Fall 2013 Registration and the Clinical Nurse Leader Summit

Fall 2013 Registration

Fall 2013 registration is open for all admitted domestic students. Below are some important deadlines for fall registration.

• Wednesday, July 3
• By this date, please pay all outstanding balances of $500 or more from summer and previous semesters in full to avoid registration cancellation.
• Friday, August 9
• This is the due date to pay fall 2013 and prior fees and to make first payments under the Installment Payment Plan (IPP).
• Wednesday, August 14
• You may be subject to fall 2013 registration cancellation if you have not paid the balance of your student account or made your first IPP payment by this date.
• Sunday, August 18
• Fall open registration ends on this date. Students may be charged late registration fees to register after this date.

Clinical Nurse Leader Students Present at National Conference

Five of The University of Toledo’s Clinical Nurse Leader Students (Chelsea Condon, Sarah Dillon, Lauren Snyder, Tandy Szabo and Kimberly Vriezelaar) took part in the 2013 Clinical Nurse Leader Summit of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in New Orleans earlier this year.

The students presented on a project involving the “Let’s Move” initiative begun by First Lady Michelle Obama. Their project was titled “Clinical Nurse Leaders at the Forefront Guiding Health Behaviors in Prenatal Care and Pediatrics with a Focus on Childhood Obesity Utilizing the National Initiative ‘Let’s Move’ With Foundation in Pender’s Health Promotion Model.”

The College of Graduate Studies would like to congratulate all of the students who took part in the Clinical Nurse Leader Summit.

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Updates from the College of Graduate Studies

Spring 2014 Applications

Interested in applying for a graduate program in Spring 2014? The online graduate application to start in January 2014 is available at http://apply.utoledo.edu. Please consult our application deadlines page or the department website for more information. For a list of additional required materials, please see our admission guidelines page. Application questions may be directed to graduateonlineapplication@utoledo.edu.

Changes to International Admission Requirements

English Proficiency Requirements

Starting with Spring 2014 applications, Graduate Admissions will no longer be accepting IELTS scores to fulfill the English Proficiency Requirement. International applicants will now need to provide a TOEFL score of 80 IBT, 550 PBT, or 213 CBT to fulfill this requirement. Scores must be reported to The College of Graduate Studies by the ETS testing service.

Bank Statements

Graduate Admissions will no longer be accepting letters from an applicant’s bank to fulfill the bank statement requirement. Bank statements must show a statement of accounts (sometimes referred to as a passbook), be dated within six weeks and must have a current balance showing sufficient funds. Statements received at the time of application will not be accepted.

More information on both of these requirements can be found on the admission guidelines page of our website.

Campus Visits

Interested in visiting The University of Toledo? We’d love to show you around! If you would like a campus tour or to speak with someone regarding the admissions process, please contact Corey Sampsel, Graduate Orientation & Enrollment Specialist, at Corey.Sampsel@utoledo.edu.

In the email, please include the following information:

• Full Name
• Area (Program) of Interest
• Previous Education
• What day or days would you be available to visit?

Corey will be happy to arrange a visit for you.

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Health Science Programs Provide Professional Development Opportunities

The College of Graduate Studies is proud to highlight recent professional development opportunities of some health science graduate students at UT.

Nursing Students Participate in a Medical Mission Trip to Nicaragua

Several Master’s students in the College of Nursing took a medical mission trip in March to set up mobile clinics to provide medicine, vaccines and screenings to the inhabitants of Leon, Nicaragua.

Britteney Stanton, Kelly Jackson, Stephanie Blanchard, and Stacy Swanson also conducted research on the roles women now play in family life and health care in Nicaragua. Rica Davis, Lina Barakat-Boraby, and Davis Bothe studied the impact of education on cervical cancer screening. This group provided educational sessions on general health and cervical cancer and analyzed the resulting number of women seeking cervical cancer screenings.

For the full story on this experience, please see the UT News article.

Doctoral Student Helps Burn Victim as Part of Capstone Project

Emily Fahrer, an Occupational Therapy doctoral student, recently spent a month in Bucharest, Romania working to help rehabilitate a 16-year-old burn survivor. She worked with an organization called “The Door” as part of her capstone project. For this project, students may do a case study, develop or modify a program/course relating to occupational therapy.  Although Emily had only two weeks instead of the usual two months for her project, she found it to be a holistic learning experience.  The trip not only increased her knowledge of occupational therapy, but also her exposure to the gypsy culture and Romanian alphabet. Ms. Fahrer’s case study is the first from the OT program to be completed internationally.

For more information on Ms. Fahrer’s experience, please see this article in the UT News.

Medical Physics Students Present for American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Nine graduate students in the Medical Physics program recently presented papers at the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine during their spring meeting in Ann Arbor.

Doctoral student, Gregory Warrell, was awarded third place for his oral presentation on “Experimental Evaluations of the Thermal Properties of a Novel Thermo-Brachytherapy Seed for Treatment of Solid Tumors”. Presentations were assessed based on the categories of scientific content, innovative research idea, candidate’s knowledge of the subject and effective delivery, among others. Mr. Warrell was awarded a certificate and $150 award

The College of Graduate Studies encourages and supports students in experiential learning opportunities.  Congratulations to all the above participants for their research and international outreach experiences.

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