Briyana Morrell, a Ph.D. student in the School of Nursing and Assistant Professor at the University of Indianapolis, Indiana was awarded Teacher of the 2016 Teacher of the Year and was awarded a scholarship from the Sigma Theta Tau (Lambda Epsilon).

Briyana had her article "Two Paths to Competency Validation: A Pilot for Use of Exemplars and Simulation for Validating Nurses' Responses to Patients with Opiate-Induced Respiratory Depression" published the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. 32(6):331-334