A private group led by several prominent UCLA alumni say they hope a new scholarship they’re bankrolling for black students will boost enrollment by African Americans.
The group is headed by L-A businessman Peter J. Taylor and leaders of UCLA’s Black Alumni Association.
They say they will make their first scholarship offers in the next few days [...]

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has donated $20,000 to the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University to support the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. The program provides advanced training in entrepreneurship and small business management to military personnel who are disabled as a result of their service during operations [...]

In recent years, the remarkable advances in medical imaging instruments have increased their use considerably for diagnostics as well as planning and follow-up of treatment. Emerging from the fields of radiology, medical physics and engineering, medical imaging no longer simply deals with the technology and interpretation of radiographic images. The limitless possibilities presented by [...]

It has been more than twenty years since desktop publishing reinvented design, and it’s clear that there is a growing need for designers and artists to learn programming skills to fill the widening gap between their ideas and the capability of their purchased software. This book is an introduction to the concepts of computer [...]

One of the nation’s elite strength and conditioning coaches presents a unique training program designed to help men achieve functional strength and muscular balance throughout their bodies
For decades, the conventional measure of an individual’s strength was the amount of weight he could bench press. Now, that measure is being challenged by expert trainers like [...]

Combine the rising costs with increased pressure on schools to offer the most accurate and complete loan option information to families and/or students, and it is no surprise that Senator Ted Kennedy’s Student Loan Sunshine Act, a bill that – if passed – will require all higher education institutions that accept federal funds to publicly [...]

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 [...]

The Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the United States offers one-year scholarships to U.S. undergraduates and graduates to study Chinese at the Mandarin at any of the approved Chinese language centers. A list of the centers is available online at www.tw.org/language/prgms.html.
Paper application forms are available at:
Center for Chinese [...]

I GREW UP in a place known for its crime and violence, and where the homicide rate is higher than the college attendance rate, announced Yien Kwan Saechao as she was being honored at a recent tea hosted by Karlynn van Digglen in Blackhawk.
It was at that point when Carol Lee Bishop, president of the [...]

Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) will honor 14 Hispanic students with scholarships during a Celebration of Achievement ceremony being held at Univision in Los Angeles, California.
The students are recipients of the HSF/NNA Community College Transfer Scholarship Program created to provide financial assistance to community college students of Hispanic heritage [...]