Archive for December, 2006

Members Cooperative Credit Union offers scholarship

Members Cooperative Credit Union (MCCU) and the Minnesota Family Involvement Council (MNFIC) are now accepting scholarship applications from students planning to continue their education in the fall of 2007.
All MCCU members are eligible to apply for two $1,000 scholarships available to high school graduates. One $1,000 scholarship and two $500 scholarships for continuing education students [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Most AIIMS graduates head abroad for practice

Are there more AIIMS graduates practising in the US than in India? A recent study of AIIMS alumni over 40 years seems to indicate this.
More than half of all the students who passed out from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, from the time it was started in 1956 to 1997, [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Rise in US students abroad is good news—sort of

In what may be good news for the future of the United States ties with the rest of the world, the number of Americans studying abroad has more than doubled in the past decade, and is reaching a new record this year.
According to a just-released study by the Institute of International Education, a US [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Winner of $50,000 League for Innovation Scholarship Featured in Capella University’s Latest ‘Inside Online Education’ Podcast

Capella University (www.capella.edu), an accredited online university with more than 16,000 students, has released its latest podcast, which features an interview with PhD student Generosa Lopez-Molina, who is the recipient of the university’s fifth-annual League for Innovation doctoral scholarship worth $50,000. Part of the “Inside Online Education” podcast series, this installment highlights several of Lopez-Molina’s [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

S. Burlington family creates $1 million scholarship

IDX co-founder Robert Hoehl and his family have donated $1 million to establish a college scholarship fund to benefit dozens of children of Vermont veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Scholarship, underwritten by the Hoehl Family Foundation of South Burlington, will help pay for college-level education of [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Tarhe Lions Club of Lancaster 2007 Scholarship

The Tarhe Lions Club of Lancaster will offer its 2007 Scholarship to eligible Fairfield County residence attending an accredited college in the Ohio with a major in optometry, audiology or a related field of eye or diabetic research.
Funds for this scholarship come from the annual George Bowers Memorial Golf Scramble. All applications must be post [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Hoehl Foundation sets up scholarship for military children

About 60 children of Vermont veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will be eligible for a new college scholarship being underwritten by the family of a founder of the IDX software company.
Robert and Cynthia Hoehl and the Hoehl Family Foundation of South Burlington donated $1 million to fund Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Scholarship, [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Malaysian triathlete obtains scholarship in preparations for 2008 Olympics

Malaysian woman triathlete Kimbeley Yap has won a scholarship from the International Triathlon Union’s (ITU), thus moving one step closer towards the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing.
Yap was selected by ITU as one of only eight recipients in the world for the Beijing Games Scholarship Project, local newspaper The Star reported Thursday.
The scholarship, amounting [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

The Connecticut Sports Writers’ Alliance is inviting high school journalists to apply for the Bohdan Kolinsky Memorial Journalism Scholarship.

The scholarship honors the memory of Bohdan “Bo” Kolinsky, who was scholastic sports editor of the Hartford Courant when he died at 49 in 2003.
The scholarship provides an initial grant of $1,000 to a high school or prep school senior accepted by an accredited four-year college for studies leading to a career as a sports [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Myra scores a Zonta scholarship

St John paramedic Myra Waddell has been awarded the annual $1000 career development scholarship from Zonta.
The grant is intended to support mature local women aspiring towards a different career direction, or those who wish to increase their knowledge in their current chosen field of educational study or employment.

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Green Creek focus of new scholarship

Students who have ties to the Green Creek area now have a chance for financial assistance through a new scholarship set up just for them.
The Green Creek Community Center has created the Nell Fagan Scholarship, named after the long time educator at the Green Creek School.
The purpose of the Nell Fagan scholarship, says the community [...]

Friday, December 29th, 2006

PRESS ASSOCIATION OFFERS SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST

The New York Press Association (NYPA) Foundation has announced a First Amendment Essay Contest for 11th and 12th grade high school students in New York State, with a $10,000 college scholarship as first prize. Designed to foster knowledge and understanding of the First Amendment, the statewide competition has a Feb. 15 entry deadline.
The tiered-judging [...]

Thursday, December 28th, 2006