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Congratulations to the 2009-2010 Healthy Aging Scholarship Award Recipients!

The de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging is pleased to announce the 2009-2010 Healthy Aging Scholarship recipients. There were a limited number of scholarships available, and we extend our thanks and high regard to all who applied. Scholarship recipients receive funds and support for research projects related to healthy aging and older adults. We look forward to hearing the results of their work at our Healthy Aging Scholars' Presentations and Reception in May 2010.

Please join us in congratulating these exceptional scholars and their faculty mentors: Chao-Yin Li (Healthy Aging Doctoral Research Scholarship, Faculty mentors: Barbara Cochrane and Rebecca Logsdon); Betty Vanderzee (Healthy Aging Master's Research Scholarship, Faculty mentor: Jenny Tsai); Ann Lin (Healthy Aging Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Faculty mentor: Barbara Cochrane).  Their research projects are identified on the Scholars webpage.

New applications for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students will be available in February for Autumn 2010 scholarship funds.  Stay tuned!

Congratulations to Tatiana Sadak: John A. Hartford BAGNC Pre-doctoral Scholar!

Tatiana Sadak, BA, RN, MN, PMHNP, has been awarded a 2009-2011 JAHF Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Pre-doctoral Scholar.  Her research interests focus on dementia health services and multimorbidity. including cognitive decline,  medical illness, and neuropsychiatric symptoms.  As a master's student at the School of Nursing, she designed an educational program for acute-care nurses: Evidence-based Nursing Dementia Education and Acute-care Resources (ENDEAR). 

More information about the JAHF BAGNC Scholarship program is available on the School of Nursing's John A Hartford Foundation Awards Funding webpage and the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Scholars and Fellows webpage.