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Tenzin Nangkyi 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Tenzin Nangkyi who won the Isabel Mc Isaac Scholarship, is a clinical liaison nurse for a non-profit hospice in Washington, D.C. while she is pursuing her masters of nursing and masters in business administration, MSN/MBA, at Johns Hopkins University... read more.

Caitlin O'Connell 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Caitlin O'Connell is this year’s winner of the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. /J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholarship. A practicing pediatric nurse for eleven years at New York Presbyterian Hospital in... read more.

Cheryl Petersen 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Cheryl Petersen was awarded her second NEF Scholarship as she completes her doctoral studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Cheryl is currently working as an oncology research nurse at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. During her twenty years... read more.

Jennifer Poliwka 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Jennifer Poliwka, winner of the Edith Prichard Scholarship, is pursuing a masters of science in public health nursing at Johns Hopkins University. She has worked in a number of settings that spurred her interest in public health including: Uganda whe... read more.

Nancy Roecklein 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Nancy Roecklin, winner of the Judith Whittaker Scholarship, is also a two-time winner. Nancy’s initial career path was in journalism and she earned a Journalism BA from NYU In 1987. She changed career paths in 1994 when she acquired an associate of a... read more.

Kelli Roush 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Kelli Roush, who is the winner of the Lucy C. Perry Scholarship, has been a nurse for six years and for the past five years has worked at Indiana University Health North Hospital. She currently serves as a charge nurse in the adult medical-surgical d... read more.

Mary Ann Siciliano McLaughlin 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Awarded the Eleanor Lambertsen Scholarship, has been a nurse for over twenty-four years. She completed her undergraduate (BSN) and graduate (MSN) studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Currently she is pursuing her doctorate at... read more.

Cynthia Thompson 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Cynthia Thompson was awarded the Lillian Heimenz Scholarship as she pursues her PhD in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Worcester. Cynthia started on a different career path obtaining a BA in English from Holy Cross College, then went on to... read more.

Carly Turner 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Carly Turner who won an NEF Scholarship, began college focused on a career in graphic design but in her junior year changed her major and went on to earn a BSN degree. Her first job was in the neurological ICU at Johns Hopkins and later as “travel” n... read more.

Ashley Weber 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Ashley Weber, the first winner of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship, knew early in her nursing career that she wanted to be a neonatal nurse researcher. In this specialty she is pursuing a doctorate at Ohio State University while maintaining a par... read more.

Nancy Wise 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Nancy Wise, a doctoral student at Villanova University in Radnor Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the first student to be awarded the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. Nancy’s primary area of interest is the number of pregnant ado... read more.

Jenelle Zambrano 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Jenelle Zambrano, awarded an NEF Scholarship, is a neonatal clinical nurse specialist serving the underserved population of Los Angeles County at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She attended California State University for her BSN and... read more.

Kenneth Zeyak 2014-2015 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: Kenneth Zeyak, NEF Scholarship winner, began his career in healthcare as a volunteer emergency medical technician with his local community ambulance service. In 1992 he graduated from St. Joseph Hospital Paramedic Institute in Lancaster, Pa. His init... read more.

Ashley Beavers 2013-2014 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: After earning a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth in Richmond, Virginia, and working in a psychiatric hospital, Ashley Beavers, winner of an NEF Scholarship enrolled at Bon Secours Memorial School of Nursing, also in Richmond... read more.

Carolyn Boyle 2013-2014 Winner | Master’s Degree Scholarship: The Isabel Mc Isaac Scholarship went to Carolyn Boyle who is pursuing her MSN degree in nurse anesthesia at Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College in St. Louis. From there she plans to continue on to earn a DNP. One of her passions is re... read more.

Beth Chiatti 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Beth Chiatti, a nurse educator and winner of an NEF Scholarship, is pursuing her doctoral degree at Widener University in Chester, Pa. (where she also got her Masters degree). Her BA in Anthropology gives her a particular insightful slant as a nurse... read more.

Deborah Croy 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Winner of the Eleanor Lambertsen Scholarship, Deborah Croy, works with the underserved in rural Appalachia where she hopes her research studies in the doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) program will result in the ability to apply advanced evidence b... read more.

Kathleen Dermady 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Lillian Heimenz Scholarship winner Kathleen Dermady provides midwifery services to women in an academic prenatal center and has a special interest in caring for women challenged with diabetes in pregnancy. She began her nursing studies at the Univers... read more.

Heidi Gilroy 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: Heidi Gilroy, winner of the Judith Whittaker Scholarship is studying for her PhD in nursing science at Texas Woman’s University in Houston, Texas. She earned her masters in nursing at Benedictine University before returning to Texas Woman’s for gradu... read more.

Joseph Halvorson 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree Scholarship: The National Student Nursing Association Scholarship winner, Joseph Halvorson, is pursuing his doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) in the adult-geriatric nurse practitioner specialty at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He has two goals: to... read more.

FEATURED SCHOLAR

Carolyn Rios

(2011-2012 Winner)

NEF scholarship winner Carolyn Rios earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Buffalo. During that time she also participated in two summer internships – one at Rochester Medical Center in the MICU/CC... read more.

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