Accolades

Aug. 7, 2014

Sinclair School of Nursing Staff Member Wins Award

Jessica Mueller was surprised in her office and given the MU Service Champion Award from the Staff Advisory Council.

April 28, 2014

SSON Ranked Best Program in the Nation

April 28, 2014 COLUMBIA, Mo – The University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing (SSON) was rated as the best nursing school program in the country by CollegeAtlas.org. The school is dedicated to making its students the best educated and most qualified nursing students by the time they graduate. SSON has always been helping aspiring students and education minded professionals make better, more informed choices by providing them with relevant, reliable and up-to-date information about college and higher education opportunities. SSON is dedicated to discovering new knowledge and implementing best practices in teaching, research and service. Our students get the…

Oct. 28, 2013

Associate Professor Inducted as AAN Fellow

Oct. 28, 2013 Columbia, Mo. — Maithe Enriquez, an associate professor in the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing (MU SSON), was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing Oct. 19 at the Academy’s 40th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Enriquez, a nurse practitioner, volunteers one day a week at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, where she provides primary care for adults living with HIV disease. She has focused her research and clinical career on enhancing health outcomes for underserved low-income individuals of color and individuals living with HIV disease. Her research largely centers…

Sep. 16, 2013

MU Sinclair School of Nursing’s Ruppar Named a 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ‘Nurse Faculty Scholar’

Sept. 16, 2013 Columbia, Mo. — Todd Ruppar, PhD, RN, GCNS-BC, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing, is one of just 12 nursing educators from across the United States to win a highly competitive grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse Faculty Scholars program this year. Ruppar will receive a three-year, $350,000 award to promote his academic career and support his research. The Nurse Faculty Scholar award is given to junior faculty who show outstanding promise as future leaders in academic nursing. “This award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides a…

June 18, 2013

Nursing Faculty Member Receives National Fellowship

June 18, 2013 Columbia, Mo. — Patricia Schnitzer, an associate professor in the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing (MU SSON) has been selected as the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellow. This 13-month, full-time fellowship with the NCHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) brings a visiting scholar in a health services research-related discipline to the NCHS in Hyattsville, Maryland, to conduct studies of interest to policymakers and the health services research community. “This fellowship recognizes Dr. Schnitzer’s outstanding research accomplishments and potential for further major advances in science,” said Vicki Conn, MU…

June 18, 2013

MU Nursing Faculty Member Receives Two-Year Fellowship

The Claire M. Fagin Fellows are highly skilled scholars deeply committed to improving health care for aging patients

June 5, 2013

Nursing Faculty Member Receives UM President’s Economic Development Award

Rantz has spent more than 30 years working with the aging population and conducting research to improve seniors’ quality of life.

June 5, 2013

Nursing Faculty Member Receives UM President’s Inter-Campus Collaboration Award

June 5, 2013 Columbia, Mo. — Debra Gayer, associate professor in the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing (MU SSON), was recently honored with the University of Missouri System President’s Award for Inter-Campus Collaboration. Gayer shared the award with colleagues at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and University of Missouri–Kansas City Schools of Nursing: Dawn Garzón and Susan Farberman, UMSL, and Diane King and Virginia Rahm, UMKC. Each member of the group received a $2,000 award. Robert Schwartz, UM President’s Office chief of staff, surprised Gayer with the award in front of her colleagues and students. The Inter-Campus Collaboration…