March 9, 2010
Nina Zuna of MCPER’s Autism Spectrum Disorders Institute has been awarded the Jay Turnbull Fellowship. The fellowship was created in 2008 to enable “researchers and doctoral students affiliated with the Beach Center to carry on the work of creating communities in which people with disabilities may live as Jay did—a life shaped by his own choices and values, a life characterized by giving to others, unconditionally and nonjudgmentally embracing them, and proving that fellowship sustains us all,” according to the website of the Beach Center on Disabilities at the University of Kansas. Turnbull’s mother, Ann Turnbull, made the announcement at MCPER’s 2010 Mollie Villeret Davis Distinguished Lecture.