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Cassandra Godzik 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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.

Marit Knutson 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: 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.

Rose Lindsay 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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.

Kelly McAllister 2018-2019 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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.

Megan Moyer 2018-2019 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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 Scholarship: 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.

Jennifer Alderman 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Jennifer T. Alderman, MSN, RNC-OB, CNL, is the 2017 recipient of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. Jennifer, a native of North Carolina, received a BSN from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1997 and worked as a labor and delivery... read more.

Linda Armstrong 2017-2018 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Linda Armstrong is a recipient of the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholarship. Linda is pursuing a master’s degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner, subspecializing i... read more.

Mary Ashong 2017-2018 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Mary is the recipient of the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Evelyn J. Barclay Fund Scholarship. After spending many years raising a family, Mary was drawn to the nursing field by some touching experiences she encountered as a patient. She was inspire... read more.

Naresa Baksh 2017-2018 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Naresa Baksh is the recipient of the Laura D. Smith National Student Nurses' Association Scholarship. Naresa received her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Hunter College in New York City. She is currently pursuing her Masters... read more.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Melissa Ferdinandi

(2009-2010 Winner)

Melissa Taylor Ferdinandi followed a unique path towards nursing. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont before attending law school at Seattle University. Upon obtaining her law de... read more.

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