Scholar News


Eric Hodges, PhD, FNP-BC


Eric Hodges, a 2003-2004 NEF Doctoral Scholarship recipient of the Isabel H. Robb Memorial Scholarship has been an Associate Professor and Director of the Biobehavioral Laboratory in the School of Nursing at The University of North Carolina at Chapel... read more.
Scholarship Winners’ Updates

Abigail Wilpers, MSN, WHNP-BC

2018-2019 NEF Scholar


Abigail Wilpers, MSN, WHNP-BC, 2018-2019 NEF Scholar, has been appointed to the Maternal-Fetal Health Postdoctoral Research Associateship at the Yale School of Medicine. This mentored training position is supported by the Department of Obstetrics, Gy... read more.
NEF Scholar Advancements

Doctoral Nursing Student Is The First Recipient Of The NEF Board Member, Cynthia Davis Sculco, Scholarship - Louise Fleming, MSN, RN


I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere thanks for making it possible for me to be a recipient of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship for the 2015-2016 school year at the University of North Carolima – Chapel Hill. This generous aw... read more.
Scholarship Winners’ Updates

Nancy Duffy DNP, RN, CEN, CNE


Dr. Nancy Duffy, the 2009 recipient of a Nurses’ Educational Funds Scholarship for leadership, is Professor and Director of the BSN Program at Campbell University. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Bradley University in Illinois, a M... read more.
Scholarship Winners’ Updates

Susan Hayes Lane PhD, MSN, RN


Dr. Susan Hayes Lane recently sent NEF her updated C. V. A summary of her activities and achievements since winning one of the 2010-2011 Nurses’ Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship for doctoral study, follows: Since earning a PhD from University of N... read more.
Scholarship Winners’ Updates

Nancy Wise


Nancy Wise, a doctoral student at Villanova University in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, is the first graduate nursing student to be awarded the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. Nancy's primary area of interest is the number of pregnant adolescents... read more.
Scholarship Winners’ Updates

Donna Westmoreland


The Nurses Educational Funds’ scholarship has been such a blessing. I want to first thank NEF again for your generosity. The end of 2013 finds me roughly half way through my clinical hours working toward my FNP certification with Frontier Nursing Uni... read more.
Scholarship Winners’ Updates

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Yvette Conyers

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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NEF’s named scholarships, created with a minimum donation of $50,000, honor and memorialize nurse leaders, from Isabel Hampton Robb to Thelma Schorr to Susan Bowar-Ferres. 100% of donations help to keep NEF scholarships funded in perpetuity; organization expenses are covered by prudent management of NEF’s investments.