Scholars

2020s Cycles

Christina Murphey 2008-2009 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Christina Murphey attended the University of Texas, Austin. Degree: PhD read more.

Carina Sterling 2008-2009 Winner | Master’s Degree: Carina Sterling attended UCLA. read more.

Christine Strayhorn 2008-2009 Winner | Master’s Degree: Christine Strayhorn attended Duke University. read more.

Lindsay Thomas 2008-2009 Winner | Master’s Degree: Lindsay Thomas attended UCSF. read more.

Penny Watts 2008-2009 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Penny Watts attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham. read more.

Felicia Williams 2008-2009 Winner | Master’s Degree

Patricia Wright 2008-2009 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Patricia Wright attended Loyola University. read more.

Faisal H. Aboul-Enein 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Mr. Aboul-Enein is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Texas Woman’s University and Family Nurse Practitioner/ Nursing Instructor at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Mr. Aboul-Enein began his nursing career working in Saudi Arabia providing primary care. He... read more.

Jaleh Akhavan 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jaleh Akhavan, Ph.D. candidate, MHA, BSN, R.N., CNOR is currently a full-time student at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has completed her coursework, passed her oral qualifying exam, and awaits the IRB approval process to get her d... read more.

Kevin R. Driscoll 2007-2008 Winner | Master’s Degree: Diversity adds spice to life, and Kevin Driscoll has embraced diversity and a commitment to a multidisciplinary education. Having traveled around the world Kevin credits his willingness to approach any subject with an open mind for his unique global... read more.

Sheron Farinha-Spence 2007-2008 Winner | Master’s Degree: I grew first up in a family of five children. My parents migrated from Guyana, South America when I was a teenager. I completed my secondary schooling here in the United States at the Tilden High School in Brooklyn, NY. When I graduated I worked at v... read more.

Stephanie Gilbertson-White 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Research The support I received in 2006-2007 from Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. was put toward my attendance at the Summer Genetics Institute at the National Institutes of Health. This in-residence program is geared toward nurse scholars interested... read more.

Tatyana Grimaylo 2007-2008 Winner | Master’s Degree: I, Tatyana Grimaylo, was born on the 20th of February, 1978 in Ukraine, former USSR. I immigrated to the US together with my parents in 1997 when I was 18 years old. We came directly to Boston area, where I have lived for the last eleven years. I sta... read more.

Daurice Grossniklaus 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: After 15 fulfilling years as a psychiatric/mental health nurse, I left bedside nursing to pursue a masters of education degree in instructional technology. Upon graduation, I collaborated with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nutritional ep... read more.

Jeanne B. Jenkins 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jeanne B. Jenkins, RN, MSN, MBA has been a Registered Nurse for 13 years. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1994. During her undergraduate program, she worked as a Nursing Assi... read more.

Christina M. Kirk 2007-2008 Winner | Master’s Degree: Christina Kirk is a research specialist in the Nursing Research and Education Department at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA. She has been an Oncology nurse for the past 6 years. Christina received her Associate's Degree from Cy... read more.

Jennifer Knaebel 2007-2008 Winner | Master’s Degree: After completing my bachelor's degree in nursing at Indiana University, I worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit nurse for several years, most of that time as a travel RN. After four years of bedside practice, I choose to pursue a different direct... read more.

Greta Krapohl 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Greta was born and raised on Long Island, NY. She attended the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware for her BSN and awarded a MSN as a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. She is currently in her s... read more.

Gay Landstrom 2007-2008 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Gay Landstrom began her nursing career with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing program with Rush University in Chicago, Illinois. After working 3 years as a staff and charge nurse in Pediatric Oncology and motivated by a love of empowerment models for nu... read more.

Kerrie Lansing 2007-2008 Winner | Master’s Degree: Kerrie Lansing has been employed by the Department of Transplantation at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida as a Clinical Research Coordinator since May 2006. Prior to this, she was also involved in clinical research for the Division of Transpl... read more.

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Yvette Conyers

(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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