The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan, has awarded a $600,000 challenge grant to Mount Saint Mary College to help fund construction of its new Mathematics, Science & Technology Center and the expansion and renovation of its nursing laboratories.
In order to meet the challenge and receive the grant, the college must raise just over $2.2 million [...]

Two New Scholarships Among AAJA’s 2006 Programs
The Asian American Journalists Association is awarding the largest amount of student scholarships in its history.
“We are grateful that these major media companies and supporters recognize the need to diversify newsrooms by encouraging young people to become journalists,” said AAJA executive director Rene Astudillo. “By increasing the number of [...]

The Memorial Gifts Committee of First Congregational Church, Sheboygan, is accepting applications for the Mary Lou French Memorial Scholarship. Grants ranging from $500 to $3,000 will be given to nontraditional students (ages 25 or over) who plan to enter a field of study that serves women and children. The applicants must demonstrate financial need, live [...]

Travis Credit Union, based in Vacaville, has announced it is increasing its Mary Keith Duff Memorial Scholarship Fund.
This year, as part of a commitment to serve the community, Travis Credit Union’s board of directors has raised the number of $1,000 scholarship awards from eight to 15. The credit union also revised its application so that [...]

A scholarship in the amount of $1,200 will be given to a graduating senior from any Clinton County school or the Jersey Shore Area School District. Rich Ramm Memorial Scholarship is also available for present full-time college students. The student must be entered in or have been accepted into an accredited program in the field [...]

The Anchorage Symphony will award the Mary and Lucian Cassetta Memorial Scholarship for $1,000 to a high school senior who displays musical talent and a commitment to advanced musical studies. The competition is open to instrumentalists and vocalist. For information, call 274-8668.

The McCarrey Region/Business and Professional Women are offering a scholarship to a woman in transition to provide a special opportunity for further education.
Applicants for this award must be 21 years or older and not a recent high school graduate, but a woman who is modifying her life to include further education leading to a new [...]

With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. “Stunning” (Los Angeles [...]

Many Teche Area students who graduate this spring are looking for scholarship money to attend college in August.
Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation, a state organization, is offering a scholarship program and will be accepting applications for 20 college scholarships, worth $2,000, to be awarded in a random drawing at the cooperative annual membership meeting June [...]

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.