CHHS Faculty and Staff Awards

This award is designed to highlight the value and impact of collaborative efforts linking expertise within our academic departments and our centers and institutes in the college. This award is given to two individuals: one with an appointment in an academic department and the other with a primary appointment in a CHHS institute or center. Nomination should focus on demonstrating that the scholarly collaboration resulted in highly impactful work within the health and human services. Provide one letter of nomination that describes the collaborative initiative and the impact, significance, and outcomes of the collaboration along with the role that each nominee had in the work.

• 2020: Mark Bonica, Health Management & Policy and Laura Davie, Institute for Health Policy and Practice
• 2021: Mike Ferguson, Recreation Management & Policy and Kim Persson, Institute for Health Policy and Practice
• 2022: Shelley Mulligan, Occupational Therapy and Betsy Humphreys, Institute on Disability
• 2023: Dayle Sharp, Nursing and Marcy Doyle, Institute of Health Policy and Practice
• 2024: Anne Meginniss, Nursing and Marguerite Corvini, Center for Digital Health Innovation

This award honors a senior member of the faculty whose research has had a continuous and significant impact on their discipline. Provide (1) one letter of nomination that describes the nominee’s distinguished research record evidenced by significance and impact on the field and (2) nominee’s up-to-date CV.

This award honors a faculty member at the rank of Assistant who has demonstrated extraordinary progress in establishing a productive, coherent, and impactful program of research. Provide (1) one letter of nomination that describes the nominee’s significant early success in research with evidence of the faculty member demonstrating leadership on projects, publishing in high quality outlets, and having impact on the field and (2) nominee’s up-to-date CV.

• 2021   Jennifer O’Brien, Social Work
• 2022   Tarkington Newman, Social Work
• 2023   Kristen Clark, Nursing
• 2024   Trish Kelshaw, Kinesiology

This award honors a clinical faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to the education and preparation of the next generation of health and human service professionals. Provide (1) one letter of nomination that describes the nominee’s significant contributions to clinical education and practice and how their work impacts CHHS and the discipline and (2) nominee’s up-to-date CV.

• 2023: Jennifer Frye, Recreation Management & Policy
• 2024: Dayle Sharp, Nursing

This award celebrates excellence in teaching. Eligible faculty must have an appointment of greater than 75% time and must teach at least three courses per year. Also, faculty cannot have won the award in the past four years. Faculty members who have won the award in the past four years are not eligible. Provide one letter of nomination that demonstrates excellence in teaching through evidence of the nominee’s distinction in their area of teaching.

• 2020: John Wilcox, Occupational Therapy
• 2021: Sarah Smith, Occupational Therapy
• 2022: Anne Jamieson, Health Management & Policy
• 2023: Alyssa O’Brien, Nursing
• 2024: Jill Thorson, Communication Sciences & Disorders

This award celebrates a staff member who consistently goes above and beyond to support the needs of academic units, faculty, staff, and students. This award honors individuals who play a crucial role in enhancing the educational experience by providing effective administrative assistance. Provide (1) one letter of nomination that describes the nominee’s excellence and their significant contributions and impact to the academic community. 

• 2020   Bridget Drake, Institute for Health Policy and Practice
• 2021   Sarah Mantegari, Social Work
• 2022   Jill Varney, Institute on Disability
• 2023   Angelique Horton, Kinesiology
• 2024   Wendy Kaban, Nursing

This award recognizes a staff member who has demonstrated exceptional dedication to fostering meaningful and sustainable partnerships with our community stakeholders. This award honors those who go beyond traditional roles to actively engage with organizations to address shared goals and enhance the college’s impact on the surrounding community. Provide (1) one letter of nomination that describes the nominee’s excellence, and their significant contributions and impact on supporting mutually beneficial connections that extend beyond university boundaries.

This award recognizes and provides financial support ($1200 each for faculty and student awardee) for a faculty-student collaborative research or a faculty-student collaborative community service project, outside of a classroom setting. The goals of this collaborative project should include promoting awareness or enhancing knowledge in health education, student health issues, public policy and/or human services needs to the wider University community. Undergraduate student eligibility: Rising sophomore or junior student (cannot be awarded to graduating senior) with a GPA of 3.20 or higher. Graduate student eligibility: Meritorious academic performance. The faculty-student team should submit a brief proposal (1-3 pages) that describes the project and how the project satisfies the award goals.

• 2020   Tarkington Newman, Social Work (Justice Ohanasian)
• 2021   Michael Ferguson, Recreation Management & Policy (Alex Caraynoff)
• 2022   Tarkington Newman, Social Work (Meg Knuettel)
• 2023   No award
• 2024   Cindy Hartman and Jayson Seaman, Recreation Management & Policy (Hannah Falcone, Kate Moscouver)