Nursing News and Events
![Sophia Sportelli poses with the Cardinal!](/media/news-images/fall-2019/october/Sophia-Sportelli-960.jpg)
10/17/2019 - Sophia Sportelli came to St. John Fisher College to study early childhood education with a focus on biology. A native of Syracuse, New York, she described her first six weeks on campus as exciting, challenging, and welcoming.
![Wegmans School of Nursing](/media/news-images/Wegmans-School-of-Nursing-960.jpg)
09/24/2019 - The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC), a partnership between the American Association of Colleges of Nurses and the City of Hope, in Duarte, California, included St. John Fisher College’s Wegmans School of Nursing on its ELNEC-Undergraduate Champions List.
![A wall in the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. School of Education Building reads: A great education starts with a great teacher.](/media/news-images/RalphCWilsonJrSchoolofEducationWall-960.jpg)
09/13/2019 - This fall, St. John Fisher College students will see 13 new faculty members in their classes.
![Kearney Hall](/media/news-images/Kearney-Hall-1-960.jpg)
09/09/2019 - St. John Fisher College earned a place on the U.S. News & World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” feature, making the grade for its value, quality educational opportunities, and support of veterans, among other characteristics.
![2019-2020 Colleges of Distinction Badge](/media/news-images/summer-2019/august/2019-2020-CoD640.jpg)
08/13/2019 - St. John Fisher College was among just 400 colleges and universities across the country to earn a 2019-2020 Best Colleges of Distinction designation.
![Shantel Giles](/media/news-images/summer-2019/july/Shantel-Giles960.jpg)
07/30/2019 - Shantel Giles is a natural listener and throughout her life, friends and family have viewed her as a confidant and source of advice.
![Maria Robles poses in her commencement attire in front of Kearney Hall.](/media/news-images/summer-2019/july/Maria-Robles960.jpg)
07/16/2019 - After four years at St. John Fisher College, Brooklyn, New York, native Maria Robles ’19 is officially calling Rochester home.
![Tara Sacco and Lori Dambaugh demonstrate the health assessment process.](/media/news-images/summer-2019/july/Sacco-Dambaugh-Health-Assessment-Demo-960.jpg)
07/05/2019 - St. John Fisher College professors Dr. Lori Dambaugh and Tara Sacco recently traveled to Slovenia to meet with faculty members from the University of Maribor Faculty of Health Sciences, thanks to a partnership between the central European university and the Wegmans School of Nursing.
![Joe Current presents research.](/media/news-images/summer-2019/june/Joe-Current960.jpg)
06/28/2019 - A recent graduate and a rising sophomore have received the inaugural 2019 Internship Funding Award from the Center for Career and Academic Planning (CCAP) to help fill the gap for unpaid/underpaid internship opportunities that each are pursuing this summer.
![A patch on the uniform students wear at the Wegmans School of Nursing..](/media/news-images/WegmansSchoolofNursingPatch.jpg)
06/11/2019 - The lifesaving care provided by two Fisher nurses was the subject of a 13WHAM-ABC news story this spring.