Alumni, faculty and students are invited to nominate faculty members of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (EACPHS) for the first Prism Prize honoring innovation in teaching.

The award of $1,500 and a plaque will be presented to a faculty member who best exemplifies the principles of service learning and the impact on peers, students and community. The Prism Prize recipient will be announced at the faculty/staff meeting in January.

Eligible for the award are full or part-time EACPHS faculty members who incorporate the service learning principles of community, active engagement of students and reflection/debriefing into a course or learning experiences. These principles may be applied to:

Academic preparation by students, such as orientation to special populations or situations

Personal journals

Individual and group reflection, either verbal or written

Service to the community

Academic summary to serve as a recap of entire learning experience and description of relevance of experience to respective discipline

Outcomes, long-term impact for community and students

Honor or academic societies.

Please complete the attached nomination form and return to Johnnie Bennett, Office of the Dean,

Suite 2600

, or email to jbennet@wayne.edu no later than Friday, Dec. 21. Nomination Form

Reviewing the nominations for the Prism Prize for Innovation in Teaching will be a selection committee comprised of members from the college's Excellence in Teaching Award Committee. In addition, the committee will include a person with service learning expertise and at least one student.

Retiring in 2005 from the college, Wyn Schumann, former assistant dean for Student and Alumni Affairs, established the fund to provide a $1,500 EACPHS Prism Prize for Innovation in Teaching annually for five years. The word "prism" is used to describe teaching as a source of light that spreads to students and community

The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, a founding college of Wayne State University, is committed to advancing the health and well-being of society through the preparation of highly skilled health care practitioners, and through research to improve health care practices and treatment from the urban to global levels.

Wayne State University is a world class institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 11 schools and colleges to more than 33,000 students in metropolitan Detroit.