Alumni Recognition

College of Nursing Dean, Alumni Inducted as Fellows into American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Jul 7, 2017

Pictured from left to right: Kathy Wheeler, PhD, RN, APRN, NP-C, FNAP, FAANP; Sheila Melander, PhD, APRN, ACNP-BC, FCCM, FAANP; Janie Heath, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, FAANP; Marianne Hutti, PhD, WHNP-BC, FAANP; Julianne Ewen, DNP, APRN, FAANP; Sharon Lock, PhD, APRN, FNAP, FAANP; Beth Partin, DNP, APRN, FAANP; and, Whitney Nash, PhD, MSN, ANP-BC.

Recent Nursing and Medicine Alumni Get Married and Embark on Adventure of a Lifetime

Jun 28, 2017

The first thing Christa and Jon David (JD) Hammer saw after they landed in Los Angeles International Airport and before they embarked on their journey along the West Coast was the inside of an ambulance. The catch? The ambulance was turned into a camper, and the couple drove it around California from Los Angeles to Yosemite, then down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to San Diego. Christa and JD visited family in Redondo Beach and fulfilled a dream of hiking Half Dome in Yosemite.

College of Nursing Celebrates Homecoming of UK Honor Flight Veterans, Major (RET.) Richard Krolikoski, BSN, 1976 Alumnus

May 15, 2017

On Saturday, May 20, UK became the first university in the nation to sponsor an Honor Flight, sending nearly 70 veterans on an all-expense paid trip to visit memorials in Washington, D.C. Many of the veterans on the flight are affiliated with UK, including alumni, retirees and family members of current UK faculty and staff.

Meet Hall of Fame Inductee Dr. Sue T. Hegyvary

Mar 29, 2017

The College of Nursing is now accepting nominations for the third class of Hall of Fame inductees. Click here to nominate a distinguished nursing leader by March 31! Sue Hegyvary, PhD, RN, FAAN, grew up in rural Kentucky in a culture that didn’t especially value education. Very few students from her high school went to college.