Celebrating Student Research

The Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program (URMP), led by Yvette Conley, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, provides traditional BSN students the opportunity to work with faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and doctoral student mentors on a variety of research and scholarly project. Students have the opportunity to work with the assigned mentor throughout their four-year program or may choose to work with several mentors during their four-year program. Students have benefitted from this mentor-mentee relationship and the majority of them end up developing their own interests and ideas for research. In addition, students in the program are encouraged and supported financially to attend and present at one local, national and international conference during their four-year program, if they are the first authors of the presentation. We are proud to support these students in their academic and research pursuits.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held their 2021 conference virtually. About 15 School of Nursing students presented their research abstracts.

We invite you to watch some of the presentations.

Charlotte Laubacher – Stressful Life Events: Risk Factors for Poor Breastfeeding Outcomes

 

Isabella Goldberg – Predictors of Healthcare Utilization in Family Caregivers of Persons with a Primary Malignant Brain Tumor

 

Isabella Tam – Utilizing the 2018 Pennsylvania LGBT Health Needs Assessment to Assess the Interest & Engagement in Healthy Lifestyles Within the Allegheny County LGBT Community

 

Mandy Cooper – Access to Care Among Patients with Hearing Loss

 

Madelyn Knepp & Jordan Eckrote – Academic Performance Among Accelerated Second-Degree Nursing Students: The Role of Previous Degrees and Graduating Nursing GPA on the NCLEX Success