School of Nursing Scholarships
Please contact Pamela Cartledge with any questions about School of Nursing Scholarships.
Adomat Family Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate students
- Demonstrated financial need
- Priority to seniors
Amanda and Jacob Brax Memorial Fund
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Priority to students with financial need
Anabel Sharp Nursing Scholarship
- Graduate students
- Demonstrated commitment to teach upon graduation
Anne R. Bavier Scholarship
- Incoming or continuing graduate students
- Students enrolled full or part time in a doctoral program of the school
- Demonstrate financial need
Asher G. Zlotnick Memorial Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate students
- Demonstrated financial need
Bloor Family Scholarship
- Graduate, CEIN/BS or undergraduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
Carol A. Otis Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate students
- Demonstrated financial need
- Students enrolled full time
Christine Yoran Brenner Scholarship Fund
- Students who have shown service and commitment to their community/school and best exemplify Brenner’s values
- Must be a sophomore nursing student
CT Health Horizons Scholarship Fund
- CEIN/BS students
- High financial need determined by UConn Financial Aid
- Live in an Alliance town: list_of_alliance_districts.pdf
- Eligible for Pell grant
Dianne M. Schmeizl Memorial Nursing Scholarship
- Sophomores
- Demonstrated financial need
Donaldson Endowed Scholarship
- Graduate or undergraduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
- Full time enrollment
Donald T. and Ann M. Valerio Scholarship Fund
- Undergraduate or Graduate student
- Full time enrollment
- Demonstrated financial need
- Preference for students interested in geriatric nursing
- Academic achievement
Dorothy S. Schuman Scholarship
- Undergraduate, CEIN/BS or Graduate students
- CT resident
- Preference for residents of Clinton, Guilford, or Madison
Dr. Cheryl Beck and Capt. Charles Beck Nursing Scholarship
- Graduate or undergraduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
- Good academic standing
Dr. Henrietta Bernal Endowment
- Undergraduate or Graduate students
- Students enrolled full-time
Dumont/Bourassa Family Nurse Educator and Nurse Leader Fund
To be eligible for the Fellowship(s), candidates must meet the following criteria:
i. Be an incoming or continuing graduate student enrolled in the School of Nursing;
ii. ii. Demonstrate financial need; and
iii. iii. Be pursuing a degree in either the Master of Science Nurse Educator program or Master of Science Nurse Leader programs.
Eastern Connecticut Nightingale Scholarship
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Students enrolled full time
- Priority to residents of New London County
Eleanor I. Skinner Memorial Fellowship
- Graduate student
- Demonstrated academic achievement
- Interest in direct patient care in geriatric or palliative care
- Priority consideration given to Connecticut residents
Elizabeth Otto Scholarship
- Undergraduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
- Good academic standing
Emma Smith Kenneday Scholarship
- Graduates of an urban Connecticut high school
- Incoming first year undergraduate
- Demonstrated financial need
- Can be renewed
Ferdinand and Nellie D’Esopo Scholarship
- Undergraduate students
- Preference to residents of Hartford, CT
Frank P. Chinigo Scholarship Fund
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Students enrolled full time
- Residents of Southeastern Connecticut
- Demonstrated financial need
- Priority to students coming from an associate degree program
Gale Rydel Scholarship
- Graduate students in the Nurse Educator track
Harold and Lillian Lester Scholarship
- Incoming or continuing undergraduate students
- Academic achievement or demonstrated financial need
- Priority to students who demonstrate experience with community nursing
Heist Family Endowed Nursing Scholarship Fund
- Residents of Fairfield County
- Students enrolled full time
- Priority consideration to a) Students with academic merit b) current or former association with Stamford Hospital
Henry J. and Marie Munger Scholarship
- Undergraduate and CEIN/BS students
- CT resident
- Preference for residents of Clinton, Guilford, or Madison
Janey Brooks Nursing Scholarship
- For incoming or continuing graduate student enrolled in the School of Nursing
- Demonstrate financial need
- Be pursuing a Doctor of Nursing Practice
John J. and Joan Couzens Sauer Endowed Nursing Fellowship
- Graduate students
- Students enrolled full time
Joseph Maurice Cantin and Charles Ernest Goosman Scholarship
- Undergraduate students
- Priority to students who have exhibited previous commitment and service to the needs of the lesbian and gay communities
Kathryn Stewart Hegedus Scholarship for Study Abroad
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Students enrolled in the Study Abroad Program
- Demonstrated financial need
- Demonstrate eligibility for nomination to Sigma Theta Tau
Lantos Family Scholarship for Nursing Students
- Enrolled in the accelerated CEIN/BS program
- Demonstrated financial need
Linda R. Suess Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate students
- Full time enrollment
- Demonstrated financial need
Linda Urman Rashba Memorial Scholarship
- Undergraduate, CEIN/BS, or Graduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
- Good academic standing
Lionel John and Helen Kinniery Cusson Scholarship Fund
