The Joe Lurie Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Fellowship was launched at the UC Berkeley International House’s 19th Annual Celebration & Awards Gala Thursday.
The fund aims at providing an I-House room and board award to an entering first year returned Peace Corps doctoral student at UC Berkeley. The UC Berkeley Graduate Division will match this annually [...]

Established in 1997 through the generous gift of Robert and Colleen Haas, the Haas Scholars Program creates opportunities for academically talented, financial-aid-eligible undergraduates IN ALL MAJORS to engage in a sustained research, field-study or creative project in the summer before and during their senior (i.e., final) year at UC Berkeley.
Each year, twenty Haas Scholars–selected [...]

The Amber Pizzo Memorial Scholarship is awarded to graduating Governor Livingston High School students who plan to pursue a career in early childhood education.
The Amber Pizzo Memorial Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to the memory of Amber Pizzo, a member of the GLHS Class of 1996. The Fund has been established to assist [...]

The Embassy of the United States in Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce that Zul-Fakhri bin Maidy has been selected to receive the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for 2007.
Zul-Fakhri – the fourth Fulbright Scholar from Brunei to pursue graduate education in the US since the reactivation of the programme in 2004 – will be leaving at [...]

UCB, Inc. announced today the national roll out of the 2007 Crohn’s Scholarship Program, which will award 30, one-time scholarships of up to $10,000 to people diagnosed with Crohn’s disease who demonstrate academic ambition and who are reaching beyond the boundaries of their condition. The program is an expansion of UCB’s pilot scholarship program in [...]

HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a leader in advanced IT Systems Integration, will once again team up with the Hagerstown Suns to provide area high school students whose parents have served overseas in the armed forces the opportunity to apply for the “Son or Daughter of a Serviceman Overseas Scholarship Fund.”
As part of the Suns’ “Serviceman Overseas” [...]

Clarkson University Army ROTC Cadet William C. Toft of Berkeley Heights, N.J., is the recipient of this year’s New York City Post Society of Military Engineers Scholarship. Toft was presented with a certificate and a $1,000 scholarship check during a recent on-campus ceremony.
Toft, a junior at Clarkson majoring in environmental engineering, joined the Army Reserve [...]

The University of Kentucky was listed among the nation’s top 20 public research universities in a new national ranking based on faculty scholarly output.
UK was tied for 19th among public universities and tied for 41st among all universities in a rating of faculty scholarly activity in almost 7,300 doctoral programs nationwide.
Two UK departments were ranked [...]

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 [...]

Concerned by last summer’s Hezbollah missile attacks that threatened archaeology students in northern Israel, the University of California-Berkeley has suspended courses in countries subject to a U.S. State Department travel warning. Besides Israel, the list includes Indonesia and the Philippines.
The new policy threatens to end UC-Berkeley’s 21-year presence at Tel Dor, the site of an [...]