Archive for April, 2007

Lioness club offers scholarship

The Wickenburg Lioness Club is now accepting applications for its continuing education scholarship for college students who are residents of Wickenburg and the surrounding area. The scholarship is in the amount of $700 and is awarded to students who have earned at least 40 hours of college credits.
Applications are available at the Wickenburg Chamber of [...]

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Mitio Announces New Scholarship Program

The Medical Interpreting and Translating Institute Online (Mitio), an industry leader in online delivery of medical interpreting and translating education, today announced the launch of it’s new scholarship program available to students who are working in facilities with predominantly Hispanic patients.
The program consist of three courses that cover the interpreters professional code of ethics, interpreting [...]

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Farm Credit Offers Scholarship Campaign

Farm Credit Services of Mid-America (FCS) - an $11 billion ag lending cooperative serving farmers and rural America in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee - re-affirmed its commitment to educational success by making nearly $100,000 in scholarships available to students in agricultural and business programs at universities throughout the cooperative’s four-state territory. In [...]

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Waynesburg Area Chamber of Commerce Scholarship deadline approaching

Waynesburg Area Chamber of Commerce is reminding area high school seniors that the deadline to apply for the $2,500 annual chamber scholarship is 4 p.m. April 18.
This is the 17th year the chamber has awarded the scholarship. The scholarship program is open to any Greene County student who will be a graduating senior in 2007.
The [...]

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Fulbright Scholarship for cancer researcher

MONASH University student Danny Gelman will further his research into cancer after receiving the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship.
Currently two years into his PhD at Monash, Gelman, a graduate of Mount Scopus College, is one of 22 academics to receive the scholarship, which entitles him to 12 months of paid study and research in America.
Gelman, who will [...]

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

New scholarship program is proposed

JEFFERSON CITY — A state audit finds that students attending private colleges are eight times more likely to receive money under one state financial-need-based scholarship program than those at public colleges.
That’s largely because the Gallagher scholarship considers tuition cost in determining a student’s financial need, and private four-year colleges tend to cost much more than [...]

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Rock Hall launches music scholarship program

Seniors in public high schools who want to study music or the music business in college are eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation’s new scholarship program.
A total of $50,000 in scholarships will be awarded, with $25,000 earmarked for students in Cleveland, home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and [...]

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Inner-City Scholarship Fund celebrated at annual dinner

The Catholic Schools Foundation held its 17th Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Dinner celebration at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on March 28. Troy Brown, wide receiver for the New England Patriots and trustee of the Catholic Schools Foundation was the evening’s featured speaker.
The dinner is held annually to celebrate and support the Inner-City Scholarship Fund [...]

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Missouri Farmers Union announces Gary Wiggins Scholarship recip

Laura Ketsenburg of Monroe City and Nathan Vickers of El Dorado Springs were awarded the Gary Wiggins Memorial Scholarship from Missouri Farmers Union at their 100th anniversary convention in West Plains recently.
“These students represent a bright future for Missouri rural communities and agriculture,” said MFU President Russ Kremer. “MFU is very proud to present these [...]

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Study abroad teaches, enhances, rewards

Summer school may not sound appealing at first, but what if it included traveling to a foreign country and learning about life in another culture? UTC makes that experience possible through a variety of study abroad opportunities.
Micah Gentry, a graduate student from Oliver, Ga., studied at the Sevilla Spanish School in Antigua, Guatemala for five [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Artist Fellowship application deadline is April 6

CARSON CITY-The deadline to apply for an Artist Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council is Friday, April 6.
Each year the Nevada Arts Council, through the Artist Fellowship program, encourages the pursuit of artistic excellence and provides financial support to Nevada artists of merit. Nine fellowships of $5,000 each are awarded annually with three each in [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

LearningPoint Awarded Idea Foundry Transformation Fellowship

LearningPoint, a provider of e-learning technology solutions, announced today that it has received a $175,000 Transformation Fellowship from Idea Foundry. The Fellowship consists of $100,000 in cash and $75,000 worth of consulting support. The award will be used to accelerate the launch of the company’s new rapid e-learning development solution called CollaborateTM.
Collaborate puts the [...]

Sunday, April 1st, 2007