April 19 — Doctoral candidate wins outstanding abstract award Valerie Steinmetz, a third-year doctoral student at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, was awarded outstanding abstract that the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) Conference. "Associations of Caregiver Health and Loneliness Among Older Adults in California" was a standout of the gerontology special interest group. Valerie’s research examines the predictors of loneliness in adults over the age of 65 who are caregivers, testing the associations between caregiver health, caregiver intensity and sociodemographic factors and loneliness in a large population of Californian caregivers. WIN strives to improve the health of the public through visionary leadership in nursing research, practice, and education.