- Undergraduate students
- Demonstrated financial need
- Priority consideration will be given to student athletes
Lucy A. LaCava ’62 Scholarship Fund
- Undergraduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
- Demonstrated academic achievement
Lynn and Doug Donaldson Scholarship Fund
- Undergraduate, graduate or doctoral students
- Students enrolled full time
Margaret Sczesny ’69, ’79 Scholarship for Pediatric Nursing
- Undergraduate, CEIN/BS or Graduate students
- Interested in pediatric nursing
- Demonstrated financial need
Maria K. Tackett Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate or graduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
Mary & Katherine Connelly Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate, CEIN and graduate students
- Demonstrated financial need
Mary Barbara Rice Scholarship Endowment
- Incoming freshmen
- Demonstrated financial need
McLeod Family Scholarship
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Students enrolled full-time
- Demonstrated Academic Achievement
- Demonstrated financial need
Nancy G. M. Miner, APRN, Endowed Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
- Full time enrollment
Natalie M. Monty Scholarship
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Students enrolled full-time
- Demonstrated financial need
Natividad Heraldo Condino Scholarship
- Juniors with a minimum GPA of 3.6
- Demonstrated financial need
- Demonstrated engagement in community service-related activities through outreach programs
Noelle Starr Arpin Memorial Scholarship
- Undergraduate student
- Demonstrate an interest in pediatric or neonatal intensive care units (“PICU/NICU”) field of study through research, employment, other activities, or coursework focused on child or infant health outcomes
- Priority consideration given to Connecticut residents
Nursing Scholars Fund Awards
- Undergraduate, CEIN, or graduate students
- Students enrolled full time
- Residents of Connecticut
- Graduates from a Connecticut high school
Patrice A. Hough Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate student
- Demonstrated financial need
Presnick Family Nursing Scholarship
- Juniors or seniors
- Students with a minimum GPA of 3.0 during their first two years at the School of Nursing
Ralph and Ruby Gilman Scholarship
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Priority to students with demonstrated financial need
Raymond and Mary Ladden Scholarship
- CEIN/BS students at the UConn Waterbury campus
- Resident of Hartford, Litchfield or New Haven counties
- Demonstrated leadership qualities
- Financial need may be considered
Richard and Maureen Hollfelder Memorial Scholarship
- Junior or senior undergraduate students
- Demonstrated financial need
Robert and Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation Scholarship
- Undergraduate students
- Residents of Hartford
- Demonstrated financial need
- Priority to students from a federally recognized underrepresented group
Robert Andrew Matheson Nursing Scholarship
- Undergraduate or graduate students
- Demonstrated strong leadership potential
Shelton/Squier Corrections Health Research Fellowship
- Full time graduate student
- Interest in correctional health research; conducting research related to substance dependence, mental disorders, infectious & chronic diseases & intellectual disabilities.
Wendy Garvin Mayo Nursing Scholarship
a. To be eligible for the scholarship(s), candidates must meet the following criteria:
i. Be an undergraduate student enrolled in their final academic year in the School of Nursing; and
ii. Demonstrate financial need.
b. From those candidates that meet the criteria cited in Section 3.0(b) above, while each candidate will receive individual consideration, priority consideration will be given to students who:
(1) have overcome obstacles such as socioeconomic or educational disadvantage; or
(2) are members of groups that are underrepresented at the University of Connecticut; or
(3) have experience living or working in diverse environments. The Foundation Board, after consultation with the University, may modify or disregard any selection criteria if determined to be contrary to law or then existing University or Foundation policy.
c. The scholarship(s) may be renewed annually to the recipient(s) provided academic progress satisfactory to the University is achieved and provided all criteria specified above continue to be met.
HRSA Nurse Faculty Loan Program
The purpose of NFLP is to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty to facilitate education of the nurses needed to address the nursing workforce shortage. The NFLP seeks to achieve this purpose by providing funding to schools of nursing to support the establishment and operation of a NFLP loan fund.
Participating schools of nursing make loans from the fund to assist registered nurses in completing their graduate education to become qualified nurse faculty. The program offers partial loan forgiveness for borrowers that graduate and serve as full-time nursing faculty for the prescribed period of time. The loan recipients may cancel 85% of the loan over four years in return for serving full time as faculty in any accredited school of nursing.
Download the NFLP application here.
Please contact Carol Polifroni with any questions about the HRSA Nurse Faculty Loan Program.
Additional Financial Resources
The Graduate School Fellowship Awards
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
