Awards

Marita Titler, professor of nursing and associate dean for practice and clinical scholarship development, School of Nursing, was honored with the President’s Award at the annual Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research Nightingala dinner in Washington, D.C. Titler was recognized for her work in translational research and for her long-standing commitment to nursing research.

Donna Marvicsin, clinical assistant professor of nursing, School of Nursing, recently was chosen to receive a $1.5 million award from the Division of Nursing at the Health Resources and Services Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration. This three-year grant provides infrastructure support to consolidate and expand the School of Nursing’s two nurse-managed health clinics, currently affiliated with the U-M Health System, into one large clinic.

Sonia Duffy, associate professor of nursing, School of Nursing, research associate professor, otorhinolaryngology, and research associate professor, psychiatry, Medical School, has received a four-year, $3.3 million award from the National Institutes of Health for her study Dissemination of Tobacco Tactics versus 1-800-QUIT-NOW for Hospitalized Smokers. A key component of Duffy’s intervention is that it is delivered by nurses.

Dr. Carolyn Sampselle, Carolyne K Davis Collegiate Professor, professor of nursing, School of Nursing, professor of women’s studies, LSA, and professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Medical School, received a $3 million, five-year award from National Institutes of Health for her study Translating Unique Learning for Incontinence Prevention: The TULIP Project award. The study has a long-range objective to provide a wide-ranging urinary incontinence prevention intervention.

Jessica Robbins, a doctoral student in anthropology, recently was awarded a $5,000 Road Scholar K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Research Grant for 2010. Road Scholar, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to lifelong learning, presents the merit-based grant to a student whose doctoral research will have a significant impact on the field of lifelong or later-life learning. Robbins says the grant will support her research on how the personhood of older adults is bound up with broader social, cultural, political and economic conditions.