The Scholarship
Established by family and friends, the Shelley Joseph-Kordell
Memorial Scholarship will support graduate students enrolling in
the School of Public Health or other graduate schools at the
University of Minnesota, who have indicated a commitment to
working directly to improve the lives of older people.
Contributions for the scholarship can be sent to:
University of Minnesota Foundation
CM 3854
PO Box 70870
Saint Paul, MN 55170-3854
Please make checks out to the Shelley Joseph-Kordell
Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Click here
to make a donation by credit card.
The University has established the President’s Scholarship
Match program, which will match dollar for dollar the payout
of the scholarship. For more information about the Match
program, please
click here
2007 Recipient: Mary Dietrich
Mary Dierich has been caring for elders for her entire career starting as a nurse's aide in a local nursing home back in 1972. Along the way, she has worked in hospitals, nursing homes and clinics as a charge nurse, research coordinator, a director of nursing, program director, author, a nurse entrepreneur and geriatric nurse practitioner. Working in public institutions for most of her career, she saw first hand the effect of both poverty and the inability that lack of access to care had on her patients, particularly the elderly or disabled. In 2003, she completed a second Master's in Health Services, Research, Policy and Administration. Last fall, while her GRE score was still good and her mind warmed up, she decided to pursue her PhD in nursing. Her research interest is the effect housing and access to care have on the ability of elders to age in place.
2006 Recipient: Kristine Talley
Talley is pursuing her Ph.D. in gerontological nursing at the
University of Minnesota. During her doctoral studies, Talley has
excelled in her courses, achieving a 3.97 GPA. Graduate faculty members
rate her within the top 1% of all doctoral students. She was also one of
the University’s first B.S.-Nursing-Ph.D. students; during the course of
her studies she completed a masters degree in the Gerontological Nurse
Practitioner (GNP) track, and became certified as a GNP during the
summer of 2005. As an undergraduate nursing student at the University of
Minnesota, she was first in her graduating class of 135 students.
2005 Recipient: Rajean Moone
The 2005 Recipient of the Shelley Joseph-Kordell
Memorial Scholarship was Rajean Moone. Rajean received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the College of
Saint Scholastica (Duluth, Minn.) in 2000, minoring in
gerontology with an emphasis on human services and older
adults. After graduation, he was the coordinator of the
Senior LinkAge Line® and Northern Minnesota Area Geriatric
Education Center for the
Arrowhead Area Agency on Aging in Duluth. In 2004, Rajean
received his Master of Science degree in gerontology from
Saint Cloud State University, while concurrently working on
Minnesota's long-term care database, MinnesotaHelp.info at
the Minnesota Board on Aging. Today Rajean is pursuing his
PhD in Social Work and recently completed his nursing home
administrator licensure from the University of Minnesota.
His dissertation topic concerns the Older Americans Act
implementation. Rajean also works as the Special Projects
Coordinator at the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging and is
Chair of the Cottage Grove Human Services/Human Rights
Commission.
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