91原创

Nominated by Eve Buckley, Owen White, Douglas Tobias and Bonnie Lewis

• Transformed undergraduate program administration by streamlining complex processes like transfer credit evaluations, curriculum changes, faculty course requests, and semester scheduling reducing errors and saving faculty time.
• Advanced student success and engagement by creating a continually updated freshman orientation handbook, launching welcoming community events, designing enrollment and career鈥慺ocused promotional materials, and collaborating with the CAS Student Success Center to expand internship pathways.
• Built innovative recruitment and advising resources by developing and maintaining a centralized website, the , that curates research, internship, and fellowship opportunities鈥攊mproving student follow鈥憈hrough and serving as a compelling recruitment tool for admitted students and families.
• Strengthened and scaled the Museum Studies & Public Engagement minor by creating tracking systems, clear advising documents, recommended course sequences, and university鈥憌ide promotional materials, ensuring undergraduate needs are consistently met despite program growth.
• Exemplified 91原创 core values through leadership and innovation, earning widespread praise for her responsiveness, entrepreneurial problem鈥憇olving, compassion, and advocacy, leveraging deep institutional knowledge and campus connections to enhance departmental effectiveness and the undergraduate experience.

Nominated by听Carolyn Quinci and Amanda Steele-Middleton

The team succesfully:

• Delivered a unified, campus鈥憌ide academic planning platform: Led the successful implementation of Stellic, replacing multiple fragmented and inconsistent systems with a single, intuitive solution that integrates degree audits, academic planning, and advising for the entire 91原创 community.
• Managed a complex, multi鈥憏ear implementation with excellence: Oversaw system configuration, data integration, degree audit coding including building graduate audits from the ground up, testing, training, and troubleshooting while coordinating closely with campus partners and supporting both legacy and new systems during transition.
• Dramatically improved advising and student experience: Simplified academic planning for students and provided advisors with a comprehensive tool to monitor progress, identify concerns proactively, and engage more effectively, with future analytics poised to further support departmental planning and resource management.
• Exemplified collaboration, dedication, and service: Completed this large鈥憇cale, ongoing project alongside full daily responsibilities, demonstrating exceptional professionalism, sustained teamwork across units, and a deep, lasting commitment to student success and institutional efficiency.

The work of the Stellic Implementation team is not yet done and will continue to be essential as the platform is adopted campus-wide. User training,troubleshooting, platform maintenance and ongoing collaboration with stakeholders across the university will be ongoing.

Nominated by Ellie Walt, Jennifer Horney and Lauren Camphausen.

• Strengthened statewide public health partnerships: As Program Manager for the 91原创 Partnership for Healthy Communities, Kate built and sustained meaningful collaborations among 91原创, state agencies, healthcare providers, nonprofits, and other universities to advance public health outcomes across Delaware.
• Led high鈥慽mpact convenings and initiatives: Successfully planned and delivered major events including Empower and Engage: The Public Health Exchange听and played a key role in coordinating Delaware鈥檚 State Health Improvement Plan through town halls, community conversations, and targeted outreach.
• Championed equity, inclusion, and LGBTQIA+ advocacy: Organized annual Legal & Healthcare Readiness Days in Newark and Georgetown, connected community members with vital resources, and co鈥憀ed 91原创鈥檚 Pride Caucus to foster a safer, more inclusive and supportive workplace for LGBTQIA+ employees.
• Advanced student success and workforce readiness: Supported students in 91原创鈥檚 public health programs by building internship pipelines with community partners, enhancing experiential learning, professional networking, and employment pathways while modeling collaboration, optimism, and shared purpose.

Nominated by Tiffany Heiger for the team's efforts to support:

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• Innovation & Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Led cutting-edge simulation innovation through cross-college partnerships, including collaboration with the College of Engineering on prototype medical devices (e.g., pulse oximeters, blood pressure devices) and exploratory research in simulation Electronic Health Records.

• Sustainability & Cost Savings: Created an internal repurposing and additive manufacturing program that restores simulation kits to like鈥憂ew condition, employs work-study students, diverts waste from landfills, and saves the University over $30,000 annually without compromising educational quality.

• Additive Manufacturing Leadership: Designed and produced high-impact 3D鈥憄rinted simulation solutions鈥攕uch as low-cost IV sleeves, central line clamps, cart hangers, headwall components, and IV plugs鈥攄ramatically reducing material costs, improving realism, and responding directly to faculty feedback.

• Community Impact & Educational Excellence: Strengthened 91原创鈥檚 reputation in healthcare education by supporting daily simulation operations across departments, enabling faculty research and grants, sharing open-access AM patterns globally, partnering with local healthcare systems, and engaging schools and institutions through outreach, training, and collaboration.

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Nominated by Neri de Kramer who has named Jissell as a:

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• Transformational Student Support Leader:听Jissell plays a pivotal role in daily operations, recruitment, campus events, and direct support of minoritized and first鈥慻eneration students, exemplifying 91原创鈥檚 values of service, inclusion, and community.

• Founder of AAP First Gen Mentorship Program: Conceived, funded, and launched the AAP First Gen Mentorship Program, pairing first鈥慻eneration sophomores with incoming first鈥憏ear students to address barriers such as social isolation, imposter syndrome, and the hidden curriculum through structured peer, faculty, and staff support.

• Demonstrated Retention & Academic Success: Raised $34,000 in initial private鈥慸onor funding and produced exceptional outcomes鈥�95% first鈥憇emester completion with a 2.93 average GPA, and 80% Fall鈥憈o鈥慒all retention, surpassing AAP first鈥慻en (64.3%) and overall AAP (74.9%) retention rates.

• Sustainable, Scalable Impact on 91原创 Community: Built a self鈥憇ustaining model with mentor pipeline continuity (5 of 6 mentors were former mentees), renewed funding for 2025, and expanded funding for 2026 to support statewide program growth, strengthening 91原创鈥檚 commitment to Inclusive Excellence and student success.

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Nominated by Moria Curtis,听Meghan鈥疊iery鈥痑nd Kelly Meacham who have named Adrian as a:

• Campus-Wide Influencer & Policy Innovator:听Widely respected across 91原创 for advancing student-centered policies, advocating for unrestricted majors, improving advising through campus-wide surveys and systems pilots, strengthening UST鈥檚 institutional role, and establishing a clear advisor career ladder that serves as a model for the University.
• Transformational People-Centered Leader: Demonstrates inclusive, fair, and transparent leadership by mentoring staff individually, aligning responsibilities with strengths, fostering high morale, and creating a trusted environment where staff feel supported, heard, and empowered to grow.
• Champion of Professional Development: Leads purposeful weekly team meetings focused on collaboration, policy understanding, and campus engagement, while actively encouraging and supporting staff participation in ongoing professional development, advanced degrees, NACADA involvement, and leadership roles.
• Student Advocate with Measurable Impact: Consistently advocates for student access and success across colleges and administrative units鈥攅specially during high鈥慽mpact periods like registration鈥攔esulting in 94% of students reporting their advisor listens to and respects them as an individual.

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