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Mattia Gilmartin named executive director of NICHE

October 24, 2016
New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing (NYU Meyers) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mattia Gilmartin as executive director of the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) Program. NICHE, established in 1992…
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HS seniors underreport ecstasy use when not asked about molly

August 19, 2016
NYU and Columbia U. researchers find survey word-choice matters when asking teens about ecstasy/MDMA use      National surveys suggest ecstasy (the street name for the drug MDMA) use has decreased substantially among adolescents and young adults…
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Marya Gwadz awarded $5.8M from NIH for HIV care continuum intervention grant

August 19, 2016
New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing (NYU Meyers) Senior Research Scientist Marya Gwadz, PhD, along with Distinguished Professor Linda M. Collins, PhD, Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development, have received a five-year, $5…

NYU Research Shows the Struggle to Maintain Accurate Data on the Prevalence of Nonmedical Opioid Use by High School Students

August 19, 2016
     Nonmedical use of opioids (such as Vicodin, Percoset, and OxyContin) has become a major public health concern due to increases in treatment admissions, overdoses, and deaths. Data collected from high school seniors between 2009 and 2013 showed…
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Workforce study by Prof. Kovner shows 30% of nurses had change in unit type and/or title

August 19, 2016
Some factors influencing low unit-level turnover: first professional degree was a baccalaureate or higher, greater variety and autonomy, and better perceived RN-MD relations               “About 80% of newly licensed nurses find their first…

New NYU Study About Foreign Educated Nurses Seeking Work in the U.S. Sheds New Light on Global Nurse Migration Trends

August 18, 2016
Researchers find the post-economic crisis of 2008, changes in the NCLEX-RN licensure examination, and the WHO’s Code for Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers leads to dramatic decrease in internationally educated nurses in U.S.      Historically…

Pre- and Post-Doctoral Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse Research Program (BST) Comes to NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

August 18, 2016
NIH-funded for over 30 years, the move by BST to NYU provides a rich intellectual environment for trainees and strengthens the linkages to NYU Meyers’ Center for Drug Use and HIV Research      The Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse…

Grade-School Students Teach a Robot to Help Themselves Learn Geometry

August 18, 2016
NYU, AZ State, and Carleton U. researchers create rTAG, a tangible learning environment that utilizes teachable agent framing, together with a physical robotic agent to get students away from the traditional computer monitor, keyboard, and mouse   …

NYU Meyers’ Tara Cortes Receives Three-Year Appointment from the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

August 18, 2016
Dr. Cortes’ appointment follows her recently completed grant from the Department of Health and Human Services.      New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing’s Tara A. Cortes, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Geriatric Nursing and Executive…

NYU Meyers’ Yzette Lanier Awarded $1.2 Million from CDC for HIV Behavioral Intervention Based on Couples’ Dynamics

August 18, 2016
The study is unique as it will focus on identifying HIV intervention strategies for Black heterosexual youth as couples in the South Bronx      The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded New York University Rory Meyers…