On Saturday, February 25, Villanovans again were cheering in New York City, this time for Villanova University’s radio station WXVU winning the award for Best National Public Affairs Program at the 83rd Annual Intercollegiate Broadcasting System conference for the podcast, Ring the Alarm: Human Trafficking. The podcast is hosted by then-graduate nursing student Alexandra “Alex” Hudson ’22 MSN, RN, an experienced emergency nurse in Philadelphia who is joining the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing (FCN) this March as adjunct clinical faculty.
FCN has partnered with Villanova University’s radio station WXVU to create WXV&U Health, in collaboration with Villanova’s Office of Health Promotion, the first nurse-led health and well-being department in college radio. Associate Professor Carol Weingarten, PhD, RN, ANEF, is the inaugural director of WXV&U Health and has mentored numerous senior nursing students in her spring semester health promotion practicum course as they create and disseminate science-based information through a podcast format for their fellow college students, while learning editing and other skills along the way.