NLN Announces 2025 Research Grants Winners

NLN Announces 2025 Research Grants Winners

Awards Presentation Will Be Held at the 2025 Education Summit in Orlando, Florida

Washington, DC – The National League for Nursing proudly announces the winners of the annual competitive scholarly research grants program, administered by the NLN/Chamberlain University College of Nursing Center for the Advancement of the Science of Nursing Education and partially funded by the NLN Foundation for Nursing Education. Formal presentation to the grant recipients will take place during the 2025 NLN Education Summit in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday, September 18.

NLN Chair Patricia Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, Dean and Strawbridge Professor at the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions at Ursuline College in Ohio, congratulated the scholars, saying, “We are proud to support your impressive scholarly endeavors, which attest to originality and rigor. These are two necessary attributes to identify the best evidence-based practices for the implementation and translational research.”

NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, said, “The National League for Nursing has a unique responsibility to advance evidence-based, innovative scientific inquiry in pursuit of transformative excellence. Our gratitude extends to the dedicated scholars on the Research Grants Review Panel who make these tough selections from a competitive field of research grants applicants.”

2025 NLN Nursing Education Research Grants

Dorothy Otto Research Award

Project Title: Promoting Academic Success Through Visual Numeracy

Deanna Marriott, PhD; Cherie Conley, PhD, RN

University of Michigan

Award: $29,327

Ruth Donnelly Corcoran Research Award

Project Title: Factors Associated with Job Satisfaction and Retention of Nurse Educators

Joanne Noone, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN, ANEF; Nathan Dieckmann, PhD

Oregon Health and Science University

Award: $26,923

NLN Foundation / Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo Research Award

Project Title: Nurse Educator Literacy and Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence

Susan H. Lane, PhD., RN; Dana E. Brackney, PhD, RN

Appalachian State University

Award: $30,000

New Award for 2025: Emerging Investigator Research Award

Project Title: Exploring the Relationships Among the Social Determinants of Learning in Pre-Nursing Students

Leslie Jennings, PhD, RN, CNE; Regina Urban, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, MA-LPC

University of Texas-Arlington

Award: $5,000

Mary Anne Rizzolo Doctoral Research Award

Project Title: Enhancing Ethics Education in Nursing Students

Laura Nold, MSN, RN, CPN, CNE (doctoral candidate, University of Missouri)

Missouri Western State University

Award: $2,500

Co-Sponsored Awards

NLN / Sigma Foundation for Nursing Diane Billings Research Award

Project Title: An e-Learning Programme for Nursing Clinical Facilitators in Four African Countries

Lizemari Hugo, Professor

University of the Free State, South Africa

Award: $5,000

NLN / Southern Nursing Research Society Doctoral Research Award

Project Title: Demographic and Other Factors as Predictors of Resilience in Nursing Students

Charmaine Hutchinson, MSN, FNP, RN, CNE (doctoral candidate)

University of West Georgia

Award: $5,000

NLN / Eastern Nursing Research Society Doctoral Research Award

Project Title: Nurse Educators’ Understanding of Social Justice as a Core Professional Value

Julie Larson, MSN, RN (doctoral candidate, Widener University)

Thomas Jefferson University

Award: $2,500

NLN / Western Institute of Nursing Doctoral Research Award

Project Title: Factors Associated with Stress and Symptoms of Depression Among Undergraduate Nursing Students

Ling Xu, RN, BSN (doctoral candidate)

University of California San Francisco

Award: $5,000

For more information about the 2025 NLN Education Summit, including registration, visit Summit.NLN.org.

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