Two students who want to be nurses have received University Hospital Minority Scholarships to pursue their chosen profession: Traci Irving of Pleasant Ridge and Amber Nixon of Westwood, both 18.
Irving was awarded a $40,000 scholarship over four years, funded by the hospital.
A graduate in the 91st percentile of her class at Shroder Paideia Academy, Irving [...]
Mayor Sheila Dixon joined representatives from Hilton Hotels Corporation, the National Academy Foundation, CollegeBound Foundation and the Baltimore Hotel Corporation, at Digital Harbor High School in Federal hill to announce that the Hilton Hotels Corporation has established the Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel Scholarship Fund.
Executives from Hilton Hotels Corporation, which will operate and manage [...]
THE Simon Vengai Muzenda Scholarship Foundation, which seeks to assist underprivileged students around the country to pursue their education, was launched in Harare yesterday.
The scholarship is in memory of the late Vice-President Simon Muzenda, who founded it before his death in September 2003.
A board of trustees will run the foundation which seeks to help over [...]
Brenau University has plans to offer two full scholarships each year to “deserving students from Zimbabwe” in a stepped-up program to expand the international scope of the Brenau campus and, in turn, hopefully make life better in that destitute African country.
The catalyst for all this is Anne Nixon, a Gainesville woman whose family adopted, “in [...]
“Identities are the names we give to the different ways we are positioned by, and position ourselves within, the narratives of the past.” Stuart Hall
Throughout the world arbitrary racial notions are used to define who is ‘”black” and who is “white” but the lines become blurred with people of mixed racial heritage. Joy [...]
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The family of Chester Smith Sr. has announce3d that applications for a scholarship to be given to a 2007 Yerington High School graduating senior in the name of Chester Smith Sr. are now being accepted.
Applications were available as of April 3, 2007 at the YHS Counselor’s office and at the Mason Valley News office at [...]
Glitz, glamour and great food made the annual Father Gilbert J. Burke Easter Ball at Heinz Field on Saturday a complete success for the Alumni Council Endowed Scholarship fund at St. Vincent College. Proceeds from the event enabled volunteers to award their first scholarship to Joseph Giacobbi in the amount of $2,500.
A bidding war broke [...]
More than 5,200 students at Kansas State University are academic scholarship recipients for the 2006-2007 school year. Students are listed by their hometown.
Butler County
Andover: Austin Garrett Delimont, $1,460 Barbe Family Scholarship; Megan Ann Enns, $525 A. Sidney McIntire Memorial Scholarship and $725 Richard L. Clarke Scholarship; Bradley Warren Fouse, $240 G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship and [...]
John Grisham tackles nonfiction for the first time with The Innocent Man, a true tale about murder and injustice in a small town (that reads like one of his own bestselling novels). The Innocent Man chronicles the story of Ron Williamson, how he was arrested and charged with a crime he did not commit, [...]