Nursing outstanding alumnus named Brilliant New Investigator

Bronson School of Nursing alumna Dr. Heather Tubbs Cooley ’03, inducted into the College of Health and Human Services Outstanding Alumni Academy in 2010, has been named the 2014 Brilliant New Investigator for the prestigious Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science. The award was presented to her at the council's 2014 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research conference in Washington, D.C. Sept. 18 to 20. For more information about the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, visit them on the Web.

After earning bachelor’s degrees in both nursing and Spanish at WMU, Tubbs Cooley went on to pursue a Master of Science in Nursing and Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently an assistant professor and nurse scientist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and an assistant professor of clinical nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. For more information about Tubbs Cooley, read her bio.