Dean Marcia J. Hern awards in Teaching and Research presented

The awards were created by Dean Hern for creative teaching and research. Each is a separate award worth $1000. These Hern Teaching and Hern Research awards will be granted each spring to eligible full-time, term, probationary, or tenured faculty.

Criteria for the Teaching Award include:

• Demonstrates excellence in innovative teaching and pedagogy
• Displays leadership in curriculum or innovative teaching and/or course development
• Contributes to the teaching mission of the SON and quality of student life
• Shows effective mentoring
• Designs creative and novel learning experiences
• Receives letters of acknowledgment of mentorship and support from colleagues
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge in content area
• Participates in faculty teaching development activities
• Earns honors and awards

Criteria for the Research Award include:

• Demonstrates excellence in conduct and dissemination of nursing research
• Displays a commitment to research demonstrated by an on-going program of scholarship
• Continued program of dissemination of research findings locally, regionally, nationally and internationally
• Collaborates with faculty & students
• Demonstrates evidence of interdisciplinary program of research
• Receives honors and awards reflecting excellence in scholarship
• Demonstrates research integrity
• Generates new nursing knowledge
• Translates/applies research into practice or policy