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Nominations being accepted for teaching awards A call for nominations for the 2006 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 for no more than four years total at an institute of higher education.   Presented for the first time in 1995, these university-wide teaching awards were proposed as part of MUSC’s Educational Strategic Plan. In addition to a commemorative medallion, each recipient will receive a cash award from the Health Sciences Foundation.   The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24.   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.   Forms may be obtained and submitted online at http://www.itlab.musc.edu/nomination/.   For more information, call Marcia Higaki at 792-2340.     Friday, Jan. 20, 2006 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778, ext. 201.