Photo of the Week - December 15, 2025

Ellie Salvino receives her ceremonial white coat from Cassandra Marshall as her fellow nursing students look on.

Ellie Salvino, a nursing student at the University at Albany's College of Integrated Health Sciences, receives her ceremonial white coat from UAlbany Director of Nursing Cassandra Marshall. The event marked the students' transition from classroom learning to hands-on clinical practice, the first step toward becoming registered nurses. UAlbany and St. Peter's Hospital College of Nursing celebrated the first official cohort of students accepted through UAlbany's BS in Nursing 1+2+1 program on December 12, 2025.  (Photo by Brian Busher)