Dr. Ursula Springer
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.
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Taleah Frazier
(2026-2027 Winner)
Taleah A. Frazier, BSN, RN, is the 2026-2027 recipient of the M. Elizabeth Carnegie African American Scholarship, an honor awarded to Black nurses enrolled in doctoral programs in memory of Dr. M. Elizabeth Car... read more.
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