Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing News
Read about the UH Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing's research, student success and activities.
2025
Spring
2024
Fall
- Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston Awarded $44.2 million to Create Regional Hub for Translational Research
- Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing Ranked No. 1 in Texas, Across Nation
- Two Universities in India Launch Doctor of Nursing Degree Programs
Spring
- Caring For The Alzheimer’s Caregivers
- Inaugural Class of DNP Graduates from Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing
- UH's Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing Earns National Accreditation for Healthcare Simulation
2023
Fall
- UH Recognized As Fulbright Hispanic Serving Institution Leader
- Threepeat! UH Recognized With Three Higher Education Excellence In Diversity Awards
- Understanding And Treating Pain In Children
- Strategies For Maintaining Nursing Presence During Telehealth Visits
Spring
- Where Would We Be Without Nurses?
- Andy and Barbara Gessner Gift $20 Million to University of Houston College of Nursing
- Undergrad Student Joins Faculty Member, Heart Association in Researching Dementia
2022
Fall
Spring
- There's a Nursing Shortage. It Affects Us All. We Can Help.
- Study Finds Low Vitamin D Levels In Young People Of Color
- Dismantling Bias For Educators In Health Care
- AACN/CDC Award to University of Houston College of Nursing: Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence among Nurses and in Communities
2021
Fall
Spring
2020
Fall
Spring
2019
- Sight for Success: UH Students to Provide Vision Screenings at HISD School
- The University of Houston Expands to Katy and Sugar Land
- Nursing school dean: Long-running nursing shortage won’t end any time soon
- Nursing Symposium Considers Social Determinates of Health
- HCA Houston Healthcare Donates $3.5 Million to UH College of Nursing
- Houston Chronicle: HCA Houston gives $3.5 million to UH College of Nursing
- University of Houston Sugar Land offers fast-paced nursing program
2018
- Diversity at UH College of Nursing Recognized, Awarded
- Sight For Success: UH Initiative Tackles Vision Challenges for Elementary Students; UH Students Assist Houston School Nurses with Screenings and Outreach
- Katy soon to be hub for higher education
- University of Houston and Humana Announce Long-term Strategic Partnership
- Deal of the Week: UH gets $15M gift from Humana for new med school, partnership
- Dr. Shainy Varghese interview: Does your child suffer from Rain Anxiety?
- UH College of Nursing and Nursing Council of India to Share Talent
- University of Houston - Katy breaks ground on new campus
- Historic signing ceremony of MOU for Graduate Nursing Education between UHCON and INC, India
- Nursing Forum Explores Advancing Bench-to-Bedside Treatment
2017
- High-Tech Mannequin Lets Students Practice End-of-Life talks
- Annual UH Sugarland Scholarship Banquet Celebrates Students, Benefactors
- Message from the Dean
- Montgomery Family Trust Scholarship paying dividends to local community (via Palacios Beacon newspaper)
- UH College of Nursing Reaches its Number-one Strategic Goal Ahead of Schedule
- Scholarship, Philanthropy Celebrated at UH Sugar Land 15th Annual Scholarship Dinner
- UH Launches $1 Billion Fundraising Campaign
2016
- Embracing Diversity in Nursing to Improve Healthcare
- The Health Professions HEED Awards
- University of Houston Embraces Diversity as an Inherent Aspect of its Diversity
- UH and School Of Nursing receive top honors for diversity (video)
- Eugenia Blomstrom, ‘The Best of Nursing,’ Retires from UH Sugar Land School of Nursing
- UH School of Nursing Students present their research at the Texas Regional HiMSS conference in Houston on May 12th
2015
- Graduation and Pinning Fall 2015
- Nursing forum to address nursing leadership
- As Fort Bend grows, colleges look to expand there
- University of Houston receives $54 million in construction bonds to expand Sugar Land campus
- Plans, more land to boost UH Sugar Land
- School of Nursing finds a home at the main campus