List of Endowments

The entire University of Maryland School of Nursing community is deeply grateful for this truly thoughtful philanthropy, which will benefit the School and its students, faculty, and staff for generations to come.

When you give a gift to UMSON, you may choose to support any of the funds listed below.

  • 125th Anniversary Scholarship Endowment
  • Aegon USA Scholarship Fund
  • Dean Janet D. Allan Scholarship Fund
  • Ferdinand and Dolores Alsruhe Memorial Scholarship Endowment
  • Jeanne Ascosi, BSN ’74, Scholarship Endowment
  • Estella Coates Baldwin, RN, Class of 1927 Diploma in Nursing Scholarship Endowment
  • Sara E. King Barger Scholarship Endowment
  • Zabelle S. Beard Scholarship Endowment
  • Marjorie Stamler Bergemann Scholarship Endowment
  • Jihan D. Bing Memorial Scholarship Endowment
  • John Bing CRNA Scholarship
  • Dr. Jean Bloom Scholarship Endowment
  • Carol Miller Blum, MPH, BSN ’74
  • Kathryn A. Brush, MS ’92, Memorial Scholarship
  • Mary Catherine Bunting Clinical Nurse Leader Scholarship Endowment
  • Ann Ottney Cain Lectureship in Psychiatric Nursing
  • Dorothy Cochel Calafiore Scholarship Fund
  • Shirley E. Callahan Scholarship Endowment
  • Marlene Hockenberry Cianci DNP Scholarship Endowment
  • Lansdale G. and Gladys B. Clagett Scholarship and Loan Fund
  • C&K Clark Family Foundation Scholarship Endowment
  • Class of 1966 Scholarship Endowment
  • Class of 1972 Scholarship Endowment
  • Bonnie L. Closson, BSN ’61, and Jon B. Closson, MD ’62, Scholarship Endowment
  • Elizabeth Collins Lee Prize Fund
  • Virginia Carolyn Conley Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Darlene J. Curley Scholarship Endowment
  • Dean’s Scholarship Fund
  • Jill DeCesare Scholarship Endowment
  • Emily Posey Deitrick Community Health Nursing Scholarship
  • Dr. Linda Diaconis Scholarship Endowment
  • DNP Scholarship Endowment
  • Susan G. Dorsey, PhD ’01, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, and Joel Greenspan, PhD, Scholarship Endowment
  • Florence S. Downs Scholarship Fund
  • Carol Drake, ARNP (BSN ’68), Scholarship Endowment
  • Geni J. Dunnells Memorial Scholarship Endowment
  • Millicent Geare Edmunds Fund
  • Commander Lura Jane Emery Seminar Series for Nursing Practice Endowment
  • Faculty and Staff Scholarship Fund
  • Fairfield Community Foundation Scholarship Endowment
  • Cecil and Hazel Flick Scholarship Endowment
  • Kathryn Patchen Freer, MSN, BSN ’74, Endowed Scholarship
  • Judith Ann Freitag, BSN, MSN, CCRN, Scholarship Endowment
  • Helene Fuld Health Trust Scholarship Fund for Baccalaureate Nursing Students
  • Joyce Noreen Gering, MS ’92, Scholarship Endowment
  • Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology
  • Florence M. Gipe Scholarship Fund
  • Dr. Charlene G. Gooch, PhD, BSN ’71, Scholarship Endowment
  • Endowment for Graduate Program Excellence
  • Kylanne Green Scholarship Endowment
  • ReAnna Greene Scholarship Endowment
  • Thomasine Guberski Award for Excellence in Adult Primary Care
  • Tomas Guberski, PhD, CRNP, Scholarship Endowment
  • Anna Gudelsky Memorial Scholarship Endowment
  • Barbara E. Hanley – Marie M. Stimpson Scholarship Fund
  • Grace Elgin Hartley Scholarship Fund
  • Dr. Winifred (Wini) Still Hayes Scholarship Endowment
  • Kelly Heisler, RN, Scholarship Fund
  • Dr. Barbara R. Heller Endowed Lecture in Health Policy
  • Dr. Marie L. Hesselbach Scholarship Fund
  • William F. and Caroline Hilgenberg Foundation Scholarship Fund
  • Heddy Hubbard, PhD, MPH, BSN ’73, RN, FAAN, Scholarship Endowment
  • Linda Foote Hyatt Scholarship Endowment
  • Col. (Ret.) Carol A. and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael F. Huebner Doctoral Scholarship Endowment
  • Anne Opie Hughes Scholarship Endowment
  • Drs. Karen and Richard Huss Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. Mary Susan Jamison Scholarship Fund
  • Bruce Jarrell Scholarship Endowment
  • Meg E. Johantgen, PhD, RN, Scholarship Endowment
  • Tracy L. Johnson Scholarship Endowment
  • Jeanette A. Jones, MS ’70, Scholarship Endowment
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Scholarship Fund
  • Ellen Kates Scholarship Endowment
  • Joseph and Mary Kelly Scholarship Endowment
  • Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN, Scholarship Endowment
  • Melvin and Marie Kirschling Endowment for Student Leadership
  • Eugenia C. Kiser ’47 Scholarship Endowment
  • Knights of Pythias Endowment Fund
  • Dr. Mildred Kreider Scholarship Endowment
  • Stephanie L. Kreiner Student Aid Fund
  • La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux Voiture 113 Nursing Scholarship
  • Cynthia P. Lewis, BSN ’58, Award Endowment
  • Judith H. Littlejohn Memorial Scholarship in Health Policy
  • Mia Loizeaux Memorial Scholarship Endowment
  • Wendy Luttrell Spirit Scholarship Endowment
