Scholarships and Awards

Please submit all inquiries and applications by e-mail to the IAHC Scholarship and Awards Committee Members:

Beth Olafson, Co Chair  Scholarships@humancaring.org
Dawn Hawthorne, Co Chair 

Holly Wei, Member

Beth King, Member

Charlotte Barry, Member

2021 Scholarship Applications due date March 15th, 2021.

The International Association for Human Caring, through the generosity of donors, is happy to offer Nine Awards/Scholarships to support attendance at the Annual IAHC Conference and also to Advance Caring and Caring Science through specific theoretical perspectives.

This year 2021, the Conference will be virtual and the recipients of Scholarships will have their conference registration paid by the donors or to support research.

Please review the various Scholarships and application processes to select the one that is congruent with your goals of advancing caring by attendance at the conference and/or by advancing a specific theoretical perspective in research.

The Four Awards for Student Attendance are:

1. A Lynne Wagner Student Award
2. Jean Watson Student Award
3. Jim Droesbeke Student Caring Award
4. Justin Z. Goldin Student Caring Award.

The Five Awards for Advancing Caring from the lens of a specific Theoretical Perspective are:

1. Boykin and Schoenhofer Nursing as Caring Award
2. Madeleine Leininger Culture Care Award
3. Parker, Barry, & King Community Caring Award
4. Shirley C. Gordon Award
5. Vicente Teves Locsin, Jr. Research and Scholarship in Nursing Award