Scholars


Abigail Wilpers 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Abigail Wilpers, MSN, WHNP-BC is the 2018 recipient of the Edith M. Pritchard Scholarship. Abigail is a doctoral candidate at Yale University with 10 years of experience working with families whose pregnancies have become complicated by a fetal anoma... read more.

Lisa Woodley 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Lisa K. Woodley, MSN, RN, CNE, CHPN is the 2018 recipient of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. Lisa is a fourth year PhD student at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro, N.C., as well as an Assistant Professor at UNC at Chapel Hil... read more.

Jennifer Alderman 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Jennifer T. Alderman, MSN, RNC-OB, CNL, is the 2017 recipient of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. Jennifer, a native of North Carolina, received a BSN from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1997 and worked as a labor and delivery... read more.

Linda Armstrong 2017-2018 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship
Linda Armstrong is a recipient of the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholarship. Linda is pursuing a master’s degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner, subspecializing i... read more.

Mary Ashong 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Mary is the recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Evelyn J. Barclay Fund Scholarship. After spending many years raising a family, Mary was drawn to the nursing field by some touching experiences she encountered as a patient. She was inspire... read more.

Naresa Baksh 2017-2018 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship
Naresa Baksh is the recipient of the Laura D. Smith National Student Nurses' Association Scholarship. Naresa received her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Hunter College in New York City. She is currently pursuing her Masters... read more.

Casey Cassidy 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Winner of the Margaret Gould Tyson Scholarship, Casey Cassidy, holds a bachelor of science in nursing from East Central University, and a master of science in nursing from Oklahoma Baptist University. The focus of Casey’s graduate research is the use... read more.

Molly Condit 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Molly is the recipient of the Barbara L. Tate Scholarship. She earned her BSN from Bellin College of Nursing 1n 1999 and has been a nurse for 18 years. Molly began her nursing career as a trauma nurse at Parkland Memorial Hospital. She earned her MS... read more.

Yvette Conyers 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Yvette N. Conyers recipient of the Liesel M. Hiemenz Scholarship has been a registered nurse for over 15 years and is currently a DNP student at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. She obtained her Post Masters Family Nurse Practitioner Certifi... read more.

Andrew Corley 2017-2018 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship
Andrew Corley, awarded the Isabel McIsaac Memorial Scholarship for the second year in a row, is studying to receive a joint degree of Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Public Health (MSN/MPH) from Johns Hopkins University’s Schools of Nursin... read more.

Carrie Deer 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. scholarship, Carrie Deer serves as an adult psychiatric nurse practitioner for the Anderson Cherokee Community Enrichment Services (ACCESS) community mental health clinic(s) near Tyler, Texas. Utilizing... read more.

Jennifer Eccles 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
The M. Louise Fitzpatrick Scholarship recipient began her career in nursing with an Honours Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, in 1994. She then went on to complete a Master of Education at Lakehead Unive... read more.

Samantha Fils-Aime 2017-2018 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship
My name is Samantha Fils-Aime and I am the recipient of the Freedmen’s Hospital Nurses Alumni Clubs, Inc., "Estelle Massey Osborne Memorial" Scholarship. Ever since I was a teenager pursing my Practical Nursing License at just the age of 17, I knew m... read more.

Melanie Freas 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Melanie Freas, winner of the Phillip D. Raso Scholarship, holds a master of science degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a board certified acute care nurse practitioner. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Drexel Uni... read more.

Erika Gathron 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Recipient of the Mary Elizabeth Carnegie Scholarship earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and her Master of Arts in Sociology from The University of New Orleans in 2013. She has been a nurse for 15... read more.

Cassandra Gozik 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Cassandra is the recipient of the Laura D. Smith NSNA Scholarship. She started her nursing journey as a nursing assistant in an older adult memory care unit. She went on to work as an EMT on a college-run ambulance and was exposed to psychiatric emer... read more.

Tamryn Gray 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Tamryn F. Gray, recipient of the Isabel Hampton Robb Memorial Scholarship, is a second year Ph.D. Candidate and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University. She earned her BSN and MSN degrees from the Univ... read more.

Ashley Helmbrecht 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Ashley Helmbrecht is the recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds Miriam M. Powell Scholarship which is dedicated to clinical nursing leadership and scholarship. Ashley completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Scienc... read more.

Benjamin Hickox 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship
Recipient of the Henry B. Spencer scholarship, Ben Hickox completed his baccalaureate degree in Psychology at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa and his baccalaureate degree in Nursing at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He completed... read more.

Kristan Langdon 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Colleen McGauley

(2018-2019 Winner)

Colleen McGauley is the recipient of a “Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship” for the 2018-2019 academic year. She received her bachelors in nursing and minor in Hispanic Studies from Boston College in 20... read more.

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