Scholars

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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.

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.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Frieda Bequeaith

(2024-2025 Winner)

Frieda Bequeaith, RN, is honored to be awarded the Isabel McIsaac Scholarship. Frieda earned their Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Evergreen State College. Upon graduating, they began their career in healthc... read more.

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