Scholars

Carla Cooper Weeks 1997-1998 Winner | Master’s Degree: Carla Cooper Weeks was awarded the Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarship. read more.

Hulda Wegener 1960-1961 Winner | Master’s Degree: Hulda Wegener was awarded the Shirley Titus Scholarship. read more.

Theresa C. Weir 1994-1995 Winner | Master’s Degree: Theresa C. Weir attended the University of Pennsylvania. Degree: FNP read more.

Cathryne A. Welch 1967-1968 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Cathryne A. Welch was awarded the AJN/Thelma Schorr Scholarship. read more.

Lauri Welch 2009-2010 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lauri Welch is a nurse practitioner concerned with the cost of medications and the ability of patients to pay for them, particularly in a period of economic downturn. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she al... read more.

Nada Riley Welden 1995-1996 Winner | Master’s Degree: Nada Riley Welden attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Degree: Adult Nurse Practitioner read more.

Marcia I. Wells 1989-1990 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Marcia I. Wells was awarded the M. Elizabeth Carnegie / NEF Scholarship. School attended: Harvard Graduate School of Education Degree: Community Heath/ Planning and Social Policy read more.

Marion H. Wells 1926-1927 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Marion H. Wells was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

John C. Wendell 2002-2003 Winner | Master’s Degree: John C. Wendell was awarded the Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarship. School attended: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill read more.

Marcia Wertz 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: A native to northern California, Marcia Wertz is the married mother of three children. Marcia received her BSN degree in 1982 from the University of San Francisco. Specializing in the care of neonates, Marcia spent her first 12 years in nursing in th... read more.

Marjorie G. Wesley 1996-1997 Winner | Master’s Degree: Marjorie G. Wesley attended College of Mount St. Vincent. Degree: Psychiatric / Mental Health Nurisng read more.

Edith A. West 2006-2007 Winner | Doctoral Degree: 'Edie' West has over twenty years of Medical-Surgical Nursing experience and has been a Nurse Educator for the past nine years. She is currently working on a Research PhD in Nursing at the University of Wales Bangor in the United Kingdom. She spent a... read more.

Rebecca West 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Isabel Hampton Robb award winner, Rebecca West, did her undergraduate and graduate (Masters) work at the University of Illinois. Rebecca feels that clinical research in mindfulness is a new and growing field and she wants to grow with it. She became... read more.

Donna Westmoreland 2013-2014 Winner | Master’s Degree: A student at Frontier Nursing University, in Hyden, Kentucky, Donna Westmoreland, was awarded the Lucy Perry Scholarship. Ms. Westmoreland’s goal is to become a family nurse practitioner. She began her nursing career in critical care but moved on to... read more.

Alice A. Weston 1927-1928 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Alice A. Weston was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

Laura Wheeler 2006-2007 Winner | Master’s Degree: Hello, my name is Laura Wheeler and I am proud to be a school nurse with the Cedar Rapids Community School District. I have been a nurse since 1982 when I graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing with a BSN degree. I have had the oppor... read more.

Judith G. Whitaker 1951-1952 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Judith G. Whitaker was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

Marguerite B. White 1968-1969 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Marguerite B. White was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

Sandra L. White Ducar 1974-1975 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Sandra L. White Ducar was awarded the AJN/Thelma Schorr Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Erin Whitehouse 2015-2016 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship, is currently enrolled in the PhD program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her masters of public health from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill af... read more.

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FEATURED SCHOLAR

Jennifer Spezza

(2025-2026 Winner)

Jennifer Spezza, RN, BSN, CWOCN, is a dedicated Wound, Ostomy, and Continence (WOC) nurse with over 15 years of specialized experience providing care across hospital, clinic, and home health settings. Currently... read more.

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