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In Memory of Joyce DeGennaro

Gifts made to the Joyce DeGennaro Memorial Endowed Scholarship will honor the legacy that alumna and faculty member, Joyce DeGennaro, had on the lives of students, faculty and all who knew her. The scholarship will support undergraduate BSN students currently enrolled in the college with a preference given to members of the Student Nurses Association.

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On Sunday, November 29, 2020, Joyce DeGennaro ’03 ’09BSN ’13MS passed away. She leaves behind her loving husband Darren and two young children.

She used her own personal fight against breast cancer to provide UCF students with rare, real-world learning opportunities as she regularly incorporated aspects of her cancer treatments into her coursework. These included recordings of invasive medical procedures and frank conversations about her health status.

DeGennaro’s evolution as a teacher and her ongoing battle with cancer began June 23, 2015. The next five years would be comprised of chemotherapy, a bilateral mastectomy, four recurrences and more than 60 rounds of radiation therapy.

She took pride in the fact that she never missed a class session at UCF.

DeGennaro was awarded the 2017 Advisor of the Year Award from the Florida Nursing Students Association. She served a two-year term as president of UCF’s chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Society of Nursing. She was one of 31 UCF professionals honored during the university’s annual Women’s History Month Recognition. But the impact that she has made on her students is her most meaningful distinction, DeGennaro often said.

Megan Donnelly, a fourth-year nursing student who took DeGennaro’s Essentials of Nursing and Health Assessment class, says her courses emphasize the importance of forming a strong patient-nurse relationship.

“Engaging. Passionate. Dedicated. There are so many words that you could use to describe Joyce as a teacher and as a person that it’s hard to narrow it down to just a few,” says Donnelly. “ I will absolutely be a more caring and emphatic nurse thanks to her guidance and teaching.”

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