Research & Innovation

See how faculty in UL Lafayette's LHC Group · Myers School of Nursing advance nursing practice, education, and health innovation.

Our faculty seek to promote, expand, and validate scientific knowledge and evidence-based practice to advance health, and they bring that scholarship into the classroom, the simulation lab, and clinical settings.

Endowed Professorships

Endowed professorships, made possible by our partners and donors, recognize and support faculty excellence in nursing:

  • Acadian Ambulance Endowed Professorship in Nursing
  • Dr. Donald B. Williams/LEQSF Regents Professorship in Nursing
  • Dudley Joseph Plaisance, Sr./BORSF Endowed Professorship in Nursing
  • Hamilton Medical Group II Endowed Professorship in Nursing
  • Iberia General Regional Medical Center/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professorship in Nursing
  • Shelia Ardoin Walsh/BORSF Endowed Professorship in Nursing
  • SLEMCO/BORSF III Endowed Professorship in Nursing
  • SLEMCO/BORSF IV Endowed Professorship in Nursing

Health Innovation

Health informatics research at UL Lafayette is advanced by the Louisiana Center for Health Innovation, whose director holds an endowed chair in health informatics and is a member of the nursing faculty.

Scholarship in Our Community

Through the Delta Eta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, faculty, students, and community nurse leaders come together each fall for Accent on Scholarship, an annual nursing research seminar. Learn about student research opportunities.

Explore research across the college on College of Nursing & Health Sciences Research & Publications.