Growing gifts to serve needs.

Everyone who knows Zoe Shah (’24) would say she brings a zest for life to everything she does. Her involvement on campus includes founding Bison Skaters, a student organization that brings people together around a common interest of skating. She has also helped start a Lipscomb chapter of Nurses Christian Fellowship.

In the classroom, Zoe loves that Lipscomb classes are small enough for real conversation. “One of my favorite things about the classroom experience has been classroom dialogue,” Zoe says. “I love when the professor involves the students, and the class sizes are small enough that it makes it very possible to do that, even in a class of 60.” That’s about as big a class as you’ll find here.

And her professors have become mentors and friends who have encouraged Zoe to explore her interests. She’ll gush about her evidence-based research professor, Jennifer Hicks. “She just gives me so much personal advice into my own nursing path but also my personal spiritual journey.”

Her experience in Professor Hicks’ class provided an opportunity to present her research at Lipscomb’s annual Student Scholars Symposium. “Through my evidence-based practice class, I’ve gotten to see that research is a very important part of nursing. And not every undergraduate nursing program will get to experience the amount of research we get to be involved in.”

A theme of her Lipscomb experience, Zoe leads by serving, and that's why she wants to become a nurse. “There’s a lot of reasons, but I think this is where my giftings and passions meet the needs of the world .”