Nursing faculty and staff receive annual awards

Six faculty and one staff member from the UNMC College of Nursing received awards during the college’s 2011 Faculty-Staff Annual Meeting May 11 in Lincoln.

Award recipients and the awards were (award in parenthesis):

  • Michele Balas, Ph.D., (Pennie Z. Davis Faculty Research Award);
  • Paula Schulz, Ph.D., (Donna Westmoreland Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award);
  • Peggy Wilson, Ph.D., (Rosalee Yeaworth Teaching Excellence Award);
  • Shirley Wiggins, Ph.D., (Kathryn Sandahl Philp Award for Creativity and Innovation);
  • Peggy Pelish, Ph.D., (Ada Lindsey Professional Service Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice);
  • Debbi Lee, (Staff Excellence Award); and
  • Margaret Kaiser, Ph.D., (Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award).

Also, the college’s Kearney Division faculty received the Spirit of Shared Governance Award.