Scholars

2010s Cycles

Joshua O’Floinn 2017-2018 Winner | Master’s Degree: Recipient of a Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship, Joshua O’Floinn is pursuing a Master of Science degree in Community and Public Health Nursing at Worcester State University in Massachusetts. Joshua received his ADN in 2000 from Butler Commu... read more.

Calli Cook 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Calli Cook awarded the Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship is an Advanced Practice Registered Nursing practicing in Georgia. She holds a BSN from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, a MSN from Emory University, and is currently a DNP student at T... read more.

Jennifer Dillon 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jennifer Dillon MPA, RN-BC is the recipient of the 2018 Mathy Mezey Scholarship. Following a six-year enlistment in the U.S. Air Force, Jennifer made the decision to pursue nursing as she has a passion for both science and healthcare. She graduated c... read more.

Athena Ford 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Athena D. Ford, PhD(c), BSN, RN is the recipient of the AJN/Thelma Schorr Scholarship – given to a graduate nurse who exemplifies characteristics of a nursing leader who plans to exercise the "voice" of nursing through speaking or writing. Ford is a... read more.

Annie George 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Dr. Annie George is the Senior Director of Nursing Excellence and Research at the Office of Patient Centered Care NYC Health+ Hospitals, the largest muncipal health system in the country. In her current role at the Office of Patient Centered Care/Off... read more.

Cassandra Godzik 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Cassandra is the recipient of the Laura D. Smith NSNA Scholarship. She started her nursing journey as a nursing assistant in an older adult memory care unit. She went on to work as an EMT on a college-run ambulance and was exposed to psychiatric emer... read more.

Kattiria Gonzalez 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Kattiria M Rosario Gonzalez is the recipient of the 2018 Judith G. Whitaker Scholarship. She is currently a PhD student at SUNY Binghamton University, Decker School of Nursing, in Binghamton, NY. Kattiria received her AAS in Nursing from St. Joseph’s... read more.

Cara Harris 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Cara Harris is the recipient of the Freedmen’s Hospital Nurses’ Alumni Clubs, Inc. Estelle Massey Osborne Scholarship through the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. (NEF). Ms Harris is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with 24 years of service at The Ohio Stat... read more.

Rose Lindsay 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Rose Lindsay, PMHNP-C is the 2018-2019 recipient of the Evelyn Barclay Scholarship. Rose, a native of New York, began nursing as an Associate Degree graduate in 1999 from Sullivan County Community College (SCCC). While working as a medical-surgical n... read more.

Tanya Lott 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Tanya Lott, winner of the Philip D. Raso Scholarship, holds a master of science in nursing degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (2003) and a bachelor of science in nursing degree from Charleston Southern University (1999). She is curr... read more.

Megan Moyer 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: The recipient of the 2018 M. Louise Fitzpatrick Nursing Scholarship Award, Megan Moyer earned her ASN in 1999 and BSN in 2001 from Gwynedd-Mercy College and her MSN from Thomas Jefferson University in 2007 specializing as an adult acute care nurse pr... read more.

Manka Nkimbeng 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Manka Nkimbeng, is the recipient of the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship awarded to the doctoral student with the highest evaluation score. Manka is currently a third-year doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She earned her Bachelors... read more.

Lauren Pfeifer 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lauren E. Pfeifer, MSN, RN is the 2018 recipient of the Lucy C. Perry Scholarship. Lauren is a native of Boston, Massachusetts and was inspired to become a nurse after watching how committed her grandmother, aunt and mother were to providing compassi... read more.

Michael Schultz 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Michael Schultz, BSN, RN, is the recipient of the Henry B. Spencer Scholarship. He received his BA in philosophy at the University of California at San Diego prior to earning his BSN at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). After wor... read more.

Brianna Singleton 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Brianna Singleton is the 2018 recipient of the M. Elizabeth Carnegie African American Scholarship. She is currently enrolled at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as a second-year student in the nursing PhD doctoral program. Her resea... read more.

Abigail Wilpers 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Abigail Wilpers, MSN, WHNP-BC is the 2018 recipient of the Edith M. Pritchard Scholarship. Abigail is a doctoral candidate at Yale University with 10 years of experience working with families whose pregnancies have become complicated by a fetal anoma... read more.

Lisa Woodley 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lisa K. Woodley, MSN, RN, CNE, CHPN is the 2018 recipient of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. Lisa is a fourth year PhD student at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro, N.C., as well as an Assistant Professor at UNC at Chapel Hil... read more.

Camille Almada 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Camille Almada is the recipient of the Liesel M. Hiemenz Scholarship which is awarded to students interested in public health. She currently attends Pace University’s Family Nurse Practitioner Master’s Program. Her first undergraduate degree was a BA... read more.

Elizabeth Balleweg 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Elizabeth Balleweg, recipient of the Geraldine Labecki Scholarship, is pursuing a Master’s Degree at Frontier Nursing University to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Montana State University in... read more.

Becky Bowler 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree: Becky Bowler is the recipient of the Norman and Alicia Volk/NEF Scholarship. She is currently attending Boston College in pursuit of a Master’s Degree in the Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program. Becky received her Bachelors degree in nursing... read more.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Martha Badger

(2014-2015 Winner)

NEF Scholarship winner, is a bilingual (English/French) dual citizen (United States/Canada) who discovered her passion for nursing while volunteering at a health clinic in Cameroon, West Africa, twenty-five yea... read more.

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