2010
Demetrius Abshire, PhD candidate, RN attended the 2010 National Institute of Nursing Research Summer Genetics Institute.
Karma Cassidy, PhD (2010), won first place in the Student Poster Division from the American Public Health Association for a poster based on her dissertation research titled, “Quality Improvement, Clinician Attitudes, and Referrals to Tobacco Treatment Counseling Programs. At the annual meeting in Denver, CO, November 2010.
Karma Cassidy, PhD (2010), received a $4,709 Howard L. Bost Memorial Scholar Award from the Foundation for Healthy Kentucky for her dissertation research, “Health System Processes, Clinician Attitudes, and Referrals to Tobacco Treatment Programs.”
Kyoung Suk Lee, PhD candidate, received funding for her dissertation, “Theory-based Symptom Diary Intervention to Improve Self-Care in Patients with Heart Failure,” in the amount of $4,500 from a Dissertation Research Grant, Sigma Theta Tau/Southern Nursing Research Society and a $7,500 grant from Sigma Theta Tau International/American Nurses Foundation.
Kyoung Suk Lee, PhD candidate, was awarded a non-service Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Graduate School. The fellowship includes tuition, health insurance, and a stipend.
2009
Demetrius Abshire, PhD student, received the Lyman T. Johnson Odyssey Award from the UK Student Government Association at the University Honors and Recognition Awards Program in April.
Martha Biddle, PhD student, received a $3500 Southern Nursing Research Society Dissertation Award for her research, “A Dietary Lycopene Intervention in Patients with Heart Failure.”
Melinda Blair, PhD student, received the 2009 National Award for Excellence in the Role of Professional Staff Development Leader from the National Nursing Staff Development Organization.
Rebecca Dekker, PhD candidate, received the $2,500 Young Investigator Award from the Cleveland Clinic Bakken Heart-Brain Institute.
Trudy Gochett, PhD student, received a two-year $30,000 fellowship from the American Cancer Society for her dissertation research, “Breast Cancer Survivorship: Factors Related to Psychological Well-Being.”
Fran Hardin-Fanning, PhD student, was awarded the James S. Brown Graduate Student Award for Research on Appalachia. She received $1,000 to support her dissertation research on the relationship between diet and cardiovascular risk in Appalachian Kentucky. She was the first nursing PhD student to receive this prestigious award.
Susan Hedgecock, PhD student, received the 2009 University of Kentucky Woman’s Club Fellowship.
Muna Hammash, PhD candidate, received a $3,000, Southern Nursing Research Society Dissertation Grant for her study, “Cardiac Dysrhythmias During Mechanical Ventilation,” at the Southern Nursing Research Society meeting in Baltimore, Md., February 2009.
Kyoung Suk Lee, PhD candidate, received the $2,500 Young Investigator Award from the Cleveland Clinic Bakken Heart-Brain Institute.
Jan Odom-Forren, PhD candidate, received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award for Perianesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach (5th edition), St. Louis, Elsevier.
Jia-Rong Wu, PhD graduate and Postdoctoral Fellow, received the 2009 Marie Cowan Promising Young Investigator Award from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Nursing.
2008
Rebecca Dekker, PhD student, 2008-2009 Philanthropic Educational Organization International Scholar Award ($15,000).
Muna Hammash, PhD candidate, received a one-year $10,000 award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for her study, “Cardiac Dysrhythmias During Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning from Ventilation.”
Gwen Hayes, PhD student, received first place for her poster, GIS Mapping: Tobacco Smoke, Radon, and Lung Cancer, at the Southern Nursing Research Society Annual Meeting held in Birmingham, Ala.
Evelyn Parrish (PhD 2008) received the Rising Star Award for Scholarship and Research from Sigma Theta Tau.
Elizabeth Scarbrough, PhD student, received a $7,000 Lawren H. Daltroy Fellowship in Patient-Clinician Communications from the American College of Rheumatology for her study, “A Patient-Health Care Provider Communication Scale.”