(NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 29, 2007) – Wagner College presented its Alumni Fellows Award to Rutgers College of Nursing emerita faculty member Beverly Whipple during its alumni association luncheon on June 2.
Whipple was among the five alumni honored with this award. This is the second award that Wagner College presented to Whipple, professor emerita, at Rutgers College of Nursing. She received the Wagner College Alumni Achievement Award in 1983.
“I was very surprised and honored to receive this award from my alma mater,” said Whipple, a Voorhees, N.J., resident. “I am thrilled to be honored with a distinguished group of alumni whose contributions to their professions and communities have made an important and positive impact.”
Whipple earned a Ph.D, in 1986; M.Ed., 1967; and M.S., in 1987, degrees at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She completed her B.S. degree with a major in nursing at Wagner College in 1962.
Whipple’s research focused on women’s health issues and the sexual physiology of women. She is the co-author of the international bestseller, “The G Spot and Other Discoveries about Human Sexuality,” which has been translated into 19 languages and was re-published as a classic 23 years later in 2005. Her new book, “The Science of Orgasm,” published by Johns Hopkins University in late October 2006 is now in its second printing. She has co-authored three additional books and written more than 160 research articles and book chapters.
She was the president of AASECT, president of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), vice president of the World Association for Sexology, and was on the Board of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. Whipple is now the secretary general of the World Association for Sexual Health and is on the board of the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
From its headquarters at Rutgers Newark, Rutgers College of Nursing offers a broad range of academic programs on all three Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master’s program with unique practitioner specialties, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree, and the first to offer a Ph.D. nursing degree in New Jersey.