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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
AND DENTISTRY SCHOOL OF NURSING
$1.1M $70,364
• Seven George Eastman Circle Scholarships • Charitable giving provided critical scholarship
helped the School attract the nation’s best and support, making degrees in nursing and health
brightest medical and graduate students from a care leadership more accessible, and helped to
wide range of backgrounds, reducing student address the national shortage of nurses and
debt and furthering our commitment to access nursing faculty.
and opportunity for a diverse student body. • The School of Nursing was recognized for a sixth
• Funding for research supported more than time for its commitment to diversity, equity, and
3,000 faculty and staff dedicated to pioneering inclusion with the Health Professions Higher
scientific research in our programs of excellence, Education Excellence in Diversity Award from
from RNA biology and immunology to cancer Insight into Diversity magazine.
and the neurosciences. Nearly 500 graduate • Donors provided support for the experiential
students and 200 postdoctoral appointees are learning and simulation opportunities in our
in training to become the basic, translational, newly-opened 22,000-square-foot, three-floor
and clinical investigators of the future. vertical expansion, situated above the Loretta C.
• Charitable giving supported the School’s Ford Education Wing. As the School strives to
innovative medical curriculum, helping our 96 constantly advance and redefine nursing
MD and 8 MD/PhD students, as well as 744 education, it has been acknowledged as an
trainees in ACGME accredited residency and Apple Distinguished School and received
fellowship programs, develop their practice in endorsement from the International Nursing
collaborative and compassionate medical care. Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning.
These innovations are central to transforming the
education of a new generation of nurses.
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