Archive for July, 2006

Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships Social Sciences and Humanities 2007-2008

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2007-2008 Fellowship competition. The Center awards approximately 20-25 academic year residential fellowships to individuals from any country with outstanding project proposals on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural [...]

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Kentuckians capture merit scholarships

More than 50 recent Kentucky graduates of high schools are among 2,100 winners of college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships announced earlier this week.
They will receive $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
Previously announced college-sponsored winners were listed in the Courier-Journal on May 25.

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Darton College International Student Fellowship Program

Darton College is a two-year college of the University System of Georgia offering Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, and Associate of Applied Science degrees, and one-year certificate programs.
The Darton College International Student Fellowship Program waives the out-of-state cost of tuition for eligible students. This will be a savings of approximately $7,200 per year. The [...]

Monday, July 17th, 2006

The University of Adelaide Postgraduate Scholarships

The University of Adelaide offers a scholarships scheme for international students undertaking postgraduate study. The selection for scholarships is extremely competitive. Recent successful applicants for the research awards have usually had a research Masters, or a coursework Masters with a substantial research component, outstanding academic performance at an internationally recognized university, and publications in internationally [...]

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Butterfield Bank doubles visual art scholarships

For the past seven years Butterfield Bank has given a $5,000 award to a visual arts student, but this year it has not only doubled the value of the award but also the number of recipients.
“We have done this for two reasons,” Tracy Outerbridge, assistant vice-president, marketing and communications, says. “Firstly, over the years we [...]

Monday, July 17th, 2006

GaDangme Heritage Announces Scholarship Scheme

A scholarship scheme aimed at needy children in the inner city and rural Ga and Dangme areas is to be launched during the forthcoming 2006 GaDangme Congress to be held in Accra starting 16 August 2006. [Details of the Congress can be obtained at] http://groups.msn.com/2006GaDangmeCongress/welcome.msnw
The scheme, to be called GaDangme Heritage Scholarship Scheme, is [...]

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Wabash National Awards Scholarships for 2006

Wabash National Corp. (NYSE: WNC) today awarded four students with scholarships that, combined, represent a total award of up to $32,000. Scholarships were presented at an awards ceremony held this afternoon at the company’s headquarters in Lafayette, Ind.
Wabash National’s annual scholarship program provides recipients with $1,000 per semester for up to four years. Scholarships are [...]

Friday, July 14th, 2006

MU Scholarships Still Available

University of Missouri officials say 2,000 scholarships available for the coming school year went unclaimed. It is the first year the university has offered scholarships as part of the $10-Million fund set up to settle a class action lawsuit. Nearly 3,000 students were awarded $500 scholarships, but enough money was in the fund to award [...]

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Student group pushes University for official study-abroad program to Israel

The University doesn’t have an official study-abroad program to Israel, but a student group wants to change that.
Gopher Israel Public Affairs Committee’s main goal next year is to establish an offical Israel study-abroad program through the University, said the group’s president, Julia Krieger, a journalism sophomore.
“The consensus has been that until the U.S. travel warning [...]

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Grayling High School graduate completes study abroad in Russia

Like many forward thinking students from Crawford County, Frederic resident Jamie Pinkelman, who graduated from Grayling High School in 2005, decided to take a couple classes this summer.
She didn’t go to Kirtland. Nor did she go to her regular campus at Michigan State University. She decided to try something different. She spent six weeks studying [...]

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Sierra College Announces Study Abroad Program -Photography in Peru

Sierra College is accepting applications for the Intercession 2006-07 study abroad program in Peru with award-winning photography instructor, Rebecca Gregg. Professor Gregg has led several educational programs abroad with Sierra College, including China, Russia, Italy, Austria, and Peru for the Intercession 2005/06.
This 17-day program in Peru will depart form SFO and arrive in Lima [...]

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Builders Insurance Company Announces 2006 Scholarship Awards

Builders Insurance Company, one of Nevada’s two largest workers’ comp insurance providers, and Nevada’s largest construction industry workers’ comp provider, announced 18 2006 Scholarship Awards to children of employees at participating member companies at their just-completed Appreciation Luncheon for insureds. Since the program’s inception in 2000, Builders Insurance has awarded $138,000 in scholarships.
More than 1,100 [...]

Friday, July 14th, 2006