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Nursing Breaks Top 25
| College of Nursing
Dianne Morrison-Beedy, dean of the College of Nursing
Photo by Eric Younghans | USF Health
USF's College of Nursing has joined the ranks of the top 25 nursing schools in the nation receiving National Institutes of Health research funding.
The college attracted a record $1.99 million from NIH in fiscal year 2011, a 16 percent jump from 2010. USF nursing has been on a fast track for national research prominence over the last several years. Just four years ago, the college ranked 66th in NIH funding.
"With passion for research excellence, creativity, teamwork and perseverance, the USF College of Nursing reached a major goal we strategically set out to attain," says Dianne Morrison-Beedy, dean of the College of Nursing and senior associate vice president of USF Health. "I could not be more proud of my outstanding colleagues whose untiring efforts made this success a reality."
When Morrison-Beedy arrived at USF in April 2010, she set the ambitious goal of breaking the top-25 within five years. Instead, the college did it in two.
USF's climb to the top was fueled by recruitment of new faculty who joined the nurse scientists already at the college and a strong Nursing Center for Research.
USF nursing research focuses on two broad-based initiatives — chronic illness and veterans' health.