Today Amcore Bank dished out 250-thousand dollars to help fund a program aimed at expanding the Rockford campus.
The 58-thousand square foot expansion among other things, will include a new pharmacy program, a renovated auditorium, and a new library.

Mr. Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, today announced the winners of the 2007 Science Foundation Ireland/Dell Young Women in Engineering Scholarship Awards. The award aims to encourage more female students into engineering as an undergraduate degree and future career.
The ten winners received their prizes from the Minister at a ceremony in [...]

The measure would enable more seniors to continue living in their own homes by allowing caregivers who aren’t related to them to apply for aid under the Pennsylvania Family Caregiver Support Program, said Rep. Phyllis Mundy, D-Kingston, the bill sponsor.
Ms. Mundy is chairwoman of the House Aging and Older Adult Services Committee.
In existence since 1990, [...]

With college costs continuing to rise, parents and students are increasingly turning to private lenders to cover the cost of tuition.
From 1995 to 2006, the amount of money borrowed from private lenders to pay for college rose from $1.3 billion to $17.3 billion, according to MSN Money columnist Liz Pulliam Weston. Why should this concern [...]

The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College has been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to help more students become teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the university’s School of Education a $2.2 million five-year “Transition to Teaching” grant.
The grant is designed to implement a fast-track alternative teaching certificate program for recent college [...]

The community of Ralls continues to honor fallen soldier Sergeant Randell Olguin. At Friday’s football game, volunteers passed out red, white, and blue ribbons in memory of Olguin.
They also painted a giant ribbon in the middle of the field, and volunteers collected donations for a scholarship fund in Olguin’s name.

A $6.5 million gift from a retired business executive in Florida will allow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to create scholarships for science and engineering students.
Robert Weissman learned about the school through a column in the New York Times written by Thomas Friedman. The best selling author had previously written about the school’s president, Shirley Ann [...]

The University of Georgia Arch Foundation has established a scholarship fund to help UGA students study in other countries in honor of university President Michael Adams and his wife, Mary, both strong proponents of international education.
The foundation created the fund in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of Michael Adams appointment as UGA president.

Two veteran San Antonio journalists are the namesakes for a new Trinity University scholarship fund, part of the university’s $200 million capital campaign.
The Kemper Diehl and James McCrory Scholarship Endowment fund honors the late political reporters, both of whom worked for the San Antonio Express-News and the defunct San Antonio Light. The fund will [...]

A new college scholarship for Missouri students in financial need has attracted more participants than expected, meaning some students will get less money than planned.
The Access Missouri scholarship was created by lawmakers this year to replace two financial needs scholarships. The state began sending out the first scholarship checks under the new program in the [...]

Marisol and Sandra Trevino are two newer recipients of the Viva Quad Cities scholarship award.
Marisol works for AT&T as a customer consultant. Sandra works for AmeriCorp, a company that provides free non-criminal, legal assistance for low-income families.
Both girls want to further their education. Marisol already has a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and [...]

Stacy Maciuk, a 24-year-old who went through Tennessee’s foster care system, lobbied the state’s General Assembly as a college student in support of a foster child tuition grant program.
The Nashville resident said her argument to lawmakers was simple: Invest in these youths now or pay for them later to be in prison, on welfare or [...]