Scholars

Suja P. Davis 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Suja P. Davis is the recipient of the 2019 Margaret Gould Tyson Scholarship. She is a 3rd year PhD student at the College of Nursing, East Carolina University, NC, as well as an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, UN -CH, N.C. Suja received... read more.

Keela H. Day 1984-1985 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Keela H. Day was awarded the Simms Scholarship. read more.

Paola De Leon 2023-2024 Winner | Master’s Degree: Paola De Leon, RN, BSN is the honored recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds Inc. Scholarship. Paola earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2019 from the College of New Rochelle. She is currently studying for her master’s as a Nurse Practiti... read more.

Cristina de Rosa 2023-2024 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Cristina de Rosa, MSN, RN, is the recipient of the Mathy Mezey Scholarship for geriatric nursing. Ms. de Rosa is a PhD candidate at the School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, where she is a Presidential Scholar an... read more.

Rebecca Deal Poston 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: After completing a BA in Religious studies Rebecca Deal Poston made a career change, getting her second Baccalaureate degree in Nursing from the University of Virginia. She continues to pursue her interest in the field of Pediatric Nursing and feels... read more.

McMical Debrow 1985-1986 Winner | Unspecified Degree: McMical Debrow was awarded the DeLorey / Quality Care / Michael Kelly Memorial Scholarship. read more.

Carrie Deer 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree: 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.

Florence J. DeGregory 1967-1968 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Florence J. DeGregory was awarded the C.V. Mosby Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Lyndsay DeGroot 2021-2022 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lyndsay DeGroot, PhD(c), BSN, RN is the recipient of the Mathy Mezey Scholarship. She is a fourth year PhD Candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD. Following the death of a close friend and her aunt from septic sh... read more.

Jacqueline M. Deighan 1969-1970 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jacqueline M. Deighan was awarded the Paralyzed Veterans Scholarship. read more.

Dorothy J. DelBueno 1968-1969 Winner | Master’s Degree: Dorothy J. DelBueno was awarded the Paralyzed Veterans Scholarship. read more.

Sergine Delma 2025-2026 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Sergine Delma, DNP-FNP student at Columbia University School of Nursing, is the 2025–2026 recipient of the Columbia University – Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association Inc./J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholarship. Established in honor o... read more.

Marlene E. Delphey 1964-1965 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Marlene E. Delphey was awarded the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Donna Demarest 1985-1986 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Donna Demarest was awarded the American Journal of Nursing / NEF Scholarship. read more.

Jean Ann DeMars 1974-1975 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jean Ann DeMars was awarded the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. read more.

Loretto A. Denmark 1961-1962 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Loretto A. Denmark was awarded the Bruck’s Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Kathleen Dermady 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lillian Heimenz Scholarship winner Kathleen Dermady provides midwifery services to women in an academic prenatal center and has a special interest in caring for women challenged with diabetes in pregnancy. She began her nursing studies at the Univers... read more.

Gordana Dermody 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree: The first nurse to win the Mathey Mezey Scholarship, is pursuing her doctorate at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her commitment to gerontology nursing is demonstrated by her research interests which... read more.

Muriel Derosiers 1971-1972 Winner | Unspecified Degree

Patricia A. Descamp 1977-1978 Winner | Master’s Degree: Patricia A. Descamp was awarded the E.R. Squibb & Sons Scholarship. read more.

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FEATURED SCHOLAR

Julia Yurcich

(2011-2012 Winner)

The Miriam M. Powell scholarship went to Julia Yurcich who received her BS degree from Grand Canyon University in Arizona in 2008. She continued on to the DNP program with an emphasis in geriatrics at Arizona S... read more.

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