Spring 2025 Newsletter

Dear CNHS Community,

Congratulations on a successful semester! This spring, our community has many accomplishments to celebrate and share.

This week the College hosted our annual Zeigler Research Forum, which provided students with opportunities for knowledge sharing within the CNHS community. The forum is a wonderful event that highlights both our students’ research and the mentoring relationships between our faculty and students that make it all happen.

The College has introduced several new programs, including undergraduate LNA and SLP-A certificates and two new 3+2 pathways to advanced degrees in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Occupational Therapy. The Occupational Therapy program achieved its initial accreditation, and the Radiation Therapy program earned an eight-year accreditation, the maximum length awarded.

As UVM celebrates its R1 status, placing it in the top tier of research universities in the U.S., CNHS has submitted more than 30 proposals and received 2.3 million in funding this year.

Our student body continues to grow as our programs produce qualified health professionals. CNHS graduates are equipped with resilience, self-care, and leadership skills to advance equity, collaboration, and humanity in healthcare and health sciences, and 98.9 percent of our alumni are employed or continuing their education within six months of graduation, according to UVM's Career Outcomes Report.

As conversations continue around federal actions and their impact on higher education, I want to thank you - students, staff, and faculty - for making CNHS the success that it is. This fall, we will welcome the largest incoming class in CNHS history – approximately 297 first year and 119 graduate students, and we look forward to celebrating the CNHS Class of 2025 — 239 students well-prepared to make an impact for better health — at commencement on May 17.

I hope you will take time to read more about our accomplishments in this newsletter and wish you a summer of good health.

Warm regards,

Noma Anderson, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Advancing Suicide Prevention Through Academic Practice Partnerships

Efforts to foster and sustain academic practice partnerships for UVM doctoral nursing students have created a model for success, where student projects are carried forward to amplify their community impact.

UVM Physical Therapy Provides Pro Bono Services to School-Age Youth

A new initiative between UVM’s Physical Therapy program and Winooski’s school-based health center provides free physical therapy services to students, ensuring they receive necessary care without financial or access barriers.

UVM and VT Department of Health Making Strides to Improve the Lives of Vermonters with Arthritis

The Walk with Ease enhanced self-directed program offers support to address the number one cause of disability in the State.

A Practitioner at Heart: Dr. Sue Kasser's Community Programs Legacy at UVM

UVM Researchers Find Rural Cancer Patients Appreciate Telehealth

An ongoing qualitative study led by Elise Tarbi, an assistant professor in the Department of Nursing and member of UVM’s Cancer Center, queries rural Vermonters with cancer about their preferences using telehealth. 

Interprofessional Event Promotes Vision for Health

CNHS health professions students and faculty gathered for an event focused on the future of health—for both people and the planet. Organized by CNHS Interprofessional Education Director, Clinical Assistant Professor, and Family Nurse Practitioner Holly Whitcomb, along with Larner College of Medicine Professor Karen Lounsbury, the event featured a keynote address by Christine Vatovec, UVM Osher Center’s Planetary Health Lead and Clinical Assistant Professor in CNHS’s Integrative Health program. 

CNHS Launches New Speech-Language Pathology Programs

An accelerated M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders/Speech Language Pathology and SLP-A Undergraduate Certificate are now available.

UVM Invests Laura Foran Lewis, Ph.D., RN, as the Inaugural Carole Nagelsmith Greenberg Green & Gold Professor in Nursing

Carole Greenberg has been a strong and steady supporter of the Department of Nursing for nearly 40 years. In addition to her gift to endow this faculty position, Carole’s contributions have included unrestricted gifts for departmental priorities, an endowed scholarship fund for undergraduate and graduate nursing students, and, most recently, an influential lead gift in a campaign for interior improvements to Rowell Hall. 

UVM Achieves Prestigious Carnegie R1 Designation, Joining Highest Level of U.S. Research Institutions

The University of Vermont has joined the ranks of the nation’s top-tier research institutions by achieving an R1 Research Activity Designation, a recognition reserved for universities with the highest levels of research activity as designated by the prestigious Carnegie Classification, a program of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching administered by the American Council on Education (ACE).

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