Carol Stewart, a research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, has been named the 2001 Michigan Registered Nurse of the Year. The award acknowledges a varied and successful career that has included countless research and patient-care accomplishments over the past 38 years.

Building on a career-long commitment to helping children and families deal with psychiatric disorders, Stewart has spent the past five years serving as clinical coordinator for Dr. David Rosenberg's groundbreaking MRI studies with children and adolescents.

Before coming to WSU in 1996, Stewart had most recently completed a manual to better enable home-care providers to treat psychiatric patients on Medicare. The manual is one of more than 20 publications Stewart has written. The list will soon include a guidebook to medications for children with psychiatric disorders.

Stewart received her award at a special luncheon at the Embassy Suites in Troy on May 9. The award, sponsored by the Michigan Nursing Association and Detroit Newspapers, attempts to recognize the often under-appreciated work of the state's nurses.