Excellence in Innovation Award
Criteria
This award honors a School of Nursing graduate who has excelled in:
- The creation of an innovative system/s (something new or a new approach) that supports people in attaining optimal health, or
- Demonstrates novel/innovative approaches of better understanding of how to care for complex care patients, underserved patients, patients with low incidence chronic disease and their families, communities or specific populations
Ways to achieve the innovation should include at least one and preferably two of the following:
- educational interventions,
- research
- programmatic changes,
- a product/device,
- a business,
- a detailed process,
- a service, or
- a new collaboration, or methodology
Nurses who have implemented innovations in academic, healthcare, community, public health, or private industry settings are eligible nominees for this award.
Eligibility
Eligible individuals are graduates of the School of Nursing.
Nomination Process
- Complete the nomination form.
- Include nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
- Nominator’s letter should describe the innovation and how it has impacted health
- Additional letter(s) should be one page and may be from colleagues of the nominee, faculty members or an alumni knowledgeable regarding nominee’s achievements.
- Send completed nomination materials to Barbara Mullikin at westr073@umn.edu.
- The School of Nursing Alumni Society Awards Committee will review the nominations and select an awardee.
Description of Award
Recipient will receive a certificate presented at the School of Nursing annual spring reunion.
For questions or more information, contact Barbara Mullikin at westr073@ummn.edu.
Past Recipients
2019
Ada Collier
2016
Dereck Salisbury
2015
Erica Schorr
2014
Susan Henly
2013
Mary Benbenek
2012
Teddie Potter
2011
Linda Herrick
Georgia Nygaard
2010
Mary Chesney
2008
Lisa Carney Anderson
2007
Karen Dunlap
2006
Melissa Frisvold
2005
Linda Lindeke
2004
Susan O’Conner-Von
2003
Sharon Cross
2002
Mary Rowan
2001
Sharon Ridgeway
2000
Karen Alaniz
1999
Sheila Corcoran-Perry
Jennifer Peters
1998
Mariah Snyder
1997
Bonnie Harbaugh
1996
Donna Bliss
1995
Blossom Gullickson
Joan Stenberg
1994
Betty Lia-Hoagberg
1993
Kenneth Burns
1992
Bernadine Feldman
1991
Blossom Galluckson
1990
Patricia Chrisham
1989
Karen Alaniz
1988
Carol Pederson
1987
Dorothy Fairbanks
1986
Russel C. Johnson
1985
Mary Ann Anglim
1984
Elizabeth Colloton
Joan Stenberg
1982
Carol Reese