Kent state University was awarded $400 thousand dollars in funding to establish scholarships that will support prospective nursing students in the region.

The scholarships will be available at four campuses across the valley, including Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana County.

The new scholarships are listed below:

The District Three Nurses Mary Ellen Patton Scholarship for Trumbull and District Three Mary Ellen Patton Scholarship for Salem will support students from Kent State Trumbull and Kent State Salem enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program.

The District Three Nurses Make a Difference Scholarship for Kent will support Registered Nurses (RN) enrolled in the RN-BSN completion program at Kent State University's Kent Campus.

The District Three Nurses Make a Difference Scholarship for East Liverpool will support Kent State East Liverpool students enrolled in the Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program.

The Mary Patton Ellen scholarship gets its name from the woman who co-led a 13-day mass resignation action in the 60's.

She believed registered nurses in the state of Ohio were undervalued and was determined to change the wages and benefits for all registered nurses making less than $2.00 per hour.

Patton's efforts spearheaded the economic and general welfare program in Ohio and led to the Ohio Nurses Association's (ONA) first bargaining unit.

Kent State's College of Nursing is the largest BSN program in Ohio and one of the nation's largest and most respected nursing schools

The College of Nursing produces 34% more BSN students graduate than our biggest competitor in the state of Ohio, and 61% more than our largest competitor in NEO.

Kent State University offers its Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Geauga, Kent, Salem, Stark, and Trumbull campuses.