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Student Awards, Scholarships and Honors

Mohannad Abu Ruz (Ph.D. 2006): $3,000 Dissertation Enhancement Award (2005).

Said Abu-Salem (Ph.D. 2006):

$4,025 grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for dissertation research.

$1,000 Commonwealth Research Award for a presentation at the American Public Health Association annual meeting

$800 Doris Hatchall Scholarship for doctoral study

Fawwaz Al Aloul (Ph.D. 2006): $10,000 grant from the Oncology Nursing Society, for dissertation research (2005).

Esam Al-Khasib (Ph.D. 2006): $1,000 scholarship from the Margaret T. Stoeckinger Foundation, Inc. (2003).

Deby Armstrong (Ph.D. 2001):

Sigma Theta Tau International Research Dissemination in Nursing Award (2002)

$500 from American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing for best paper (2001)

$2,000 Woodrow Wilson/Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grant in Women's Health (2001)
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$2,000 Kentucky Board of Nursing Incentive Scholarship (academic year 2000-2001)

$4,500 University of Kentucky Graduate School Fellowship (Fall 2000)

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Kristin Ashford (Ph.D. 2007): $20,000 grant from the General Clinical Research Center for dissertation research (2006-07).

Sukjai Charoensuk (Ph.D. 2005): $3,000 Dissertation Enhancement Award to support data collection in Thailand (2004).

Judi Daniels (Ph.D. 2004):

$1,000 Commonwealth Research Award to present a poster at the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners conference (2004).

$382 from Sigma Theta Tau, Delta Psi Chapter, for dissertation research (2003).

Peggy El-Mallakh (Ph.D. 2005): $1,000 from the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses Research Foundation, for dissertation research.
Debra Hall (Ph.D. 2004):

Named to National Institutes of Health Director's Council of Public Representatives (2002)

$2,000 Kentucky Board of Nursing Incentive Scholarship (academic year 2000-2001)

Lou Ann Hartley (Ph.D. 2003):

$500 scholarship from the Delta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society

Nurse reviewer for Health Care Management Review

Student associate in the Center for Health Services Management and Research

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Jennifer Hatcher (Ph.D. 2006):

$250 grant from Delta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau for dissertation research (2005).

Three-year pre- and post-doctoral fellowship from National Cancer Institute Grant # 1 R01 CA108696-02 (Nancy Schoenberg, PI) (2005).

Karen Heaton, M.S.N. (Ph.D. 2007): National Research Service Award predoctoral fellowship (2004-2007).

Patti Howard (Ph.D. 2004):

"You Make a Difference" award from the Emergency Nurses Association Injury Prevention Institute (2002)

$2,000 Kentucky Board of Nursing Incentive Scholarship (academic year 2001-2002)

$500 from the Kentucky Emergency Nurses Association

$325 scholarship from the Delta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau

Regina Lowry (Ph.D. 2007): $2,000 Kentucky Board of Nursing Incentive Scholarship (academic year 2001-2002)

Zim Okoli (Ph.D. 2005):

$2,000 UK Medical Center Scholarship (academic year 2003-2004)

$50,000 postdoctoral fellowship from NEXUS, University of British Columbia (2006).

Evelyn Parrish (Ph.D. 2008): $200 award from Delta Psi for dissertation research.

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Lee Ridner (Ph.D. 2004): $2,000 Kentucky Board of Nursing Incentive Scholarship (academic year 2001-2002)

Patty Ryan (Ph.D. 2003):

$2,000 from the UK Donovan Scholars Program (2002-2003)

$300 from Kentucky Gerontological Society for Lois Layne Student of the Year award (April 2001)

$30,000 Doctoral Scholarship in Cancer Nursing from the American Cancer Society (2000-2002)

$1,000 Donovan Scholarship (1999-2000 and 2000-2001 academic years)

Oncology Nursing Foundation Ann Olson Doctoral Scholarship (1999-2000)

Kentucky Board of Nursing Incentive Scholarship (1999-2000)

NCLEX item writer on end-of-life care

Editorial Review Board for Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

Oncology Nursing Society Nurse in Washington Intern, National Federation for Specialty Nursing Organizations (March 2001)

Usama Saleh (Ph.D. 2002):

$9,069 from the Oncology Nursing Foundation for dissertation research

$2,000 Kentucky Board of Nursing Incentive Scholarship (academic year 2000-2001)

$600 from the Delta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau

$3,733 Academic Excellence Award from the University of Kentucky Graduate School for tuition

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Celeste Shawler (Ph.D. 2003):

Lois E. Layne Award for Student Achievement (2000)

$300 from the Kentucky Association for Gerontology

$500 scholarship from the Delta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau (2000)

Debra Shupienis: $1,000 grant from the West Virginia School of Nursing Alpha Rho Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau for dissertation research.

Scott Treadway (PhD 2005): $275 scholarship from the Delta Psi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau

Amy Yoder (Ph.D. 2003):

Virginia Cleland/ANF Scholar, American Nurses Foundation (2002)

$2,500 scholarship from the Alumni Association of the University of Virginia School of Nursing (2002)

$740 Commonwealth Research Award for travel to present a poster