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College of Nursing Honors Spring Graduates at Awards Ceremonies
The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Nursing honored students during its biannual recognition ceremonies held recently at the Fleming Education Center Auditorium on the Gulf Park Campus in Long Beach, and at Bennett Auditorium on the Hattiesburg campus. For spring 2016, the College recognized 147 students, with 114 receiving their BSN nursing pins and 31 earning awards.
Student Awards, May 11, Gulf Park:
*Elizabeth Blackmon – National Dean’s List Award, National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Krysta Laabs — National Dean’s List Award, Elizabeth C. Harkins Award
*Kimberly Lacap – Jerri Laube-Morgan Award
*Rachel Moreno – Art & Heart of Nursing Award
*Cordelia Swayne — National Dean’s List Award, The Spirit of Nursing Award
*Dawn Turner — Nursing Eagle Award
Student Awards, May 12, Hattiesburg:
*Megan Barlow — National Dean’s List Award, National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Rachel Clay — National Dean’s List Award, National Collegiate Nursing Award,
Mississippi Nurses Foundation School of Nursing Scholarship
*Brooke Coulson – Gerry Cadenhead-Fletcher Award
*Betsy Cutrer — National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Katie Fleming — National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Rachel Fuller — National Dean’s List Award, National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Megan Funchess — National Dean’s List Award
*Anna Gilg — National Dean’s List Award
*Taylor Gressett — National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Hannah Hartdegen — National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Jennifer Kittler – Jerri Laube-Morgan Award
*Abby Kuyrkendall — National Dean’s List Award
*Miranda Leggett — National Collegiate Nursing Award, Nursing Eagle Award, Spirit of
Nursing Award
*Mallory Maples — National Dean’s List Award
*April Matthews — National Dean’s List Award
*Thomas Meece — National Dean’s List Award
*Renee Miley — National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Abbie Odom — National Collegiate Nursing Award, Bates-Sisemore Excellence in
Maternal-Child Nursing Award
*Tori Ratliff — National Dean’s List Award
*Kela Spikes-Bickham – Doctor of Nursing Practice Award
*Kamie Stephens — National Dean’s List Award , Elizabeth C. Harkins Award
*Ashley VanDeWalker — National Dean’s List Award
*Jordan Walker — National Collegiate Nursing Award
*Jonathan Whitehead – Master of Nursing Science Award
*Kristen Yelverton — National Collegiate Nursing Award
For more information about The Southern Miss College of Nursing, visit www.usm.edu/nursing.






