The School of Nursing is known throughout the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a School that nurtures and cultivates culturally sensitive and culturally competent students. Recognizing the students who take extra steps to provide the most inclusive healthcare possible is part of creating this type of student body.
Each year, the SON selects one student to receive the Kindred Spirits Award – an accolade given to a student whose coursework examines a subject using the lenses of race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and culture to analyze work in any discipline, or focuses on the contribution of women and men of all colors to society, history, culture or thought in any area of study.
All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to apply. Students can submit applications themselves or faculty and staff can submit an entry on a student’s behalf. Past winners, however, are ineligible.
Students can submit research papers, essays (academic, clinical and personal), and other written work from all courses. An interpretive essay should accompany poetry, visual arts, architectural plans, computer programs and statistical or laboratory work. If a student elects to submit an application in a language other than English, he or she must provide an English translation. Only one entry may be submitted per student.
To see previous winners, read more about the Kindred Spirits Award or to download an application, visit: http://nursing.unc.edu/departments/oma/awards.html
