On Campus — November 29, 2011
MU nursing professor recognized with national award
Marylin Rantz, a professor within the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, was recently recognized for winning the 2011 Nurse Leader in Aging Award from the American Academy of Nursing, according to an MU news release.
According to the release, Rantz formally received the award on Nov. 16 at the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Leadership Conference, held this year in Boston, Mass.
Rantz has been a member of MU since 1992. During her career, Rantz helped to create the Tigerplace, a retirement home that aims to help keep senior citizens healthy in a nurturing, home environment.
National Science Foundation gifts MU $3 million
Due to a shortage of nuclear scientist in the U.S., MU recently received $3 million from the National Science Foundation to continue to train future generations of scientists with an emphasis on neutron scattering experiment, according to an MU news release.
According to the release, the funding award comes from the NSF’s Interactive Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program.
“MU’s Research Reactor (MURR) is a unique facility on MU’s campus that gives us a fantastic opportunity for training scientists to use the current neutron scattering techniques,” Haskell Taub, a professor of physics in the College of Arts and Science and director of the training program, said in the release.