Archive for August, 2006

NASA gives $1.75M scholarship grant

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers has received a $1.75 million grant from NASA for its Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology Program.
Students pursuing undergraduate degrees in engineering, math, science or technology will be eligible for up to $10,000 in scholarships. The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers will join the Hispanic College Fund and the [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

PMMI ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The PMMI PACK EXPO Scholarship program will financially support students at packaging schools throughout the United States and Canada. One-hundred percent of funds raised will go directly to the students, and a goal of $100,000 has been set to be raised through the Institute’s Education and Training Foundation, according to a news release.
“PMMI is committed [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

AOL Launches Annual Scholarship Program to Support Women and Minority Business Owners

AOL today announced the launch of an annual award designed to support the advancement of minority and women business owners. The scholarship is designed to provide AOL’s diverse business partners the opportunity to attend leadership development programs aimed at minority- and women-owned businesses. AOL also announced the inaugural recipient of the award — Lisa Harrison [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

FreeScholarshipGuide.com Announces $5,000 Scholarship Winner - Teresa Belosi from St. Louis, MO.

Innovation Ads, Inc., owner of http://www.freescholarshipguide.com/, has announced that Teresa Belosi from St. Louis, Missouri has won the June 25, 2006 drawing for the FreeScholarshipGuide.com $5,000 Semi-Annual Scholarship Contest.
On July 11, 2006, Teresa Belosi was chosen by random as the $5,000 winner out of more than 400,000 applicants that registered over the past 6 months. [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

WorldNow Enrolls ClassesUSA: Online Higher-Education Portal Now Provides Content and Resources to WorldNow’s National Network of Local Television Station Web Sites

Partnership Enables More Than 13 Million Unique Visitors to Learn More About Educational Opportunities
ClassesUSA®, an Experian company, and WorldNow’s Local Media Network (LMN) today announced a new advertising and content partnership. Users on more than 100 local station Web sites now have access to ClassesUSA’s vast higher-education information while providing a new revenue stream for [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

KEEP Selects Scholarship Recipients

The Kentucky Equine Education Project selected the winners of its new academic scholarships during a recent board meeting. Each winner will be awarded $1,000 toward their academic studies.
The winners are as follows: Christina Campbell and Ashlee Frisby, Midway College; Rebecca Lloyd, University of Kentucky; Kim French, University of Louisville; and David Hayden, Murray State University.

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Popular scholarship

Theoretical language is needed for scholarly understanding of everyday life, write Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham
IN her opinion piece “Left out of debate by convoluted speaking”, published in The Australian on July 28, Emma Dawson expressed concern at the theoretical language (or gobbledygook, as she called it) employed in a call for papers for the [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

CLE Leaders Law.com and LexisNexis Announce Alliance to Expand Online Continuing Legal Education

ALM’s Law.com® and LexisNexis, a leading provider of information and services solutions, today announced an alliance that will expand and enhance online continuing legal education options for attorneys.
Under the agreement, the Law.com CLE Center will become the exclusive source for LexisNexis Mealey’s(TM) online CLE courses, providing lawyers with a single Web destination that delivers a [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

University of Texas secures broadcasting scholarship

The University of Texas is one of 10 schools in the country selected to receive an inaugural scholarship from the National Association of Broadcasters.
The association’s nonprofit education foundation will issue the awards to allow financially disadvantaged students to complete their undergraduate degree and pursue a career in broadcasting. The scholarships apply for a student’s [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Chartered Financial Analysts Society of New Mexico scholarship

The Chartered Financial Analysts Society of New Mexico will award five scholarships to the Chartered Financial Analyst Program, a self-study program that prepares financial professionals to seek their CFA credentials.
Applicants for the scholarship must belong to the CFA Society of New Mexico or be a fourth-year graduate student at a college or university within [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Annual management scholarship open to applicants

Annual management scholarship open to applicants
Applications for an annual management training scholarship, established last year in memory of the seven Crop & Food Research staff killed in an air accident in June 2003, are now being sought. The scholarship allows the successful applicant to attend the NZIM course, ESCO – The Discovery.
Crop & Food Research [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Scholarship Fund Helps Women-Owned Start-Ups

Creating a growing business is a slow, sometimes difficult, process. So, a local organization annually helps some female entrepreneurs get over some bumps in the road to success.
The Women Business Owners Network of Cary (WBON) has offered two $2,000 scholarships each year for the past five years to motivate women to take their businesses to [...]

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006