of Death, Dying and Bereavement. Her expertise includes concern for quality of life and care for the dying. She will participate in various conferences and programs and will write grants for educational and research support.
Henderson is an expert on the legal aspects of growing old and dying, including living wills. She also was appointed recently to the Nursing Leadership Academy for End of Life Care, which offers leadership training to nurses so they may improve care for terminally ill patients.
Pierce has written numerous articles on ethical decision-making and the perspective of family members on the dying process within critical-care settings.
Joanne Harrell
A professor at the School of Nursing, Harrell was recently named the University of Florida College of Nursing's 2000 Alumna of the Year.
The alumni council chose Harrell because of her distinguished research career, including her concentration on studying children's physical activity, obesity rate and cardiovascular health.
Jim Murphy
Dean of summer school and professor of economics, Murphy has been elected president of the Association of University Summer Sessions (AUSS) for 2001. He will be chairing the group's annual meeting in Tucson, Ariz., during the fall. AUSS has existed for more than 70 years; its membership is limited to no more than 50 selected research universities in the United States and Canada.
Robert G. Parr
The alumni magazine of Brown University has named Parr, Wassily Hoeffding Professor of Chemical Physics in the Department of Chemistry, one of the 100 Brown alumni who most influenced the 20th century.
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