Fourteen faculty members, celebrating service milestones of 40 and 30 years, will be recognized during today’s annual faculty meeting at 4 p.m. in the Durham Research Center Auditorium.
Chancellor to speak
UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., will give his annual address to the faculty at 4 p.m. today in the Durham Research Center Auditorium as part of the annual faculty meeting. Faculty Senate President Gay Canaris, M.D., assistant professor, internal medicine, College of Medicine, will provide an overview of the year’s activities. Following the address and the award presentations, Dr. Gold will host a reception in the center’s foyer.
Awards will be presented for Outstanding Teacher, Spirit of Community Service, Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Graduate Students and Outstanding Mentor of Junior Faculty, as well as the University of Nebraska’s Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA) and Outstanding Research and Creative Activity (ORCA) Award. Faculty members also will be recognized for their 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 years of service.
Below, two honorees share memorable moments:
Marlene Lindeman, assistant professor of psychiatric/mental health nursing, shares some of her favorite memories from the past 40 years.
Many of my fondest memories revolve around interactions and relationships I have developed with students, faculty, clients and clinical staff. While I have experienced many changes and innovations in academia, health care and clinical practice, the one constant for me is the essence of the human spirit in the development of communication and nurse-client relationship skills.
While I see myself as a facilitator, coach, and mentor to students, it is humbling and rewarding to now see those same students as fellow colleagues and practicing clinicians involved in pursuing their careers and passion for nursing. Recently, I had a reflective experience of being involved in an interactive case study discussion with a former undergraduate nursing student who is now a psychiatric nurse practitioner. It became apparent that she was now teaching, mentoring, and facilitating my growth and development. Those “circle-of-life” experiences make for some of my best memories
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Ernest Prentice, Ph.D. |
I taught gross anatomy to UNMC freshman medical students for more than 25 years and always dressed in a white shirt, dark tie and dark slacks. In the late 1980s, the medical students decided to have a “Dress like Dr. Prentice Day.” But, when I found out that all the medical students were dressed like me, I went home and changed into the grungiest pair of jeans I owned and a T-shirt with holes. Then, I surprised my students by showing up late, which I had never done before, and delivered the lecture in that attire. It was so comfortable that I thought it should be my dress code for all future lectures.
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