Although Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor’s lecture was not scheduled to begin until 6 p.m. on Friday, September 20, students, faculty and members of the community crowded into the Townsend Center an hour early. The event, “The Triumph of the Human Spirit: from Auschwitz to Forgiveness,” was sponsored by the School of Nursing, Pi Nu Honor Society and the College of Arts and Humanities. As the masses flooded into the auditorium at 5:30 p.m., those without tickets waited in the lobby to learn whether there would be room for them to attend. After the lecture, members of the audience were invited to ask questions. When Eva finished answering their queries, she had her picture taken with students from a local junior high school and then signed copies of her book, “Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz.” Read more ...
UWG School of Nursing Receives $503,020 to Address Nursing Faculty Shortage: The School of Nursing will be able to educate more nurses for faculty roles in colleges and universities thanks to a $503,020 award through the University System of Georgia’s Nursing Faculty Initiative which is funded for two years.
The award will support the expansion of the School of Nursing’s wholly online new doctoral program—an Ed.D. degree in Nursing Education, increasing the number of students able to enroll by nearly 50 percent this first year. The Nursing Education Program is the only program of its type in Georgia and one of a few in the nation designed specifically to prepare nursing faculty. Read more ...
UWG welcomes Dr. Michelle Byrne as a new professor of nursing. Dr. Byrne joins the university after directing the Master of Science in Nursing Education Program at University of North Georgia. Dr. Byrne says the new Ed.D. in Nursing Education provided a major incentive for her transfer.
“UWG’s nursing school’s caring curriculum is also congruent with my philosophical beliefs of teaching in academia,” said Dr. Byrne. "My expertise is in the role development of nurse educators, and I look forward to helping develop nurse leaders and faculty for the future." Read more ...
The University of West Georgia welcomes Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor for a speaking event on Friday, September 20, at 6 p.m. in the Townsend Center. Eva, a survivor of Mengele’s twin experiments during the Holocaust, will be speaking on “The Triumph of the Human Spirit: from Auschwitz to Forgiveness.” This free event is open to the public and is sponsored by the School of Nursing, Pi Nu Honor Society and the College of Arts and Humanities.
Eva was only 10 years old when her entire family was placed in a concentration camp. She and her twin sister Miriam were separated from the rest of their family, and the two girls barely survived the torturous experiments Josef Mengele performed on them. Of the 1,500 sets of twins experimented on, only around 200 children survived long enough to see the Soviet Army liberate the camp in January 1945. Read more ...
