Award Recipients

2025 Alumni Award Recipients

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Melissa Beauchemin, PhD'19 | Award for Nursing Research

Early Career Alumni Award

  • Kasey Jackman, PhD'17 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award
  • Laurie Ray, MS'11 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award

Past Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

2020 - 2024

2024

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Jennifer Dohrn, DNP'08 | Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing
  • Carolyn Sun, PhD'15 | Award for Nursing Education
  • Lucinda Canty, BS'91 | Award for Nursing Practice
  • Samantha Stonbraker, PhD'16 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Jared Kutzin, BS'05 | Award for Nursing Education

2023

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Kenrick Cato, PhD '14 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Mary Moran, MS '08 | Neighbors Humanitarian Award
  • Arlene Smaldone, PhD '03 | Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing
  • Olivia Velez, PhD '11 | Award for Nursing Administration

2022

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Felesia Bowen, PhD '10 | Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing
  • Pamela de Cordova, PhD '11 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Karen Desjardins, DNP '05 | Award for Nursing Education
  • Po-Yin Yen, PhD '10 | Award for Nursing Research

2021

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Elizabeth Cohn, PhD '09 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Anna Woloski-Wruble, BS '82 | Award for Nursing Education

2020

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Patricia Jean Moreland, PhD '10 | Award for Nursing Education

2010 - 2019

2019

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Elizabeth Cooper, MS '71 | Award for Nursing Administration
  • Nessa Coyle, MS '81 | Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing
  • Linda Kivowitz Glazner, BS '64 | Award for Neighbors Humanitarian 
  • Elaine Larson | Honarary Distinguished Alumni Award
  • Judith Mercer, MS '74 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Sarah Collins Rossetti, PhD '09 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Tener Goodwin Veenema, BS '80 | Award for Nursing Education 

2018 

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Jeannemarie Gelin Baker, MS ’90 | Neighbors Humanitarian Award
  • Susan Green Cooksey, BS ’68 | Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing 
  • Ann-Margaret Dunn Navarra, PhD ’11 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Anne Penland, class of 1912 (1885-1976), BS '12 | In Memoriam for Lifetime Achievement Award
  • William Daniel Roberts, PhD ’05 | Award for Nursing Administration
  • Margaret Walsh, MS ’94 | Award for Nursing Practice

2017 

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Jesus Casida, MS '96 | Award for Nursing Education
  • Lora Peppard, DNP '08 | Nursing Education
  • Rebecca Schnall, PhD '09 | Award for Nursing Research

2016 

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Amy Ansehl, MS ’96 | Award for Nursing Administration
  • Susan Krienke Chase, BS ’72 | Award for Nursing Education
  • Wei-Ti Chen, PhD ’02 | Award for Nursing Research 
  • Jill Kilanowski, MS ’82 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Viola Gommer, BS ’60 | Award for Neighbors Humanitarian
  • Wilhelmina Manzano | Honarary Distinguished Alumni Award

2015 

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Joyce Anastasi, DNP '05 | Award for Nursing Research
  • Christopher Comfort | Honarary Distinguished Alumni Award
  • Chana Engel, MS '09 | Award for Nursing Practice
  • Judy Honig, DNP '05 | Award for Nursing Education
  • Janna Lesser, BS '81 | Award for Nursing Education
  • Annie Rohan, PhD '13 | Award for Nursing Practice

2014 

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Kathleen Barnes, MS '89 | Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing
  • Margaret Mabrey Craig, BS '64 | Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing
  • Rachel Lyons, DNP '07 | Award for Nursing Education
  • Susan Levy Mascitelli, BS '74 | Award for Nursing Administration
  • Charlotte Munck, Class of 1909, BS '09 | Alumni Award in Memoriam for Lifetime Achievement
  • Beth Oliver, MS '91 | Alumni Award in Memoriam for Lifetime Achievement

2013 

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA 

  • Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP '05
  • Patricia L. Riley, BS '76
  • June Siegfreid, BS '39

2012 

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Janice Jones Izlar, MS '06
  • Margaret Ada Mutch, BS '36

2011 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Vanessa Battista, MS '08
  • Kirsten Malone, MS '09
  • Kate Rossettie, MS '08

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Alice Bonner, BS '81
  • Faith Hawley Howarth, BS '61
  • Betty Chin Jung, BS '71
  • Christina Alvarado Shanahan, BS '81
  • Holly Howard Stover, BS '61

2010 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • My Hanh Nguyen, MS '07
  • Rosalie Perez, MS '07

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Barbara Decker, BS '60
  • Virginia Shultz Humphrey, BS '60

2000 - 2009

2009 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Jeannie Cimiotti, PhD '04

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Carol Heeks Brice, BS '59
  • Sally Eckert Arbolino, BS '64

2008 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Dawn Bucher, DNP '07
  • Velta Willis, MS '04

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Brooke Serpe Ingold, BS '68
  • Marguerite Wales, BS '20

2007 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Bernadette Capili, PhD '02

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Louise Greene Bobrow, BS '69
  • Deborah Camp Wheeling, BS '75

2006 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Amanda Segilia, MS '04
  • Glenn Wurtzel, MS '02

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Elizabeth Jones Davis, BS '61
  • Jean Gleichenhaus Kressy, BS '60
  • Margo Payne Leithead, BS '74
  • Tania Shiminski Maher, BS '81

2005 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Patricia Dykes, PhD '04
  • William Enlow, DNP '10

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Elizabeth Kerr Hay, BS '67
  • Anne Hahn Powell, BS '65

