SU Celebrates Recent Faculty, Staff and Student Successes
SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University celebrates the following recent faculty, staff and student achievements:
DiBartolo Inducted Into AAN 2020 Class of Fellows
Dr. Mary DiBartolo, Fulton Endowed Professor of Geriatric Nursing in SU’s School of Nursing, has been inducted into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) 2020 Class of Fellows. This year’s 230 members were selected based on their extraordinary contributions to the nursing profession.
DiBartolo began teaching in SU’s Nursing Department in 1995. She is the first SU faculty member to receive this honor, representing a significant milestone in a nurse leader’s career.
In addition to her many publications and presentations on aging-related topics and educational strategies, DiBartolo also continues her role as a researcher, educator and advocate for patients and families dealing with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
She has published massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) on these conditions that primarily affect older adults. These online educational programs are available to a global audience through the University System of Maryland’s edX platform.
She also serves as host of the School of Nursing-sponsored Focus on Health education series on PAC 14, where she has produced more than 300 programs.
DiBartolo hopes to serve on the AAN’s Aging Expert Panel as part of her service to the Academy.
Founded in 1973, the mission of the AAN is to serve the public and the nursing profession by advancing practice, health policy and science through organizational excellence and effective nursing leadership.
The Academy is comprised of more than 2,700 nursing leaders from 38 countries who are experts in policy, research, administration, practice, and/or academia who are then charged with creating and executing evidence-based and policy-related initiatives to improve health and achieve health equity.
SU Earns EAB Technology Recognition
SU recently earned recognition from EAB Technology for using the company’s Navigate Student app to raise cumulative student grade point averages.
EAB’s in-house “Discover the Value” series noted that promotion of the phone app and its Study Buddies program increased its users’ cumulative GPAs by an average .11 points. Student users also ended the fall 2019 semester with higher class credit completion ratios.
SU staff leading the promotion of the Navigate app and platform at SU included Dr. Melissa Boog, associate vice president of academic affairs; Dr. Heather Holmes, Center for Student Achievement director; and Sarah Timko-Jodlbauer, Academic Advising Center director.
Perdue School Students Win DMAW/EF MAXI Case Competition
A team from SU’s Franklin P. Perdue School of Business recently won the Direct Marketing Association of Washington Educational Foundation’s (DMAW/EF’s) fall 2020 regional Collegiate MAXI Case Competition.
Coached by Irina Piatselchyts B.S. ’11, M.B.A. ’16 of the Management and Marketing Department (who participated in two MAXI case competitions as a student), the team was charged with creating an integrated marketing plan to re-engage lapsed donors to Disabled American Veterans, a national non-profit organization serving disabled military veterans and their families.
Team members included seniors Theresa Aronne of Silver Spring, MD; Elizabeth Dean of Cambridge, MD; and Helen Martin of Kingsville, MD.
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