On February 16, the Redbird women’s basketball team will once again show its support for the fight against women’s cancers by wearing pink and raising money for the Play 4Kay initiative.
Alumna Erin Templeton has spent the past two months putting her life back together after losing her home in the Washington tornado. Now she’s replaced some of the most treasured possessions she lost.
Sarah Lindsey is one of Mennonite College of Nursing’s all-star alums. She’s taught the next generation of nurses as a part-time clinical instructor, and served for the last 11 years on the Mennonite Nurses Alumni Organization board.
Illinois State University’s Mennonite College of Nursing (MCN) welcomed several Russian visitors from Vladimir Medical College for a two-week visit in October. Vladimir Medical College faculty members Olga Antropova, Natalia Ushakova, and Nina Bedova and students Grigorii Antropov and Vera Rybina arrived Saturday, October 19, in the United States. They were able to relax on Sunday before arriving on campus Monday morning.
The Adkisson-Bourne Endowed Scholarship was recently established at Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University by Bill Adkisson ’78 and his wife, Ellen Bourne ’71, M.S.E. ’73, who are both proud graduates of Illinois State University and have enjoyed long and successful careers as consultants to the health care industry.
Plans are underway for MCN Nurses Week, and the Mennonite College of Nursing will also be celebrating 95 years of nursing and 15 years at Illinois State University in 2014.
More than 100 Mennonite College of Nursing students got some hands-on experience in public health this week, as they surveyed McLean County residents about whether they were getting the flu vaccine.
A brain tumor robbed Mennonite College of Nursing student Casey Patton of her late teenage years. Treatment almost derailed her nursing career.
This fall, Illinois State University welcomed President Timothy J. Flanagan to campus. His wife, Nancy Flanagan, holds a Ph.D. in nursing and has an accomplished career as a nurse leader, author, clinician, and academic.
Teresa Valerio has been honored with the Marie Lindsey Spirit of Advanced Practice Nursing Award by the Illinois Society for Advanced Practice Nursing.
