The Rockefeller University’s Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing in New York City will award five U.S. nurses the 2016 Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Awards.
Here are four highlights:
1. The awards' recipients include:
- Teresa L. Hagan
- Paule Joseph
- Krista Knudson
- Melissa Kurtz
- Kristen R. Weaver
2. The university first established the award ceremony in 2012.
3. Sisters Helaine Lerner and Joan Rechnitz established the awards' endowment in honor of their parents, Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn.
4. The Rockefeller University Hospital was the first center in the country devoted exclusively to medical research.
