The Research Symposium is a public forum for Villanova nursing faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students, as well as nurses from the community to share research experiences, disseminate study findings and network with colleagues.

The annual event, held each spring, brings together a diverse group of nursing and health care professionals with the goal of improving patients' lives and health care delivery. Nurses and nursing students are encouraged to submit abstracts and participate in the symposium through their attendance, presentations or posters. The Research Symposium is co-sponsored by Villanova University College of Nursing Graduate Program, the College's Center for Nursing Research, and the Alpha Nu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, nursing's honor society.

For more information about the Research Symposium, contact Dr. Cathy Gray-Siracusa, President of Alpha Nu, or Dr. Marguerite K. Schlag, Assistant Dean and Director of the Graduate Nursing Program.

This year's symposium, The Many Faces of Nursing Research, will be held April 1, 2008, 4:00-7:00 p.m., in the Villanova Room, Connelly Center. Keynote Speaker for this event will be Mary E. Duffy, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita, William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College.

This event is free and open to the public.  Review the Call for Abstracts here.