Nursing receives $7,500 scholarship grant from Dakota Medical Foundation The College of Nursing has received a match grant in the amount of $7,500 from Dakota Medical Foundation to support scholarships for nursing students. The grant award is contingent on the College raising matching dollars. Dakota Medical Foundation will provide a direct match, up to $7,500, for all scholarship dollars donated by alumni and friends. This opportunity allows one donor's gift to have double the impact. To date, more than $4,100 has been raised. "Dakota Medical Foundation is a true friend to nursing on both the UND campus and across the region," said Julie Anderson, dean of Nursing. "Their leaders are clearly aware of the effect nurses have on the community. Producing one nurse will, over a lifetime, directly affect nearly 1,000 people through the care they provide. Supporting nursing students really is an everlasting scholarship." Rising tuition and fees make funding a college degree difficult. Students often take part-time jobs to finance college, all the while losing valuable study time. If you would like to support this scholarship opportunity, please contact Becky Cournia at the UND College of Nursing for more information, 777-4526. Dakota Medical Foundation, Fargo, N.D., focuses its efforts on improving health and access to medical and dental care in the region, with a special emphasis on children. Since 1996, the Foundation has invested over $34 million to over 300 nonprofit organizations in the region. For more information, see www.dakmed.org . The UND College of Nursing offers both undergraduate and graduate programs of study in nursing, including RN-BSN and RN-MS distance-delivered degrees, and undergraduate programs in dietetics and community nutrition. The master's program, leading to a Master of Science (M.S.) degree with a major in nursing, boasts six specializations: psychiatric & mental health, family nurse practitioner, advanced public health nursing, nurse anesthesia, nursing education, and gerontological nursing. The master's program is targeted to prepare clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, nurse educators, and nurse administrators. The focus of the master's nursing program is based on scientific knowledge of nursing practice and education through research. The College also offers a Ph.D. program to prepare nurses for roles as nurse scientists and faculty. -- Becky Cournia, Alumni & Development Coordinator, Nursing, beckycournia@mail.und.edu, 777-4526