College of Nursing Faculty Awards:
Teaching Excellence 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 Recipients:
Clinical Track - Olivia Croskey
Instructional Track - Amanda Richardson
Tenure Track - Natany Ferreira Oberfrank
Past Recipients:
2024 Clinical Track - Amalia Gedney-Lose
2024 Instructional Track - Molly Frommelt-Kuhle
2024 Tenure Track - Allison Chi
2023 Clinical Track - Ann Weltin
2023 Instructional Track - Jessica Ashlock
2023 Tenure Track - Anna Krupp
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
Scholarship Award
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:
Yamnia Cortes
Past Recipients:
2024 - Allison Chi
2020 - Emily Sinnwell
Practice Leadership Award
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:
Daniel Wesemann
Past Recipients:
2024 - Emily Ford
2023 – Emily Sinnwell
2022 – Maria Lofgren
2021 – Tess Judge-Ellis
2019 – Larry Newman
Professional Service Award
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:
Julie Stanik-Hutt
Past Recipients:
2024 - Janet Williams
2023 – Heather Bair
2022 – Lindell Joseph
2021 – Lisa Segre
2019 – Daniel Wesemann
Faculty Mentor Award
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:
Leah Buck
Past Recipients:
2024 – Stephanie Gilbertson White
2023 – Karen Dunn Lopez
2022 – Julie Stanik-Hutt
2020 – Diane Huber
2019 – Susan Van Cleve
Dean’s Award
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:
Ann Weltin
Past Recipients:
2024 – Cormac O’Sullivan
2023 – Daniel Crawford
2022 – Melissa Lehan Mackin
2021 – Amalia Gedney-Lose
2020 – Emily SInnwell
Student Mentorship Award, Undergraduate/Graduate Students
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 – Olivia Croskey
Graduate – Barb St. Marie
Past Recipients:
2024 Graduate – Young-Eun Cho
2023 Undergraduate – Sarah McVeigh
2023 Graduate – Larry Newman
2022 Undergraduate – Jan Miller
2022 Graduate – Daniel Crawford
2021 – Andrea Achenbach
2020 – Stephanie Gilbertson White
Innovation Award
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:
Syeda Thomas
Past Recipients:
2024 – Heather Bair
2023 – Theresa Bechtel
2022 – Krista Ford
2020 – Amany Farag
Daisy Faculty Award
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:
Theresa Bechtel
Past Recipients:
2024 – Syeda Thomas
2023 – Brenda Duree
2022 – Francis Kuehnle
2021 – Daniel Wesemann
2020 – N/A
2019 – Andrea Achenbach
2018 – Michael Anderson
2017 – Heather Bair
2016 – Lindell Joseph
2015 – Nancy Downing
2014 – Jill Valde
2013 – Veronica Brighton
2012 – Paula Mobily
Research and Clinical Partnership Award
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:
Juliana De Souza Talarico, Larry Newman
Past Recipients:
2024 – Julie Vignato, Emily Sinnwell
2023 – Lynette Cooper, Melissa Lehan-Mackin
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
March 3
Nominations Due