Directory of Scholars

2010s Cycles

Dana Connolly 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Dana Connolly is honored to have received the Miriam M. Powell Scholarship. She graduated from the UCLA School of Nursing as an undergraduate in 2013 and worked as an ICU and emergency nurse at UCLA before deciding to return to UCLA’s Family Nurse Pr... read more.

Jodi Feinberg 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jodi Feinberg is the recipient of the Isabel McIsaac Scholarship. She attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing for her undergraduate degree, and is currently a graduate student at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing in the Adult Geron... read more.

Allison Gilmer 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Allison Gilmer is a recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. Allison is pursuing a master’s degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing. She chose a career in nursing because... read more.

Marit Knutson 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Marit Knutson is the 2018-2019 recipient of a Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. She attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate nursing education, received her registered nursing license in 2014, and is currently enrolled... read more.

Kelly McAllister 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Kelly Anne McAllister, BSN, RN, OCN, CBCN, is the 2018 recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds Scholarship. Kelly knew she wanted to be a nurse from a very young age and cannot remember a time when she didn’t plan to care for oncology patients. She... read more.

Colleen McGauley 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: 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 2015. Colleen currently attends Boston Col... read more.

Debra Miller 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Debra Miller has been awarded the Barbara L. Tate Scholarship. While always working in the medical field, it was a dream of hers to become a nurse, however, her family always came first. Ms Miller raised five children before returning to finish her d... read more.

Francine Bono-Neri 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Francine Bono-Neri is the recipient of the 2019 Jane Eleanor Knox Scholarship. Francine earned her BSN in 1992 from Adelphi University, after which she began her nursing career as a PICU staff nurse. Falling in love with pediatrics and the ICU, Franc... read more.

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.

Tommy Flynn 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Tommy Flynn, awarded the 2019 Henry B. Spencer Scholarship for leadership in nursing and health care, is a candidate for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff Scho... read more.

Lauren Ghazal 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lauren Ghazal is the proud recipient of the Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) 50th Anniversary Scholarship. Lauren is currently a student in the Florence S. Downs PhD Program in Nursing Research and Theory Development at t... read more.

Rebecca R. Hill 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Rebecca R. Hill, DNP, MSN, FNP-C is the recipient of the 2019 M. Louise Fitzpatrick Nursing Scholarship Award. Rebecca earned her BSN from the University of Rhode Island in 2006, her MSN and post-master’s certificate in nursing education from Duke Un... read more.

Hillary Hoskins 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Awarded the 2019 Liesel M. Hiemenz Scholarship, Hillary Hoskins is a Certified Nurse Midwife currently practicing as a Registered Nurse in Michigan. She holds a BSN from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and is currently a full time DNP-FNP st... read more.

Corinna Hughes 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Corinna Hughes, BSN, RN, CCRN is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Evelyn J. Barclay Scholarship. This scholarship is given to a doctoral applicant in nursing education or research. Corinna is a Spring 2020 candidate for a degree in Doctor of Nursing Pr... read more.

Noelene Jeffers 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Noelene K. Jeffers, CNM, MSN, is the recipient of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. She is currently a third year PhD Candidate and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Noelene r... read more.

Jared Kutzin 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jared M. Kutzin, DNP, MS, MPH, RN, CPPS, CPHQ, NEA-BC, FSSH is the recipient of the 2019 Judith G. Whitaker Scholarship. Jared currently works at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City as the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation. He graduated... read more.

Jenna Magallanes 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jenna Magallanes BSN, RN is the recipient of the Barbara L. Tate Scholarship. Jenna is a DNP student at the University of Michigan and recently completed her studies for Nurse Midwifery. As a non-traditional student, Jenna began her career in 2012 as... read more.

Katherine Mitchell Wentzell 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Katie Wentzell is the recipient of the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship, which is awarded to the doctoral student with the highest evaluation score. Katie is currently a second year doctoral student at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursi... read more.

Jasmine Nakayama 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jasmine Nakayama, BSN, RN, CEN, was awarded the Barbara Jonas Scholarship for academic excellence and active community service. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Augusta University and is currently a Nursing PhD candidate at Emory Un... read more.

Kelsey Naruse 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Kelsey Naruse, MS, RN is the 2019 recipient of the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc./J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholarship. She is currently attending Columbia University in pursuit of a Doctorate in Nur... read more.

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