Nursing faculty and nursing students at Mississippi University for Women will soon be honored with The DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty and The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Students. The awards are part of The DAISY Foundation’s mission to express gratitude to nurses with programs that recognize them for…
Dr. Thomas C. Richardson’s ability to multi-task continues to impress. Richardson served as editor and typesetter for “The History of Matthew Wald”, the second work to be published in The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart. The scholarly edition was published in February 2023. The third…
Leadership comes naturally to Dr. Dorothy Kerzel. And while her titles have changed throughout the years, Kerzel has remained committed to her guiding principle: to do what is right for the students, her department and the Mississippi University for Women. After 26 years of service at The W, Kerzel earned…
Mississippi University for Women Music Therapy professor Carmen Osburn and Music Therapy assistant professor Dr. Jon Fessenden recently were appointed to national positions. Osburn, who is in her 17th year at The W, has been appointed co-chair of the American Music Therapy Association’s Academic Program Approval Committee. Fessenden has been…
Dr. Sally Pearson never imagined her epiphany would impact so many lives. Scott Tollison, provost & vice president of Academic Affairs, and Dr. Sally Pearson Pearson also never envisioned she would become a teacher. But that all changed in 2000 when Pearson was working as an orthopedic nurse at Columbus…
