Your gift contributes to faculty growth and initiatives to ensure the very best guidance, mentorship, teaching, and research will shape future nursing workforce, practice, and policies. See how you can shape the future of nursing.
Areas to Support
Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning in Nursing Fund
Support ongoing faculty development to use active learning environments, simulated environments of care, and clinical labs in teaching and research.
Nursing Board of Visitors Professorship Fund
Support the School of Nursing Professorship, established by the Board of Visitors, that focuses on rural health or aging science.
Mary and David Anderson/American Family Insurance Clinical Faculty Support Fund
Support recruiting and retaining clinical faculty.
Impact in Action
Endowments Empower Faculty and Students at the School of Nursing
Donor support enables retention of the excellent faculty at the School of Nursing through endowed chairs and named professorships.
Mentors Make a Difference for DNPs
Clinical Professor Dr. Barb Pinekenstein studies the way mentor relationships form and how they influence careers. To help DNP students and graduates identify and connect with potential mentors, Pinekenstein has helped coordinate a speed-networking event at the school for the past two years.
Recruiting Faculty to Address Native American Health Disparities
The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing, School of Human Ecology, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies are assembling an interdisciplinary research team to work closely with Wisconsin Native Nations to address tribal health, environmental and social challenges. Three new faculty members will collaborate closely with tribal communities and Native organizations to identify needs and determine priorities while advancing science.