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The Medical Student Career Handbook

November 16th, 2008

This book contains a foreword by Steve Field, Regional Postgraduate Dean, West Midlands Deanery, Chair of the UK MMC Advisory Board; Chair of the UK MMC working Group for Career Management. Written by medical students, this book provides completely up-to-date information on the vast number of changes occurring in medical training. It is ideal [...]

Handbook of Denominations in the United States, 12th Edition

November 13th, 2008

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Teach For America Helps Close the Largest Achievement Gap in the Nation, Placing Teachers in Three Connecticut School Districts This Fall

June 15th, 2007

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG – News) today awarded $1 million to Teach For America’s Connecticut region. Teach For America is the national corps of top college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity. The grant, to be [...]

Motorola donates US $20,000 to create ACCP-Motorola Scholarship Fund

June 1st, 2007

Motorola, Inc. and the Motorola Foundation today announced a US $20,000 donation to the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police (ACCP) to create the ACCP/Motorola Scholarship Fund. The announcement was made at the ACCP’s Annual Banquet, part of the ACCP’s General Meeting and Conference held this year in Nassau, Bahamas.
The ACCP/Motorola Scholarship Program will [...]

First United Methodist Church Lighthouse Youth Center Scholarship 2007-2008

March 3rd, 2007

Applications for the First United Methodist Church Lighthouse Youth Center Scholarship are now available at Dover and New Philadelphia high schools or by going to the Lighthouse Youth Center Web site at www.npfirstumc.org and clicking on the Lighthouse logo.
Applicants must be a graduating senior from Dover or New Philadelphia High and enrolled in an accredited [...]

Eurasian community launches first-ever university scholarship

February 18th, 2007

The Eurasian Association is launching its first-ever university scholarship for the community’s promising young.
It aims to raise funds through a special book, which will showcase the life and times of one illustrious Eurasian, the late Dr Charles Paglar.
President S R Nathan remembers the late Dr Charles Paglar for paying a house call late at night [...]

Green family launches scholarship scheme

February 9th, 2007

A philanthropic family from Warwick has introduced a new scholarship for high school students looking for the chance to continue their education at universities overseas.
The Green Family Scholarships are a result of the collective generosity of Peter, Alexander and Andrew Green of Marshall’s Island.
As many as five $5,000 scholarships will be awarded annually and each [...]

India: AIIMS pass-outs join jobs abroad

December 27th, 2006

Study in India and work abroad appears to be the mantra for a majority of pass-outs from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
In a study on pass-outs from AIIMS since 1956 till 2003, the Media Studies Group has found that as many as 52.81 per cent of students are now working abroad. For [...]

Caltech Student Wins Marshall Scholarship

December 20th, 2006

As the California Institute of Technology’s first woman to win a Marshall Scholarship, Emma Schmidgall is making a little history, but it’s a place where she feels right at home. “I’ve been to Cambridge before,” she says. “It’s like something out of ‘Harry Potter.’”
Schmidgall’s Cambridge connection began last year, when she spent Michaelmas (i.e. fall) [...]

The new face of study abroad

December 14th, 2006

For Christina Hanna, it was a Toto moment.
Not long after starting a new semester of study last winter, the UW-Madison student looked outside and saw monkeys.
“The first morning, we woke up and went out on the porch and there were water buffalo and warthogs right outside the door. And monkeys in the trees,” said Hanna, [...]