| Students Awake to New Opportunities M.S. in Nurse Anesthesia program draws skilled nurses looking for more  Students lucky enough to be the one-in-four applicants accepted into Webster's only U.S.-based full-time master's program will then, over the next 2.5 years, administer no less than 1,400 hours of anesthesia. That's in addition to 78 credit hours of course and clinical work, plus professional participation in national, regional, and local conferences.
As Gary Clark, associate director of Webster's Nurse Anesthesia program, notes, that's four times the work most master's programs require. But ask some of the program's 90 alumni, or the 60 current students, and they'll report that the 30 months of intense work is worth the chance to graduate as skilled, professional, nurse anesthetists and active leaders in the health care field. FULL STORY |
| Student Spotlight: Student's Adventure Culminates at Webster Vienna The daughter of a Cuban mother and a French-American father, Herzog knew from an early age that she would delve into the cultural exploration that comes with study abroad. She began her college studies in 1997 in Spain—the root of her mother's family tree. She later studied art in Florence, Italy, before a chance encounter with her future husband led her to Webster Vienna in 2002. Four years later, she is graduating with a double major in International Relations and Spanish and a minor in Art. FULL STORY |
Faculty Feature
A Q-and-A with new full-time faculty member Jason Slone. Jason Slone |
After a career in civil service that culminated with her term as United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, Advisory Board member Mary Ann Wyrsch retired in 2004. Yet it wasn't long before the lifelong civil servant was pulled back into the field. When former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush responded to Hurricane Katrina by co-chairing a fund to help affected areas recover, Wyrsch was selected as the $100 million fund's executive director. Managing the logistics and priorities of the project is no small undertaking: Since the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund was launched, more than 60,000 donors have contributed more than $100 million, and the fund intends to distribute most of that money by Fall 2006. But such projects are what Wyrsch, a 1965 Webster University graduate, was born to do. |
