Connie M. Ulrich, the Lillian S. Brunner Chair in Medical and Surgical Nursing and a professor of nursing in the department of biobehavioral health sciences in Penn Nursing, has received the Welch/Woerner Path-Paver Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. The award is given to a mid-to-late career nurse scientist who has achieved one or more breakthroughs in theory development, research methods, instruments, or subject matter who has paved the way for other scientists and who has influenced and mentored the next generation of nurse researchers.