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

NOMINATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 25 JANUARY

The Center for Social Concerns is pleased to announce that nominations for the Ganey Award, a monetary award of $5,000, are now being accepted. 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; and
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.

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.”

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.

Learn more about the 2007 Ganey Award Winner

Learn more about the 2006 Ganey Award Winner

Learn more about the 2005 Ganey Award Winner

Learn more about the 2004 Ganey Award Winner

2007 AWARD WINNER

Silliman

Stephen E. Silliman

Stephen E. Silliman is Professor of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Engineering. Dr. Silliman's extensive record of publication includes field research in ground water science as well as papers discussing the incorporation of his research into his teaching. More recently, his scholarly work has been primarily in Benin, Africa. Since 2002, the project has evolved with an ever-increasing contribution by undergraduate and graduate students. Locally, Dr. Silliman's students have studied the impact of a local landfill on groundwater supplies, and examined whether extensive pesticide and herbicide use on former farmland would hinder the property being converted into a county park and environmental-education center.

2006 AWARD WINNER [click here]

Borkowski

John G. Borkowski

John G. Borkowski is McKenna Family Professor of Psychology and co-Director of Notre Dame’s Center for Children and Families. He is author or co-author of six books, including Parenting and the child’s world: Influences on intellectual, academic, and social-emotional development, and many other publications. He is currently engaged in a National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development sponsored multi-site intervention project designed to better understand the factors that lead to child abuse and neglect in at-risk mothers. Locally, his project with graduates students, My Baby and Me, works with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program, School Age Mothers Program (SAMP) and Hannah’s House to reduce child neglect among high-risk mothers by helping them create new parenting styles.