Awards Received by Our Faculty, Staff
Call for Nominations: SPH Faculty and P&A Awards
Nominations due by 12 p.m., Monday, April 16, 2012
The Charles N. Hewitt Creative Teaching Award ($1,500) recognizes outstanding faculty contributions in special areas such as a skilled teaching of large classes, continuing education, interscholastic education or learning technology.
The Leonard M. Schuman Award for Excellence in Teaching ($3,000) is the School’s highest honor and recognizes exceptional teachers who challenge students with articulate presentations and thought-provoking analyses.
The School of Public Health Award for Excellence in Advising ($3,000) recognizes School of Public Health faculty who are particularly outstanding in their roles as academic, field experience, or project/theses advisors.
New! The School of Public Health Outstanding Public Health Engagement Faculty Service Award [previously the SPH Community Service Award] ($1,500) honors faculty who have performed public health engagement service activities above and beyond the normal expectations of university life, and which are of outstanding quality and benefit to the public.
The School of Public Health P&A Excellence Award ($1,500) recognizes a member of the Academic Professional and Administrative (P&A) staff who has made distinguished contributions to the missions of the University of Minnesota and the School of Public Health.
Recipients are commemorated with a plaque, a permanent display in the School, and a cash award. The awards will be presented at the SPH Faculty Assembly meeting later this spring.
Past recipients of each award are listed below.
For each award nomination, please submit original application (hardcopy and electronic .pdf file) to:
Recognition, Awards and Honors Committee
c/o Stefannie Thompson
SPH Dean’s Office
MMC 197, A302 Mayo
AND stef@umn.edu
Nominations are due by 12 p.m. (noon) on Monday, April 16, 2012
Awards Presented by the SPH – 2011
The Charles N. Hewitt Creative Teaching Award ($1,500) recognizes outstanding faculty contributions in special areas such as a skilled teaching of large classes, continuing education, interscholastic education or learning technology.
2011 Recipient: Elizabeth Wattenberg, PhD, associate professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Right: Bill Toscano accepts for Elizabeth Wattenberg
The Leonard M. Schuman Award for Excellence in Teaching ($3,000) is the School’s highest honor and recognizes exceptional teachers who challenge students with articulate presentations and thought-provoking analyses.
2011 Recipient: Jean Abraham, assistant professor, Division of Health Policy and Management.
Right: Jean Abraham and John Finnegan
The School of Public Health P&A Excellence Award ($1,500) recognizes a member of the Academic Professional and Administrative (P&A) staff who has made distinguished contributions to the missions of the University of Minnesota and the School of Public Health.
2011 Recipient: Rich Portnoy,CAO/CFO, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Right: Rich Portnoy and John Finnegan
The School of Public Health Award forExcellence in Advising ($3,000) recognizes School of Public Health faculty who are particularly outstanding in their roles as academic, field experience, or project/theses advisors.
2011 Recipient: Jean Forster, PhD, professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Right: Jean Forster and John Finnegan
National Awards to Our Faculty in 2010-2011
Biostatistics faculty member Sudipto Banerjee won the 2011 Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association. This award, given annually since 1970, is presented to the nation’s most outstanding public health statistician under the age of 40.
Already the author of more than 60 refereed articles, Banerjee was recognized for pathbreaking contributions in four areas related to spatial and environmental statistics (wombling, coregionalization, spatially varying coefficients, and predictive processes). The committee also acknowledged his leadership and strong success in external funding, PhD supervision, short course instruction, software development, and journal editing and refereeing.
Epidemiology and Community faculty member Mary Story was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). IOM membership is a status considered to be one of the highest honors in the field of health sciences.
New members are elected by current active members through a highly selective process that considers an individual’s professional achievement and commitment to service. The IOM is unique in its structure as both an honorific membership organization and advisory organization.
In addition to being a professor, Story is SPH associate dean for student life and leadership.
Awards Presented by the SPH – 2010
The Leonard M. Schuman Award for Excellence in Teaching ($3,000) is the School’s highest honor and recognizes exceptional teachers who challenge students with articulate presentations and thought-provoking analyses.
2010 Recipient: Michael Oakes
The School of Public Health P&A Excellence Award ($1,500) recognizes a member of the Academic Professional and Administrative (P&A) staff who has made distinguished contributions to the missions of the University of Minnesota and the School of Public Health.
2010 Recipient: Gregory Grandits
The School of Public Health Award for Excellence in Advising ($3,000) recognizes School of Public Health faculty who are particularly outstanding in their roles as academic, field experience, or project/theses advisors.
2010 Recipient: Charles Oberg
Awards Presented by the SPH – 2009
The Charles N. Hewitt Creative Teaching Award ($1,500) recognizes outstanding faculty contributions in special areas such as a skilled teaching of large classes, continuing education, interscholastic education or learning technology.
2009 Recipient: Susan Telke
The Leonard M. Schuman Award for Excellence in Teaching ($3,000) is the School’s highest honor and recognizes exceptional teachers who challenge students with articulate presentations and thought-provoking analyses.
2009 Recipient: James Begun
The School of Public Health Community Service Award ($1,500) honors faculty who have performed public service activities above and beyond the norm, and which are of extraordinary quality and benefit to the public.
The School of Public Health P&A Excellence Award ($1,500) recognizes a member of the Academic Professional and Administrative (P&A) staff who has made distinguished contributions to the missions of the University of Minnesota and the School of Public Health.
2009 Recipient: Sharon Vegoe
The School of Public Health Award for Excellence in Advising ($3,000) recognizes School of Public Health faculty who are particularly outstanding in their roles as academic, field experience, or project/theses advisors.
2009 Recipient: Kristin Anderson
University Awards to Our Faculty – 2009
Kathleen Thiede Call received the University of Minnesota Outstanding Community Service Award. Call was recognized for working with community groups to improve access to health care.
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer received the Distinguished Women Scholars Award in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts from the University of Minnesota. She is a nationally noted expert in adolescent health and nutrition.
Susan Gerberich and Debra Olson were named among the 100 Distinguished Nursing Alumni and Centennial Distinguished Faculty Alumni from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. They were selected for their impact on communities, education, and the nursing profession.
National Awards to Our Faculty
Harry Lando received the John Slade Award from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. The award is presented to an individual who has made contributions to public health and tobacco control through science-based policy and advocacy.