The Horner Study Abroad Scholarship Fund will provide scholarships based on academic merit and financial need. The scholarships, which may be awarded to undergraduate or graduate students, will be open to students studying in any academic discipline at KU. Initially, there will be an emphasis on scholarships for the study abroad activities of the KU […]
BANGKOK: Like many young Thais, Issariya Virajsilp knew she had to leave Thailand if she wanted to learn fashion. To study locally meant becoming essentially a dressmaker, or even worse, a kind of photocopier, reproducing someone else’s commercial ideas.
Unlike most of her friends, she could take flight, and in 2000 she headed to the Parsons […]
The Knudson Churchill Scholarship is available to print journalism and automotive technology students. You must be pursuing a post-secondary education in one of these fields, be at least 17 years of age, and demonstrate superior quality in scholastic and practical endeavors to be eligible for this award. An essay and two letters of recommendation are […]
Melissa Golden and Kathryn Adams of Toledo, and Rebecca Bostwick-Terry and Kindra Freedom of Newport, spent January studying abroad through a special study program at Linfield College.
Golden, a senior majoring in history, is the daughter of James and Candace Golden of Toledo. She participates in German Club and Wildcat Productions, the Linfield television station. She […]
Thursday marked an important anniversary for the Boston family. It wasn’t a wedding date or a birth date. Rather, Feb. 22 marked the one-year anniversary of Jarrett Boston’s lost battle with cancer.
In 2002, when Jarrett was 13 years old, a black, strange-looking mole was discovered on his back. After the mole was diagnosed as a […]
Hollie Braband remembers when she made the decision to be a nurse. She was all of 5. She’ll shortly graduate from the University of Texas at Arlington and begin a career specializing in neonatal intensive-care nursing.
“I’ve always known I wanted to work with children,” Braband said.
Then there’s Jackline Opollo, originally of Kenya, a brilliant UT-Arlington […]
The Henderson County Education Foundation and the Vagabond School of Drama-Flat Rock Playhouse have formed a partnership to provide scholarships for Henderson County middle school students to attend FRP/YouTheatre educational classes.
This is the first FRP/YouTheatre scholarship program ever established for students and represents a commitment by the Education Foundation to provide scholarships to 30 middle […]
The Moraine Park Foundation at Moraine Park Technical College has created a new scholarship opportunity for this spring’s area high school graduates.
A $400 general scholarship will be awarded to a high school senior who plans to attend MPTC in fall 2007-08, from each of the 27 high schools within the Moraine Park District.
The application deadline […]
Friday is the new deadline for applications for the Green Bay Packers Scholarship to be awarded to Brown County high school seniors who will graduate this year and plan to enroll in a two-year technical or apprenticeship trades program at a technical college in Wisconsin.
Scholarships vary in amount, and are awarded on the basis of […]
Leon County Commissioner Ed DePuy has matched all gifts made in the memory of his late wife, Linda DePuy, to the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation for a scholarship endowment. Linda DePuy died last year.
He matched $20,000 in gifts for the endowment. The scholarships will go to hospital employees who are seeking degrees in nursing. DePuy […]
ORANGEBURG — South Carolina State University alumni, friends and supporters gathered Saturday evening for the 2007 Scholarship Gala and Tribute to raise resources to support the university’s general scholarship fund.
The formal event in the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center on the S.C. State campus was followed by a concert by The Original Manhattans, featuring Gerald Alston and […]
Tickets are now available for the Duneland Education Foundation $10,000 Scholarship Raffle. Tickets cost $25 each and can be purchased by those 18 years and older. The beneficiary, however, may be of any age.
Tickets will be sold until 12:00 p.m. (Noon) on April 9, 2007 or until all 800 tickets are sold.
The raffle drawing will […]