Scholars

Angela Alston 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Angela Alston, Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc./Ada Mutch/NEF scholarship winner, is a North Carolina native currently pursuing her Doctoral degree at Ohio State University, where she also earned bo... read more.

Priscilla Hall 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Priscilla Hall, winner of the Judith Whittaker scholarship, is pursuing her doctorate at Emery University where her area of interest is the stress response of women during labor, especially as it relates to the experiences of coping. As a nurse-midwi... read more.

Katharine Haxall 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Katharine Haxall is using her Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc./Ada Mutch/NEF scholarship to pursue a BS/MS degree at Columbia University. Prior to pursuing the role of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner,... read more.

Amity Heinbuck 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Amity Heinbuck, NEF awardee, started her nursing career in 2007 after working as a medical Laboratory Technician for 8 years. After receiving her Associate Degree of Nursing she worked as a labor and delivery nurse, a career she loves. She is continu... read more.

Tristen Hensen 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Tristen Hensen is using her NEF scholarship to pursue a Master’s in Nursing Administration and Management from Norwich University. During the past 3 years she has worked on an Orthopedic/Trauma/Plastics medical-surgical floor and for 2 of those years... read more.

Sirena Hughes 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Sirena Hughes, NSNA winner, is currently enrolled in the Nurse Anesthesia program at Villanova University. After getting her BSN she worked in a Pediatrics Intensive Care unit at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It was here that she was inspired to... read more.

Sheryl Leary 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Sheryl Leary, Isabel Hampton Robb scholarship winner, is pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of San Diego while working as a clinical nurse specialist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. As a military spouse she has moved... read more.

Helen Masters 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Helen Masters, Liesel M. Hiemenz award winner, worked as a Med/Surg nurse at Crittenden Regional Hospital but came to realize that her passion is oncology and the reason she became a nurse in the first place. She now works weekends providing direct p... read more.

Mark McGraw 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Mark McGraw, winner of the MIRIAM POWELL scholarship, has been interested in pursuing a career as a nurse anesthetist since he got his BSN from the University of Delaware. After college he entered the critical care nurse internship program at Christi... read more.

Laura Mood 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Laura Mood who won the Margaret Tyson scholarship, has been a registered nurse for 17 years working in a peri-operative setting in multiple capacities. After earning her MSN from the University of Michigan she went on to teach as a full time instruct... read more.

Shaini Moonjeli 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Shaini Moonjeli, winner of the A.J.N. SCHOLARSHIP, began her career as a staff nurse in 1994 in a rural hospital in India. Currently she is working as an Advanced Nurse Clinician in the Coronary Care Unit at Emory University Hospital and studying in... read more.

Njoki Ng'Anga 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Njoki Ng’anga is using her Elizabeth Carnegie scholarship towards a PhD degree at Columbia University. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at the School of Nursing’s Center for Children and Families. She obtained her MSc in Health Systems from the Lond... read more.

Tara O'Brien 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Tara O'Brien is a second time winner of an NEF scholarship (this time the Evelyn Barclay award) as she continues working toward her PhD at the Medical University of South Carolina where her research topic is obesity among Appalachian women. Her futur... read more.

Alisa Pascale 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Alisa Pascale, winner of the Eleanor Lambertsen award, is a certified women’s health practitioner who spent the first 2 years of her NP career living and working in Cuba, New Mexico, with the Navajo Native Americans. Today she is practicing at Vincen... read more.

Kathryn Phillips 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Kathryn Phillips, the Lucy Perry scholarship winner, originally started her career in the business field after obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. After working a while in the business sector she took a position in long term c... read more.

Rafael Jose Ramos 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Rafael Jose Ramos is using his NEF scholarship award as a graduate student of Nursing Anesthesia at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He worked for 3 years at a Cardio-thoracic Intensive Care Unit at Stanford Hospitals in California before d... read more.

Jana Ryan 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jana Ryan, ISABEL McISAAC Scholarship, is completing her work toward an MSN at St. Louis University in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track and plans to test for her ANCC certification in January. For the last 8 years she has wor... read more.

Faresha Sims 2012-2013 Winner | Master’s Degree: Faresha Sims, winner of the ESTELLE OSBORNE scholarship, is a native Mississippian who is presently attending Virginia Commonwealth University Nurse Anesthesia Program. After completing her first year of advance practice study in the field of nurse a... read more.

Heather Warlan 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Heather Warlan is using her Barbara Tate scholarship towards her second year of pursuing a doctorate at the University of San Diego. Her undergraduate degree was in Psychology. She has worked as a research coordinator and eventually the assistant man... read more.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Anne Batchelder

(2023-2024 Winner)

Anne Batchelder is the recipient of NEF Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship, given to a doctoral applicant in nursing education or administration. Anne is currently a PhD Candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of... read more.

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