The Brian LaViolette Scholarship Foundation will award the first annual Thomas J. Hudner Scholarship of Honor at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Air Academy.
Hudner, a Massachusetts native, earned a Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the Korean War. He risked his life to aid a fellow U.S. Navy pilot whose [...]
Acordia, Inc., America’s largest bank-affiliated insurance brokerage and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), has announced the recipients of the eighth annual Acordia Scholarship Program — designed for the dependants of Acordia team members who best exemplify the academic, community service and leadership qualities the organization admires and wishes to foster.
The winners of [...]
A city fast-food outlet employee has been awarded a major monetary award.
University student Erin Dushnicky was presented a McDonald’s Employee Scholarship, worth $10,000 over the next two years.
Dushnicky received the scholarship for her academic excellence and outstanding customer service. She’s worked at McDonald’s for two years, and is going into her second year of political [...]
The Employment Guide® (www.EmploymentGuide.com) is proud to announce the first 25 scholarship recipients from its scholarship fund, which is administered through the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation (AH&LEF) Annual Scholarship Grant Program. The Employment Guide made a three-year pledge of $75,000 to fund scholarships ranging from $500 to $2,000 each during the fall 2006 [...]
The first annual Charity Motorcycle Ride and Bike Show in memory of MaryAnn Tedesco was held Sunday afternoon, drawing dozens to Detail Unlimited to show their support for Tedesco’s scholarship fund.
Motorcyclists, friends, and biking enthusiasts from the area gathered to show their personal bikes, eat pasta and listen to music in the parking lot of [...]
The Public Service Department (JPA) is now offering a new scholarship, known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Scholarship, for those seeking to further their studies up to the Masters or Ph.D levels.
In a statement issued here Monday, the department said 10 such scholarships were on offer, five for masters studies and five for Ph.Ds, which [...]
Indonesia may become one of the preferred destinations for Malaysian students to pursue higher education abroad, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
He said Malaysian students, who could not get places in the local institutions of higher learning, could opt to study in the republic.
Indonesia could become a good choice not only for medicine [...]
Continuing a decades-old tradition at Colgate, six more graduates have been awarded grants to study or teach abroad during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Five alumni were tapped for French Government Teaching Assistantships in English, which are administered by the country’s Ministry of Education, while the sixth received a Fulbright award to study in Egypt.
The French Government [...]
Turkish Minister of Education Huseyin Celik said the Turkish government will send 1,000 students abroad in 2006 for Master’s and Ph.D programs.
Celik, at his press conference held in Van, declared that the government would send students abroad this year as required by the Law for Students to Be Sent Abroad for Education No: 1416.
The [...]
Oklahoma City University School of Law launched a study-abroad program this month with one of China’s most prestigious law schools.
An agreement between OCU and Nankai University School of Law in Tianjin, China, culminated one year of negotiations for a “Summer Institute for International Law,” which focuses on international and comparative law.
Four OCU law students are [...]