Dr. Lydia Wytenbroek Selected as Inaugural Recipient

of Nursing Archives Associates Archival Research Award

The Nursing Archives Associates (NAA) located at Boston University, have selected Dr. Lydia Wytenbroek, assistant professor, as the inaugural recipient of the NAA Archival Research Award.

Lydia Wytenbroek headshot by Paul Joseph

We congratulate Dr. Wytenbroek, who was announced as the first to receive this award on March 18, 2026. This new prize "supports historical research about nursing and health care, and encourages the use of the History of Nursing Archives housed in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University Libraries for primary source research."

Read about Dr. Wytenbroek's plans for this award involving the Virginia Arnold Collection, here.

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