2004

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Lawrence Landphair, MS '03
  • Roland Larkin, PhD '08

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Mary Masterson Germain, BS '64
  • Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger, BS '59
  • Margaret Krantz Stull, BS '60

2003

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Mary Lou Ryder-Larkin, MS '98
  • Catherine Tanksley, MS '98

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • V. Eunice Hamilton Ellison, BS '51
  • Deena Penchansky Lisak, BS '64
  • Mary Katherine Brough Maroney, BS '61
  • Carol Single Stilley, BS '63
  • Kenneth Zwolski, BS '78

2002 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Maribeth Leigh Massie, MS '98

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Virginia Henderson
  • Marilyn Ceperano Liota, BS '51
  • Karol Murov, BS '67
  • Carol Roye, MS '86

2001 

Awarded by CUSONAA

  • Roxana Sasse, DNP '11

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Christina Browne, BS '65
  • RoAnne Muldoon Dahlen, BS '61
  • Jane McConville, BS '51
  • Eileen McLoughlin Stiles, BS '58
  • Shirley Simon Vollmer, BS '53

2000 

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Cathy Bagnal Shimmel, BS '71
  • Nancy Vendura, MS '97

1990 - 1999

1999

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Ria Grace Hawks, MS '92
  • Virginia Hicks Barrett, BS '64
  • Rosanna Forman Hess, BS '74
  • Sally Ruffner Leiter, BS '66
  • Mary Ellen Munsche Stanton, BS '69

1998

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Cheryl Avellanet, BS '71
  • Vanessa Noble Gang, BS'64

1997

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Anne Brennecke, MS '95
  • Deborah Koniak-Griffin, BS '70
  • Lillian Turner, BS '45
  • Helen Young, BS '12

1996

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • E. Joyce Gould, BS '68
  • Christine Tassone Kovner, BS '69
  • Eleanor Lee, BS '20*

1995

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Carole Birdsall, MS '87
  • Phebe Miner Goldman, BS '70
  • Mary Catherine Houston, BS '32
  • Frances Donovan Monahan, BS '66
  • Rose Ann Naughton, BS '59

1994

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Ramon L. Lavandero, BS '72
  • Shawn M. McCabe, MS '88
  • Mary M. Petriccione, BS '79
  • Florence Vanderbilt, BS '27

1993

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Lea Ormezzano Battiato, BS '54
  • Evvy Hay Campbell, BS '70
  • Carole Smyth, MS '85
  • Delight Mocas Tillotson, BS '52

1992

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Elizabeth Wallace Brackett, BS '34
  • Marie C. Bryon, BS '17
  • Sylvia Carlson , BS '47
  • Harriet Mantel Deleuran, BS '33
  • Phyllis DiFilippo
  • Evelyn Elwood, BS '39
  • Martha Haber Delano, BS '49
  • Bettie Springer Jackson, BS '67
  • Marianne Taft Marcus, BS '55
  • JoAnne C. Messore Shotwell, BS '72
  • Mathy Doval Mezey, BS '60
  • Mary O'Neil Mundinger
  • Elizabeth Lloyd Graham, BS '52
  • Marjorie Peto, BS '26
  • Robin Roy
  • Mara Leslie San Antonio Gaddy, BS '83
  • Helen L. Scott, BS '27
  • Edith Schwartz Shapiro, BS '56
  • Elma Clark Smith, BS '36
  • Mary E. Windrow, BS '40

1991

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Cynthia Kilburn Kelly, BS '42
  • Margaret McEvoy, BS '60
  • Marion Richardson Thompson, BS '60

1990

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Ellen Davidson Baer, BS '62
  • Eleanor Hall, BS '36
  • Elizabeth Hahn Winslow, BS '65

1980 - 1989

1989

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Penelope Buschman Gemma, BS '65
  • Keville Frederickson Tomasson, BS '64

1988

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Jacqueline Dee Pitts Bailey, BS '85
  • Laurie Verdisco, BS '58
  • Mila Ann Swyers Aroskar, BS '61

1987

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Mary E. Conway, BS '46
  • J.M. Ada Mutch, BS '36
  • A. Faye Wattleton, BS '67

1986

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Janet A. Alley, BS '52
  • Patricia G. Archbold, BS '66
  • Elizabeth Zawalick Hughes, BS '60

1985

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

1985: Suzanne Law Hawes, BS '59

1984

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Marion D. Cleveland, BS '27
  • Lois Mueller Glazier, BS '60

1983

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Dorothy E. Reilly, BS '42

1982

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Cecile Covell, BS '26
  • Elizabeth S. Gill, BS '37

1981

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Grace Davidson, BS '42

1980

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

Mary Wasson Britten, BS '59
Helen F. Pettit, BS '36

1977 - 1979

1979

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Dorothy M. Rogers, BS '25

1978

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Margaret Wells, BS '29
  • June Travers Werner, BS '45

1977

Awarded by CUPHSONAA

  • Margaret E. Conrad, BS '20

Past Early Career Alumni Award Recipients

2020 - 2024

2024

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Aluem Tark, PhD'19 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award

2023

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Kyungmi Woo, PhD '18 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award

2022

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD '18 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award

2021

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Ava Dawson, MS '12 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award
  • Hannah Lee, MS '14 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award

2020

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Allison Norful, PhD '17 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award
  • Jasmine Travers, PhD '16 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award

2019

2019

Awarded jointly by CUSONAA and CUPHSONAA

  • Donald R. Boyd, Jr., PhD '17 | Emerging Nurse Leader Award