March of Dimes
Graduate Nursing Scholarships
 

Graduate Nursing Scholarships

To recognize and promote excellence in nursing care of mothers and babies, the March of Dimes offers four $5,000 scholarships annually to registered nurses enrolled in graduate programs of maternal-child nursing. Applications for 2004 scholarships were due on January 16, 2004. In 2004, the scholarships are partially supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Hill-Rom Air-Shields.


Eligibility Requirements
  • Applicant must be a registered nurse.
  • Applicant must be enrolled in a graduate program in maternal-child nursing at the master’s or doctoral level.
  • Applicant must have at least one academic term to complete after May of the year in which the scholarship is awarded.
  • Applicant must be a member of at least one of the following professional organizations: the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses; the American College of Nurse-Midwives; or the National Association of Neonatal Nurses.
  • Applicant cannot be a previous recipient of the March of Dimes graduate nursing scholarship.
  • Employees of the March of Dimes, members of its Board of Trustees, and their family members are not eligible.

Scholarship recipients are announced every May.

Previous Recipients

2004
Robin B. Knobel, RNC, MSN, NNP, Greenville, NC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christie N. Lawrence, RN, BSN, Country Club Hills, IL, University of Illinois at Chicago
Gina Novick, CNM, MSN, Hamden, CT, Yale University
Bridget Rene Robinson, RN, BSN, Trenton, MO, University of Kansas Medical Center

2003
Margie A. Campbell, RNC, Columbus, IN
Dawn E. Dailey, RN, MSN, CS, Vacaville, CA
Kelli Dyer, BSN, RN, ICCE, Columbus, GA
Debra L. Hamilton, RN, BSN, CCM, CNLCP, Cheyenne, WY

2002
Jo Ann Dotson, RN, MSN, Helena, MT
Judith Hilton, MSN, RNC, Hickory, NC
Barbara McFarlin, CNM, MS, RDMS, Chicago, IL
Linda Shewey, ICCE, RN, PhD, Kent, WA

2001
Carolyn Constantin, MSN, RNC, Atlanta, GA
Cecily Floyd, BSRN, Pocatello, ID
Eileen Ehudin Pagano, CNM, Columbia, MD
Laura Warren, RN, Oakland, CA

2000
Emily Merideth, RN, MPH, Berkeley, CA
Therese McMahan, RNC, MSN, OGNP, Somerville, MA
Verna J. Schad, RN, MS, FNP, SNM, Lantry, SD
Laura B. Strange, RN, MN, Dunwoody, GA

1999
Terry Griffin, RNC, MS, NNP, Long Grove, IL
Wendy Rasso, RN, Pueblo, CO

1998
Ginger L. Breedlove, CNM, MSN, Kansas City, MO
Carol Sue Omel, RN, MPH, Portland, OR 		 
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