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Nominations being accepted for 2000 HSF Teaching Excellence awards  A call for nominations of faculty for the 2000 Health Sciences Foundation Teaching Excellence awards has been sent to all MUSC faculty and students.  The purpose of these awards is to recognize members of the MUSC faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the university through teaching.  Awards may be given from the following categories:  Educator-Mentor: For teaching excellence in non-traditional roles with individuals or small groups, specifically those who teach, mentor, or serve as professional role models in clinical practice or research.  Educator-Lecturer: For teaching excellence in traditional didactic or classroom teaching.  Developing Teacher: For teaching excellence demonstrated by a junior faculty member in either of the above categories. Any regular, full-time faculty member who holds an academic rank of instructor or higher in a college or department of MUSC who has not been the recipient of this award within the previous three years is eligible for nomination.  Faculty who are nominated in the Educator-Mentor or Educator-Lecturer categories must have taught at MUSC for three or more years.  Those nominated for the Developing Teacher category must have taught for a minimum of two years at MUSC, and no more than four years total at an institution of higher education. The HSF Teaching Excellence Awards program provides an opportunity to honor MUSC’s outstanding teachers, and reflects the institution’s strong commitment to its educational mission. Presented for the first time in 1995, these universitywide teaching awards were proposed as part of the university’s Educational Strategic Plan.  In addition to a commemorative medallion, plaque, and a specially designated parking space in “G” lot for one year, each recipient will receive a $3,000 cash award from the Health Sciences Foundation and a $1,000 professional development award. This year’s deadline for nominations is Feb.  28.    Nominees will be invited to submit supporting materials and a committee of faculty and students representing MUSC’s six colleges, Library Sciences and Informatics, and the Student Government Association will review the nominations and select the recipients for this year’s awards.  If you did not receive a form, you may obtain one by calling Cindy King at 792-1646 or e-mail kingcp@musc.edu.