Yakima Young-Shields, assistant teaching professor of nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, was named Member of the Year 2009 by the Missouri Nurses Association during its fourth biennial convention in Osage Beach, Mo.
The College of Nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis will hold the Elizabeth McIntosh and Jerry Durham College of Nursing Alumni Endowed Lecture in Nursing Science at 4 p.m. on Sept. 15 in the E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater in the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL. The lecture, “Building a Program of Research in Injury Science: How Curiosity Never Kills the Cat,” will be presented by Marilyn S. Sommers, the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
