Chris Ann Meany of East Haddam earns Quinnipiac University award

HAMDEN, CT (05/29/2013)(readMedia)-- Chris Ann Meaney, of East Haddam, received the Academic Excellence Award from the doctor of nursing practice program in the School of Nursing at Quinnipiac University.

This award, presented May 11 at the university's Graduate Awards Ceremony, recognizes the student who has maintained the highest grade point average in the program and has excelled in both the didactic and clinical/laboratory phases of their post-bachelor's degree education.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,200 full-time undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges issue. The 2013 issue of U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the Northern Region. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's "The Best 377 Colleges." For more information, please visit http://www.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.