Three Cheers for Three Women Award Winners

Jeretta Horn Nord, professor of management science and information systems at the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, received the Special Recognition Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education. She will receive the award at the association’s annual conference in Orlando this October.

Professor Nord has been on the OSU faculty for 25 years. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant and an educational doctorate from Oklahoma State University.

Terry Fulmer, a professor of nursing at New York University and currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, was chosen to receive the 2011 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award from the Gerontological Society of America. The award is given for outstanding and sustained contributions to geriatric nursing research.

Dr. Fulmer will be presented with the award at the society’s annual meeting in Boston this November.

Professor Fulmer joined the NYU nursing faculty in 1995. She is a graduate of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. She earned master’s and doctorate degrees at Boston College.

Leslie Tuttle, an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, won the 2011 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award. Professor Tuttle was honored for her book Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Professor Tuttle joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in 1997. She holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University.