Rachel Walker

Rachel Kay Walker (Col ’02), assistant professor and nurse scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Nursing, has received a Career Catalyst Research award totaling $450,000 from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, the world’s largest nongovernmental breast cancer research organization. Ms. Walker will work with a multidisciplinary team over the next three years to develop new technology to support breast cancer survivors, building on research she conducted at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, during her postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Innovative Care in Aging. While five of these awards were given to researchers this year, Ms. Walker’s was the only nurse-led team to receive the award.