For immediate release: Dec. 4, 2006
GALVESTON, Texas — Barbara Sapp Davis, a nursing master’s student at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Nursing, received a 2006 Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award for her work on behalf of African American veterans. Davis received the award at the caucus’ reception in Washington, D.C., in September. A local presentation was held Nov. 29 at the the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee presented the award at the Houston ceremony.
Davis is enrolled in the Web-based master’s degree program in Nursing Leadership in Complex Healthcare Organizations.
Gen. Colin Powell established the Congressional Black Caucus Veterans’ Braintrust Award in 1990 to recognize people and organizations that have provided exemplary national and community service on behalf of African American veterans.
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