School of Health & Human Performance
The Nell A. Stallings Graduate Fellowship
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Eligibility- Incoming graduate student currently making application to study in Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
- Outstanding academic qualifications (GRE, GPA).
- Recommended by their department head (or designee).
- Recent participation in extracurricular activities that support and extend their area of major interest.
Usual size of award: TBD
Unique RequirementsAward rotates through departments.
Award is for initial year of graduate study only.
HistoryThe Nell A. Stallings Graduate Fellowship in the School of Health and Human Performance was established in 2002 through a bequest from the Estate of Nell A. Stallings, Class of 1936.
Nell A. StallingsA native of Franklin County, North Carolina, Ms. Stallings was born in 1915 and was the youngest of nine children. At the Woman's College she majored in Physical Education and received a master's degree in the same area from UNC. Ms. Stallings taught aquatics, dance, movement and kinesiology at High Point College (now University) and at East Carolina University where she taught for thirty-seven years and retired as Professor of Physical Education. At ECU she supervised student teachers and served on high school accreditation teams. Through the American Red Cross she gave swimming and water safety instruction programs across North Carolina for which she was awarded a fifty-two year service pin. She was also active in Girl Scouting as an adult leader.
