Entries from contestants in the Miss Dogwood Scholarship Pageant are now being accepted. The pageant will be held at 3 p.m. March 29 at the Siloam Springs High School Performing Arts Auditorium.
The pageant is an official preliminary to the Miss Arkansas, Miss Arkansas’ Outstanding Teen and the Miss Arkansas Teen Beauty pageants. The Dogwood winners [...]

There are more than $2 million in scholarship and internship opportunities for Hispanic college students pursuing degrees in math, science, engineering or technology through Advancing Hispanic Excellence in Technology, Engineering, Math and Science (AHETEMS), the educational foundation of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).
Deadlines to apply range from Feb. 1 to April 1, although [...]

The application deadline for music student scholarships from the Battle Creek Morning Musical Club is Feb. 1. The club is offering summer camp scholarships of up to $400 as well as the Gif and Connie Richards scholarship in the amount of $500.
The summer music camp awards are for students in seventh through 12th grades who [...]

Pinnacle Cos. is donating $160,000 to the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine scholarship drive.
The donation will fund one full scholarship, which includes tuition and living expenses for four years.
UCF so far has received funding for 22 scholarships, with a goal of bringing in 40 totaling $6.4 million to fund education costs for its [...]

Gov. Martin O’Malley wants to increase by $150,000 a state scholarship fund for veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to help eliminate a waiting list.
The Maryland Higher Education Commission launched the $500,000 fund last February to assist veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq enroll in undergraduate programs at state colleges and [...]

Ten outstanding students pursuing careers in the beef industry have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship provided by the CME Group and the National Cattlemen’s Foundation. The CME Group has sponsored this scholarship program for 18 years.
Each scholarship winner wrote a 750-word essay that identified key issues confronting the beef industry, and suggested [...]

Plainfield Central High School senior Kristina Knowski won a $20,000 scholarship to attend the Academy of Art in Chicago.
Knowski, 18, was accepted to the Academy of Art earlier this year, but she had to “audition” — by demonstrating her artistic abilities — to receive the full-year scholarship.
On Sept. 29, Knowski and about 150 other [...]

UND officials Wednesday announced a new scholarship available this fall for entering freshmen who scored 24 or higher on the ACT.
That’s the average score for admitted students under the school’s stricter admissions standards implemented two years ago.
The scholarship will give $1,000 per year to students who meet ACT and other requirements, including:
– At least a [...]

It’s been 10 years since SilkAir flight MI 185 crashed in Palembang on December 19, on its route from Jakarta to Singapore.
All 104 passengers and crew members died. However, the memory of one victim – Kathryn Worth – lives on, through a scholarship set up by her husband.
Kathryn loved to travel; she was equally at [...]

The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust has donated $25,000 to Winston-Salem State University to establish a scholarship in the name of WSSU Board of Trustees chair Nigel Alston and his wife, Sarah.
The gift recognizes Alston’s long-standing involvement with the Kate B. Reynolds Poor and Needy Division’s advisory board, according to an announcement from the [...]