Julie Larson, a doctoral candidate in the School of Nursing, received the Eastern Nursing Research Society Doctoral Research Award by the National League for Nursing, or NLN. Larson, who earned her MSN at Widener in 2022 and is a nursing instructor at Thomas Jefferson University, was awarded $2,500 to conduct research titled "Nurse Educators’ Understanding of Social Justice as a Core Professional Value." Larson's project is one of nine grant-funded investigations partially funded by the NLN Foundation for Nursing Education to advance evidence-based, innovative scientific inquiry in pursuit of transformative excellence. 

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