Three young Indian cricketers arrived here Monday to undergo an intense six-week coaching stint under the Border-Gavaskar Scholarship at the Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence (CBCE).
Mumbai’s Kshemal Vaingankar, a right-arm pace bowler, Karnataka’s Gaurav Dhiman, a right-hand opener, and Vadodara wicket keeper Pinal Shah have been picked by an Indian cricket board committee headed by [...]

More than 300 students from India will receive scholarships from the EU so they can do their Masters degrees in European universities during the 2006-2007 school year, Indo-Asian agency reports. The scholarships are given by the Erasmus program.
The list of 319 students was announced officially yesterday.
More than 100 Indian students who have already graduated gathered [...]

A number of outstanding Arakanese students were awarded stipends and scholarships by the Rakhine Thahaya Athin, an association of Arakanese in Rangoon, for the 2006-07 educational year, said a report of the Rakhine Thahaya Athin.
The award ceremony was held at the International Business Center in Rangoon on 13 June, 2006.
25 Arakanese students were awarded the [...]

Woodland Elks Lodge No. 1299 has announced this year’s scholarship winners. The scholarship chairman, Don Campbell, and his committee spent hours working with area high schools and going over each application. Each recipient received a $1,000 scholarship at an awards ceremony held by the Elks on June 11.
Following are short biographies of the winners.
Pioneer High [...]

The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith has announced the names of students who will receive Scholarships of Prestige for the fall 2006 semester, according to Marion Dunagan, vice chancellor for enrollment management.
Local students receiving Scholarships of Prestige for Fall 2006 include:
• Laura A. Scott of Bentonville, has received an engineering scholarship. She is the [...]

Napa Elks Lodge #832, at 2840 Soscol Ave., recently awarded its annual new and recurring student scholarships — totaling $12,000 to 14 students according to Elks Club spokesman Joe Wightman.
Those students receiving new scholarships were:
Hattie Borg, of Vintage High, is going to Santa Rosa Jr. College; Alia D. Carter of St. Helena High is going [...]

UND’s newly established Sioux Scholarship Endowment faced criticism of being an attempt to buy Sioux tribal support of the Fighting Sioux nickname, but university president Charles Kupchella said this is not true.
The UND Foundation announced the establishment of the $1 million-plus endowment from anonymous donors in early May, shortly after UND lost its second and [...]

Alvis and Ruth Calame seemed to be ordinary, hard-working people, but their generosity was anything but ordinary. Born in 1911 in Wortham, Alvis Calame graduated from Wortham High School and attended Westminster College in Tehuacana. In 1935, he married Ruth Watson from the Stewards Mill area. After she graduated from Wortham High School, Ruth attended [...]

State Rep. Kathy Ryg (D-Vernon Hills) hosted a reception recently for winners of the General Assembly Legislative College Scholarship in the 59th District.
Scholarship awards were based on financial need as determined in cooperation with the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, academic achievement, community service, extracurricular activities and students’ educational goals. The scholarships provide full tuition [...]

Young men from Union-Endicott, Binghamton and Tioga Central high schools are this year’s recipients of scholarships offered by the Al Hazzard Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
The one-time awards, each for $250, are given to graduating high school seniors who plan to pursue studies in environmental sciences at accredited institutions.
The winners:
Christian Fedczuk, Binghamton High School. Christian, winner [...]