Dr. Ursula Springer, PhD, FAAN and NEF Board Member Emeritus, passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Dr. Springer grew up in Berlin, Germany. In college she majored in the “new philology”, a school within philology and ethnohistory that seeks to describe the history of an era using the written sources of a culture to understand their perspective of their own history.
(2017-2018 Winner)
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 M... read more.
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