2010 Excellence in Academic Outreach
Ginger Evans
The 2010 Academic Outreach Award goes to Ginger Evans, a tenured faculty member of the College of Nursing since 1983. Evans is also a Clinical Nurse Specialist in adult psychiatric mental health and a certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner.
In addition to her faculty position, Evans is on call for the SAFE Center and Safe Haven and has performed more than 300 forensic exams on victims of sexual assault in local clinics and emergency rooms.
She shares her expertise with the community on behalf of victims of sexual assault, frequently testifying as a professional expert in assault cases, speaking to Knoxville Police Department recruits each year, and serving on the city’s Fatality Review Board and the Community Coalition for Family Violence.
In addition to her community involvement and tireless work in the classroom, Evans’s scholarship is evident in three peer-reviewed journal articles since 2004 and 33 conference proceedings in the past 10 years.
The Excellence in Academic Outreach honor is awarded to a faculty member whose extraordinary contributions to the public have occurred as an outgrowth of academic pursuits and are related to the University's academic mission.
The land-grant mission of the University of Tennessee directs us to use our intellectual capital to benefit the state's citizens. This honor goes to a faculty member who exemplifies excellence toward this mission.