College of Nursing Faculty Awards:

***Different from the Collegiate Teaching Award***

Tenure Track Teaching Award, Clinical Track Teaching Award, and Instructional Track Teaching Award

The Faculty Teaching Excellence Award honors a faculty member who contributes to the teaching mission of the College of Nursing by going above and beyond traditional and required teaching responsibilities to engage, coach, and inspire students.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Clinical Track - Ann Weltin
Instructional Track - Jessica Ashlock
Tenure Track - Anna Krupp

Past Recipients:

2022 Clinical Track - Jodi Bloxham
2022 Instructional Track - Lorraine Femino

2021 Clinical Track - Cormac O'Sullivan
2021 Instructional Track - Theresa Bechtel
2021 Tenure Track - Jacinda Bunch

2020 Clinical Track - Virginia Conley
2020 Instructional Track - Kelly Potter
2020 Tenure Track - Catherine Cherwin

2019 Clinical Track - Heather Bair
2019 Instructional Track - Francis Kuehnle
2019 Tenure Track - Patricia Groves

The recipient of the Scholarship Award demonstrates a significant impact on advancing nursing knowledge through distinguished and sustained contributions to nursing and/or healthcare scholarship.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Allison Chi

Past Recipients:

2020 - Emily Sinnwell

The Practice Leadership Award honors a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in patient-centric clinical or professional practice that enhances scholarship and education.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Emily Sinnwell

Past Recipients:

2022 - Maria Lofgren

2021 - Tess Judge-Ellis

2019 - Larry Newman

The Professional Service Award is given in recognition of exemplary contributions to institutional and/or professional service that go above and beyond existing faculty expectations.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient: 

Heather Bair

Past Recipients:

2022 - Lindell Joseph

2021 - Lisa Segre

2019 - Daniel Wesemann

The Faculty Mentor Award recipient demonstrates a commitment to foster scholarship and ongoing professional development in other members of the faculty through wise counsel, coaching, and facilitating opportunities for achievement. The recipient embraces a senior-to-junior or peer-to-peer supportive relationship to guide, advise and provide feedback.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Karen Dunn Lopez

Past Recipients:

2022 - Julie Stanik-Hutt

2020 - Diane Huber

2019 - Susan Van Cleve

The Dean’s Award recognizes a faculty member that epitomizes the mission and vision of the College of Nursing. The recipient demonstrates exemplary leadership through innovative and impactful education, research, clinical scholarship, service, and professional practice. In addition, the awardee supports the College of Nursing Pillars of Diversity: Awareness, Integrity, Caring, Respect, Learning, Collaboration, and Cultural Humility.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Daniel Crawford

Past Recipients:

2022 - Melissa Lehan Mackin

2021 - Amalia Gedney-Lose

2020 - Emily SInnwell

The recipient of the Student Mentorship Award demonstrates a commitment to foster scholarship and ongoing professional development in undergraduate or graduate students through wise counsel, coaching, and facilitating opportunities for achievement. Separate awards may be given for undergraduate and graduate mentorship.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Undergraduate - Sarah McVeigh
Graduate - Larry Newman

Past Recipients:

2022 Undergraduate - Jan Miller
2022 Graduate - Daniel Crawford

2021 - Andrea Achenbach

2020 - Stephanie White

The Innovation Award honors a faculty member who demonstrates a commitment to innovation by re-envisioning traditional models, approaches, concepts, or methods. The awardee exhibits a forward-thinking approach that stimulates, inspires and challenges the status quo.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Theresa Bechtel

Past Recipients:

2022 - Krista Ford

2020 - Amany Farag

The purpose of the DAISY Faculty Award (formerly the “Nurse Educator Excellence Award”) is to recognize and reward excellence as a nurse educator at the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Candidates should demonstrate evidence of innovation as a nurse educator, as an educational leader, and as a mentor and role model to students and may be a lecturer/assistant-in-instruction, clinical track, or tenure track. The DAISY Faculty Award is in collaboration with the AACN.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipient:

Brenda Duree

Past Recipients:

2022 – Francis Kuehnle

2021 – Daniel Wesemann

2020 – none awarded

2019 – Andrea Achenbach

2018 – Michael Anderson

2017 – Heather Bair

2016 – Maria Lindell Joseph

2015 – Nancy Downing

2014 – Jill Valde

2013 – Veronica Brighton

2012 – Paula Mobily

Excellence in advancing the College of Nursing mission in research, teaching and practice is increasingly exemplified in synergistic collaborations between clinical and tenure track faculty. The purpose of the Research and Clinical Partnership Award is to recognize and reward innovative faculty partnerships in the integration of research, education and/or clinical expertise.

Award criteria and nomination information (pdf)

Current Recipients:

Lynette Cooper, Melissa Lehan-Mackin

Past Recipients:

2022 – Heather Dunn, Anna Krupp

2021 – N/A

2020 – N/A

2019 – Jacinda Bunch, Cormac O’Sullivan, April Prunty

2018 – Howard Butcher, Dan Wesemann

2017 – Michael Anderson, Victoria Steelman

2016 – Ann Rhodes, Lisa Segre

2015 – N/A

2014 – Jan Foote, Pam Mulder

2013 – N/A

2012 – Martha Driessnack, Paula Mobily, Anita Stineman

Feb. 29

Nominations Due

Nomination Deadline

The nomination period for the 2023-2024 awards is now closed.

Please contact Molly James, molly-james@uiowa.edu, with questions.