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May 16-20, 2022
WesternU College of Graduate Nursing
celebrates 25th anniversary
Western University of Health Sciences’ College of Graduate Nursing (CGN) celebrated 25 years of innovation and trailblazing in nursing education while looking ahead to even greater success to come.

CGN held a celebration May 10, 2022 on WesternU’s Pomona campus. The event brought together CGN leaders past and present, WesternU and community dignitaries, and students, faculty and staff.

Commencement 2022
The first of six WesternU Commencement ceremonies begins on Wednesday, May 18. WesternU President Robin-Farias-Eisner, MD, PhD, MBA, will preside over Commencement for the first time, and he will provide the keynote address for many of the ceremonies as well.
For those attending the ceremonies, use #WesternUGrad2022 to get your commencement photos featured on our socials, especially as a Story on @westernunews on Instagram!
COMP news
COMP Associate Professor Brian Kraatz, PhD, published an article with a collaborative research team on paleontological and geological research conducted in Sudan over the last four years. The article, "Luminescence chronology of fossiliferous fluvial sediments along the middle Atbara River, Sudan,” is open access and published in the journal Quaternary Geology.

Recently, a multi-million euro European Research Council grant was awarded to the project PI, Dr. Faysal Bibi, to continue the work as the PALEONILE project for five additional years during which Dr. Kraatz will remain a core team member.
COMP Professor Vishwanath Venketaraman, PhD, and COMP students Arman Amin, Nicole Poladian, Alexander Voloshko, Aram Yegiazaryan, and Abdul Latif Al-Kassir, published "Root Causes of Fungal Coinfections in COVID-19 Infected Patients" in the journal Infectious Disease Reports.
Dr. Venketaraman and his team have published 18 papers between 2021 and now. The co-authors on most of these publications are COMP students, students from the MSBS program and COMP alumni. He has also garnered $95,000 in funding to support his research.
College of Pharmacy news
Congratulations to PPAD faculty for their many outstanding accomplishments.

Click below to read more about a study by Drs. Anandi Law and Jason Wong, Dr. Sheryl Chow's work with the American Heart Association, Dr. Rachel Ryu's activities at the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists Pacific Coast Preceptor Conference, and Dr. Don Roosan's multiple publications and accomplishments.

Office of Community and Governmental Affairs news
SoCalGas donated 20,000 masks to WesternU through a partnership built between SoCalGas Public Affairs Manager Lanae O'Shields and Patricia Lozano, MBA, Director of Operations & Outreach for WesternU's Office of Community & Governmental Affairs.
Here, O'Shields is delivering the pallet of masks to Central Receiving and Asset Management Lead Oscar Camarena on May 13, 2022.
Research Grant Opportunity SharePoint site
Faculty and Researchers! Are you looking for a research grant? Check out Research Grant Opportunity (RGO) maintained by Sponsored Programs.

On this SharePoint site, you will find website links to government, foundations and corporate grants. You can easily see what you’re interested in by reading a short descriptions of each link. Sponsored Programs is updating this often so check back occasionally. Start at the home page, then click on Registered Grant Sites to see the actual links and descriptions. Feel free to contact Grant Specialist Robin Barton, rbarton@westernu.edu to give us more suggestions for grants.
WesternU in the news

Dr. David V. Hess (COMP alumnus) Marquis Who's Who Top Doctors, May 9