  • Mildred E. Madsen Scholarship
  • Dr. Frank C. Marino Scholarship Fund
  • Marriott Scholars Fund
  • Adelaide Coward McCotter Memorial Fund
  • Esther E. McCready Scholarship Endowment
  • CDR Joseph McKinney Scholarship Endowment
  • Karen A. McQuillan Endowed Scholarship
  • Dr. Norma J. Melcolm Scholarship Endowment
  • Jacqueline Marie Melonas, JD, MS ’79, BSN ’73, Memorial Endowment
  • Sharon L. Michael Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. Mary Etta Mills Scholarship Endowment
  • Patricia Gonce Morton Trauma Critical Care Endowment
  • Glenda (Nikki) Burdett Motta (BSN ’71) Scholarship Endowment
  • Furman and Helen Murphree and Nathaniel and Mary Peeples Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. Marion I. Murphy Research Fund
  • The Honorable Shirley Nathan-Pulliam Scholarship Endowment
  • Eva Carlson Ness Scholarship Endowment
  • Frank and Robin Newhouse Scholarship Endowment
  • Rear Adm. Elizabeth S. Niemyer NC, USN (Ret.) Scholarship Endowment
  • Elliott Noble Family Scholarship
  • Cynthia Ellen Northrop Scholarship Fund
  • Cynthia Northrop Memorial Scholarship Endowment for PhD Students
  • Herminia G. Nudo ’63 School of Nursing Museum Fund
  • Elizabeth O’Connell, MS ’74, BSN ’73, Scholarship Endowment
  • Marla Oros Scholarship Endowment
  • Harriet Palmer-Willis Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. Barbara J. Parker Scholarship Endowment
  • Charlene M. Passmore Scholarship Endowment
  • Sherry B. Perkins Scholarship Endowment
  • Andrea M. Perman Scholarship Endowment in Undergraduate Nursing
  • PhD Alumni Scholarship Endowment
  • Gladys Poffenberger Fund
  • Dorothy Toom Pollock and Patricia Robinson Smith Scholarship Fund
  • Edward H. and Frances W. Price Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Dr. Joseph Proulx Scholarship Endowment
  • Rita Przygocki Pay It Forward Scholarship Endowment
  • Mary Kay Ratigan Scholarship Endowment
  • Lena McDaniel Rauschenbach School of Nursing Fund
  • John Repique Scholarship Endowment
  • Resnick-Sollins Gerontological Nursing Scholarship Endowment
  • Michelle Trapani Rivest Scholarship Endowment
  • Rodriguez Memorial Scholarship
  • Caleb A. Rogovin, MS ’92, Endowment for Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency Nursing
  • Linda E. Rose, PhD, Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. Lisa Rowen Scholarship Endowment
  • Virginia K. Saba Nurse Informatics Scholarship Endowment
  • Herman and Walter Samuelson Scholarship Endowment
  • William Donald Schaefer Nurse Faculty Fund
  • Sandra Willa Schoenfisch Endowed Scholarship
  • Pamela and W. Winslow Schrank Family Scholarship Endowment
  • Eleanor B. Schron, PhD, Scholarship Endowment
  • Alice Catharine Horine Scigliano Nursing Scholarship Endowment
  • William D. and Beverly B. Seeley Memorial Scholarship Endowment
  • Frankie J. Sherwood Fund
  • Sigma Theta Tau Fund
  • Sigma Theta Tau Pi Chapter Endowment
  • Cecilia Sitzman Memorial Scholarship
  • Kimberly Doll Skelley, MS ’11, Memorial Scholarship Endowment
  • Brigadier General Connie L. Slewitzke Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Claudia Smith Scholarship Endowment
  • Hilda Mae Snoops Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Sue Song Culture Connection Scholarship Endowment
  • Katharine S. Speers, BSN ’54, Scholarship
  • Debra L. Spunt Clinical Simulation Practice and Research Endowment
  • Susan B. Steinberg, BSN ’77, Scholarship Endowment
  • Evelyn C. Steiner Scholarship Fund
  • Barbara Ann Stepura Scholarship Endowment
  • Miriam Irene Stine Memorial Fund
  • Sandra Sundeen, MS ’68, Scholarship Endowment
  • Elizabeth Tafelski Memorial Scholarship Endowment for the School of Nursing
  • Dora E. Tancredi and Susan L. Tancredi, MS ’79, BSN ’69, Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. Tarun Fund
  • Courtney Ann Kehoe Thomas and James P. Thomas Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. and Mrs. F.X. Paul Tinker Clinical Nurse Leader Scholarship Endowment
  • Marion Burns Tuck Scholarship Endowment
  • Dr. Margaret G. Tyson Dean’s Fund for Excellence
  • Ida Nagel Unger Scholarship Fund
  • Peter and Lena Violi Scholarship Fund
  • UMMS/UMMC Dean Jane Kirschling Scholarship for the School of Nursing
  • David Vlahov Scholarship Endowment
  • Betty H. Wagner Honorary Scholarship Endowment
  • Sandra L. Freer Walter Scholarship Endowment
  • Carolyn F. Waltz and Ora L. Strickland Endowment for School of Nursing Student Research and
  • Evaluation Projects
  • Hattie Weiner Scholarship Fund
  • John L. Whitehurst Fund
  • Sara A. Whitehurst Fund
  • Willens Scholarship Endowment
  • May Wong, MS ’74, Nursing Faculty Endowment Fund
  • Edward and Emma Young Scholarship Endowment
  • Patricia Ann Yow Endowment

As of July 2023; list updated annually