Accolades: Roger Desmond, Renee Provost

Professor Roger Desmond of the School of Communication has been awarded a fellowship from the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). The Institute For Journalism Excellence Faculty Fellowship, funded by the Knight Foundation, places a faculty member on the editorial staff at a daily newspaper during the summer of 2006. Fellows are engaged in reporting and writing activities, and attend seminars at ASNE headquarters in Washington before and after their placements. The purpose of the fellowships is to “update the educator’s hands-on experience and to impact the newsroom's understanding of journalism education.”


Renee Provost, advanced practice registered nurse, board certified (APRN BC) and visiting professor of nursing at ENHP, participated in the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) National Consultants Meeting for Nurses in Charleston, S.C., from Dec. 9–11, by invitation from Berlix, Inc. and the International Organization of MS Nurses. Group members were chosen as experts in the rapidly changing field of neurological diagnosis and treatment of MS. The group was charged with problem-solving complex treatment decisions and compliance issues in patients with MS.

Provost also conducted an eight-week holistic healing series for patients with MS. She developed the series in conjunction with the Greater Hartford Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. This program integrates traditional neurological treatment with complementary and alternative medicine approaches. The program improves patient outcomes by balancing the traditional medical perspective of curing disease with the patient's lived experience of adapting to a chronic disease.