Nursing Student Awarded Scholarship from Education Consortium
Melissa Blakemore
Melissa Blakemore, a senior studying nursing at the University of Arkansas, received a $500 scholarship recently from the Northwest Arkansas Nursing Education Consortium.
The consortium awarded a scholarship to one senior each from the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at the U of A and the nursing programs at NorthWest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville and Northwest Technical Institute in Springdale.
Blakemore, a Fayetteville native, plans to graduate in December and work in a hospice setting.
Contacts
Heidi Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu