Scholars

Tiffany Covarrubias-Lyttle 2024-2025 Winner | Master’s Degree: Tiffany Covarrubias-Lyttle, is the recipient of a Nurses Educational Funds Scholarship. She embarked on her nursing journey as a second-career nurse after previously working as a social worker. Her unique perspective from the social work field allowe... read more.

George Cox 2008-2009 Winner | Doctoral Degree: George Cox attended Rush University. read more.

Joelle Craft 2025-2026 Winner | Master’s Degree: Joelle Craft, MA, BSN, RN, CCRN, NPD-BC, is grateful recipient of the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, New York Alumnae Association/Edith G. Ryan and Joan Herman Bilder Scholarship. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Science in Nursing... read more.

Melissa A. Craft 2002-2003 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Melissa A. Craft was awarded the Judith G. Whitaker/ Liesel M. Hiemenz Scholarship. School attended: Texas Womans’ University Degree: PhD read more.

Ann Crane 1993-1994 Winner | Doctoral Degree

Paulette Cranwell 1984-1985 Winner | Master’s Degree: Paulette Cranwell was awarded the W.B. Saunders Company Scholarship. read more.

Pamela Crary 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Pamela Crary, NEF scholarship winner, received her MSN at the University of Wisconsin where she focused on Nursing Education. Now, while continuing her graduate work at this university she is on the faculty at Edgewater College teaching undergraduate... read more.

Sandra Crawford 1976-1977 Winner | Master’s Degree: Sandra Crawford was awarded the Isabel McIsaac Scholarship. read more.

Audrey Crenshaw 1969-1970 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Audrey Crenshaw was awarded the Mead Johnson Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Roberta Cricco-Lizza 1996-1997 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Roberta Cricco-Lizza attended New York University, Nursing Research & Theory Development. read more.

Laura M. Criddle 2005-2006 Winner | Doctoral Degree: After graduating from nursing school in a quiet suburban community, Laura Marie Criddle found herself (quite by accident!) employed in a huge medical center in Harlem. Although it was a bit of a culture shock, Laura quickly developed a fascination fo... read more.

Pamela P. Criscitiello 2022-2023 Winner | Master’s Degree: Pamela P. Criscitiello felt extraordinarily honored to have received the Nurses Educational Funds Scholarship. She received her undergraduate BSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and has two remaining semesters to complete... read more.

Heather Crowe 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: Heather Crowe got her BSN from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 2008 and went on to work as a Cardiovascular ICU nurse for two years. She will use her NEF scholarship monies to pursue her Master’s degree with a concentration in Nurse Anesthes... read more.

Deborah Croy 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the Eleanor Lambertsen Scholarship, Deborah Croy, works with the underserved in rural Appalachia where she hopes her research studies in the doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) program will result in the ability to apply advanced evidence b... read more.

Marica Crutis 1967-1968 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Marica Crutis was awarded the AJN/Thelma Schorr Scholarship. read more.

Kathy Culpepper 1976-1977 Winner | Master’s Degree: Kathy Culpepper was awarded the C.V. Mosby/ American Journal of Nursing Scholarship. read more.

Lilian E. Cumbee 1933-1934 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Lilian E. Cumbee was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

Elizabeth Curtis 1932-1933 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Elizabeth Curtis was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

George Dagis 1997-1998 Winner | Master’s Degree: George Dagis attended Brampton University. read more.

Dawn Dailey 2004-2005 Winner | Master’s Degree

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FEATURED SCHOLAR

Jasline Moreno

(2024-2025 Winner)

Jasline Moreno, MSN, RN, CHSE-Advanced, CNE, is the esteemed recipient of the Barbara Tate Scholarship for the second time. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2003 and her Master of Science in N... read more.

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NEF’s named scholarships, created with a minimum donation of $50,000, honor and memorialize nurse leaders, from Isabel Hampton Robb to Thelma Schorr to Susan Bowar-Ferres. 100% of donations help to keep NEF scholarships funded in perpetuity; organization expenses are covered by prudent management of NEF’s investments.

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