Karmichael Hunt playing for the Brisbane Lions?
The AFL would like to have seen that.
As unlikely as it sounds, it wasn’t that long ago that the talented Hunt had to choose between rugby league and AFL as he rose through the schoolboy ranks.
History shows Hunt went on to explode onto the international rugby league scene.

More than 2,200 winners of Merit Scholarship awards financed by colleges and universities were announced by National Merit Scholarship Corp. Officials of each sponsor college selected scholarship winners from among finalists in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution.

Rasesh Thakkar, senior managing director of the Tavistock Group, and Michael Minton, managing shareholder for Dean Mead, became the first to donate to the University of Central Florida College of Medicine’s scholarship fund.
As previously reported in OBJ, Deborah German, dean of the UCF College of Medicine, is on a fundraising mission to raise $6.4 [...]

President Yahya Jammeh, in his agenda to educate the Gambian child to the highest level has tasked a high level committee to spearhead and organise an annual scholarship pageant for Gambian female students, according to a press release issued by the Department of State for Communications and Information Technology.
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Friday it would give up to $2.5 million to fund scholarships for minorities and “socially disadvantaged” youth.
The Oklahoma City-based natural gas drilling company is putting up $1.25 million, and will give another $1.25 million if the Dallas-Fort Worth communities match its initial donation.
Chesapeake (NYSE: CHK) has chosen The Dallas [...]

A Trent University student has won a US$14,000 scholarship to study lynx in Ontario.
Megan Hornseth will use the Wildlife Conservation Society scholarship to cover her costs as she traps and collars lynx with global positioning system hardware near Thunder Bay.
The Wildlife Conservation Society is a U.S.-based group that saves wildlife and wildlands through science, international [...]

A scholarship program to assist African-American students at Ball State University has been established by Ball State alumni.
The Aaron B. and LaVon S. Floyd and Dr. Levan R. Scott Scholarship was created with a $50,000 gift from the Floyd family. The scholarship will provide financial assistance to incoming full-time students, with a preference for African-Americans [...]

The Marshall University Foundation Inc. has established a scholarship to honor Ruth Flowers Thornton, a two-time Marshall graduate and former high school and junior high school teacher in Cabell and Wayne counties whose teaching career spanned 33 years.
The Ruth Flowers Thornton Scholarship will be awarded each year to a West Virginia resident who is a [...]

Digicel, sponsors of West Indies cricket, in collaboration with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on Thursday launched the Digicel Cricket Scholarship, which will give young West Indian cricketers the opportunity of playing cricket in England and other major cricketing nations, according to a release from Digicel.
Windies fast bowler Jerome Taylor is to be the [...]

The dreaded Q&A that lingers at the conclusion of any study abroad program is the price one must pay for enjoying a four-month sojourn in an exotic location.
Much like entering through customs, I’ll have to pass rigorous conversations that will test my patience and resolve before I’ll be allowed to return to my common place [...]

In a historic move to support the international education of America’s college students, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1469, the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act.
The legislation, introduced by Reps. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record) (D - Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (news, bio, voting record) (R - Fla.), calls [...]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo urged Congress to step up supervision of private education lending and said he is widening his investigation of the $85 billion-a-year industry to examine loan criteria.
Private lending is more subject to abuse because it isn’t covered by anti kickback rules in government loan programs, Cuomo told the Senate’s banking [...]