Itawamba Community College is getting a one-point-nine (M) million dollar federal grant to to train workers for the health care industry.
U-S Senator Trent Lott announced the grant this week.
Itawamba competed with 429 applicants to win one of 72 grants awarded nationwide.
The state Department of Employment Security projects that northeast Mississippi will need about one-thousand more [...]
A West Michigan school district is helping students Gear Up for college by helping them through the critical years of middle school.
Bangor has received its second Gear Up grant from Western Michigan University and the U.S. Department of Education. It also received one in 2000.
Bangor is using the money for additional counselors at its middle [...]
Edison State Community College received a $2 million job training grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The grant will be used to develop a new regional training network for advanced manufacturing training for current and dislocated workers in western Ohio.
Edison, located in Piqua, was one of 72 community colleges in 34 states awarded [...]
Northeastern University College of Business Administration (CBA) today announced that Professor Rosanna Garcia has received a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a large-scale software development project to help analysts craft greenhouse gas reduction policies in the transportation industry. Under the $1.9 million NSF grant, Professor Garcia will collaborate with the University [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding the College of Eastern Utah’s San Juan campus $1.2 million for nursing education.
The grant will mean that instead of enrolling the typical 60 licensed practical-nurse and certified nurse-assistant students over the next three years, the school will enroll 495 students in both nursing [...]
A $15,000 grant to a Macon State College program will be used to promote safer driving among college students.
The grant, from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, was awarded to the Macon State Student Life Wellness Program and will focus on the importance of wearing a seat belt and driving sober, according to a news [...]
The organizers of Massachusetts College Goal Sunday, a free-to-the-public, charitable effort to bring families of college-bound students together with financial aid professionals from colleges and universities across Massachusetts, today released statistics based on more than 500 responses from the 2006 program attendees. The responses indicate there is still a significant gap to close in [...]
Luzerne County Community College President Patricia Donohue posed for more than a minute Tuesday as she accepted a $50,000 novelty check. It’s the first of three such checks the school will get annually to help LCCC hire more nursing school teachers and to help alleviate a state shortage of nurses.
“You nurses think you have to [...]
As an undergraduate student at Smith College, Catherine Dignam got her first taste of the thrill of conducting scientific research.
She participated in two projects, including one in which she helped study samples of the varnish covering an African mask and determined that the wax was original.
“I really [...]
Students in the Ogden School District will get a boost on their road to college, courtesy of a $1.1 million federal grant.
Weber State University teamed up with the district to gain the Federal TRIO Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant will fund a program called Talent Search, which is designed to motivate and [...]