The Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D., Faculty Community-Based Research Award

The Center for Social Concerns is pleased to be able to offer this award as it helps to fulfill a portion of its mission to create “…educational and service experiences in collaboration with diverse partners, calling us all to action for a more just and humane world.”

Nominees should be regular faculty (as described below) who have completed at least one research project that addresses a need within South Bend or the surrounding area.

Greater consideration will be given if the community-based research project or projects for which the individual is nominated:

• Address a question raised by a local community group;
• Involve collaboration with a local organization;
• Include graduate or undergraduate students.

In addition, the nominee should have a record of publication in his or her field, or other forms of evidence of work valued in his or her area of expertise (juried exhibitions, distributed films, etc.).

The nominator should submit a letter describing how one research project, or a representative project from a larger body of work, has impacted the South Bend area and Notre Dame students. Nominators may include Notre Dame faculty, students, and staff, or individuals not affiliated with Notre Dame.

Nominees should be regular faculty (teaching-and-research faculty, research faculty, library faculty, and special professional faculty) or emeritus faculty. Individuals may nominate themselves.

Questions or comments about the Award, please contact Mary Beckman.

* Regular Faculty includes Teaching-and-Research Faculty, Research Faculty, Library Faculty, and Special Professional Faculty, as described in the Faculty Handbook. Faculty holding emeritus status may be nominated.

Rodney Ganey, Ph.D., who is funding this award, served as Associate Director of Notre Dame's Laboratory for Social Research and as a Concurrent Faculty member in the Department of Sociology from 1980 to 1996. During that time, he encouraged community-based research initiatives of fellow Faculty members and graduate students in many ways. Ganey is founder of Press, Ganey Associates, the nation's leading research firm specializing in patient-satisfaction measurement. This award is one element of an initiative in community-based research through the Center for Social Concerns that Dr. Ganey has established as a way of deepening the university's stated commitment to place learning at the service of society.

2009 Ganey Award Winner, Daniel Lende, Anthropology.

Learn more about previous winners:

2008 Ganey Award Winner, Mark Schurr, Anthropology.

2007 Ganey Award Winner, Stephen E. Silliman, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences.

2006 Ganey Award Winner, John G. Borkowski, Psychology.

2005 Ganey Award Winner, Felicia LeClere, Sociology.

2004 Ganey Award Winner, F. Clark Power, Liberal Studies and Psychology.

2009 AWARD WINNER

Daniel Lende

Daniel Lende, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and fellow at Notre Dame, is the 2009 Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D. Faculty Community-Based Research Award winner.

Lende’s work focuses on medical anthropology, the synthesis of biological and cultural anthropology, and applied anthropology. His research centers on behavioral health problems, particularly substance use and abuse.

In spring 2005, Dr. Lende undertook his first community-based research project, “Cultural Barriers and African-American Women in South Bend: Improving Breast Cancer Screening.”

In 2006, with a grant from the Center for Social Concerns, Lende’s work with undergraduates evolved into the community-based research course “Researching Disease: Methods in Medical Anthropology.”

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