Unprecedented growth in enrollment for all of the programs at Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College is outpacing our available scholarship and fellowship resources. Your gift can help us provide financial aid for all nursing students in need…and your gift will change many lives. 

For our students, gifts for scholarships and fellowships can be a door to higher education and a better life.  They can be the key to making dreams come true.

For these students’ future patients, gifts for scholarships and fellowships ensure that their care will be in the hands of women and men who have the desire, commitment, and passion to excel as nurses.

For our college, gifts for scholarships and fellowships ensure that we have the support to prepare students for a nursing career in the 21st century

Did You Know? 236 students of Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College were awarded nearly $579,000 in scholarships from 62 funds in 2009--an increase of 36 students over the previous year. We thank our scholarship donors for making this possible!

through a program that offers the most advanced teaching, learning, and research opportunities available.  They help the college recruit master’s and doctoral students of the highest caliber, who elevate the quality and quantity of research.

Scholarship and fellowship givers ensure that Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College will continue its legacy of cultivating dedicated, compassionate nurses who are prepared to give the best possible care to patients and their families.

Your gift can start a scholarship or fellowship fund or enrich an existing scholarship or fellowship fund through the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation.  It’s a great way to help shape the future of nursing, or to give back because someone helped you.  


Meet a Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College Fellow!

For her master’s thesis, Suping Bao, RN, is studying patients with Alzheimer’s disease, and their respective caregivers, about their perspectives of hospice care and end-of-life issues. An adult nurse practitioner graduate student and an oncology nurse at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Bao was the recipient of the 2008-2009 Ruth and Sam Hacker Graduate Nursing Research Fellowship in Aging, funded by Dorismae and Harvey A. Friedman. The fellowship includes support for educational, conference and research endeavors in the field of memory and aging.