Twenty-two IUPUI faculty, staff and students were honored last week for their significant leadership, achievement, advocacy, or support of gender equity, women’s empowerment, women’s history, or cultures of inclusion in celebration of National Women’s History Month. https://ofw.iupui.edu/Awards/Womens-History-Month-Awards/History/2022-Awards
The program is an annual event sponsored by the IUPUI Office for Women and the Division of Student Affairs in celebration of National Women’s History month. In 1987, after many states had declared March as “Women’s History Month”, Congress declared March as National Women’s History Month in perpetuity.
The IUPUI event has been held virtually for the last 2 years due to the pandemic but this year the reception took place in person in the Campus Center.
This month’s national theme, “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope” was addressed by a panel of representatives from several IUPUI health science schools discussing the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and how women in their professions responded. Speakers included: Tamara Davis, Dean, IU School of Social Work; Andrea Janota, Director of IUPUI ECHO Center, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health; NiCole Keith, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, IU School of Health and Human Sciences; Meg Moorman, Director, Faculty Innovating for Nursing Education Center, IU School of Nursing; and Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch, Dean, IU School of Dentistry.
2022 Award Winners are:
Faculty Winners
Margaret Adamek, Professor, IU School of Social Work
Andrea Copeland, Associate Professor, Library and Information Science, IU School of Informatics and Computing
Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch, Dean and Professor, IU School of Dentistry
Bethany Neal-Beliveau, Associate Professor, Psychology, IUPUI School of Science
Obioma Nnaemeka, Chancellor’s Professor, World Languages and Cultures, IU School of Liberal Arts
Katie Pettit, Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, IU School of Medicine
Elizabeth Yeh, Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, IU School of Medicine
Staff Winners
Kimberly Merritt, Managing Director of Alumni Relations, Office of Alumni Relations, IUPUI
Melissa Pollauf, Assistant Registrar, Office of the Registrar, IUPUI
Sydney Rucker, Director of Diversity Initiatives, Office of Diversity Affairs, IU School of Medicine
Karloa Stevens, Senior Equity Specialist and Investigator, Office of Equal Opportunity, IUPUI
Undergraduate Students
Sahar Abdullah, IU School of Informatics and Computing
Ishita Bhedi, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology
Rashi Dhenia, IU School of Liberal Arts and Purdue School of Engineering and Technology
Andrea Jacobson, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology
Harpreet Kaur, Purdue School of Science
Verayna Newland, Purdue School of Science
Katherine Shr, Purdue School of Science and IU Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Sumera Syeda, Purdue School of Science
Graduate/Professional students
Jocelyne Hernandez, IU School of Health & Human Sciences
Mikki Jaramillo, IU School of Dentistry
Kennedy Weaver, IU School of Health & Human Sciences