Engineers from New Jersey American Water shared their expertise with aspiring seventh and eighth grade engineers from across the state at the National Engineering Week Future Cities Competition, held on Saturday, January 17, on the Busch Campus at Rutgers University.
“Water and the Economy” is the focus of this year’s Future Cities Competition. The students, who [...]

Sallie Mae Senior Vice President Barry Goulding today testified at the Senate Banking Committee hearing, ‘Paying for College: The Role of Private Student Lending’ to demonstrate how Sallie Mae serves students and parents in the private education loan market.
Goulding emphasized Sallie Mae’s ‘1-2-3 approach’ to paying for college: 1) after tapping personal financial resources such [...]

Capella University (www.capella.edu), an accredited online university with more than 16,000 students, has released its latest podcast, which features an interview with PhD student Generosa Lopez-Molina, who is the recipient of the university’s fifth-annual League for Innovation doctoral scholarship worth $50,000. Part of the “Inside Online Education” podcast series, this installment highlights several of Lopez-Molina’s [...]

Burns & Levinson LLP today announced the launch of the Second Annual “Power of an Idea” (TM) scholarship contest, a creative competition that is expected to draw scores of student applicants from Boston public high schools.
Under competition rules, Boston public high school students in grades 9 through 12 are eligible to compete for the chance [...]

Capella University (www.capella.edu), an accredited online university and a leader in online education, has released its latest podcast, which features an interview with Robin Bundy, a former sewage plant laborer who was awarded a $15,000 Women in Technology scholarship from the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT). Bundy received her bachelor’s degree in IT [...]

Thoughts of on-campus residences, essays and mid-terms may still be years away, but for four young Canadians their post-secondary education got a significant boost today as USC Education
Savings Plan Inc. (USCI) announced the winners of its 2006 National RESPScholarship Contest.
The annual contest, now in its 15th year, provides families across Canadaa [...]

AOL today announced the launch of an annual award designed to support the advancement of minority and women business owners. The scholarship is designed to provide AOL’s diverse business partners the opportunity to attend leadership development programs aimed at minority- and women-owned businesses. AOL also announced the inaugural recipient of the award — Lisa Harrison [...]

Creating a growing business is a slow, sometimes difficult, process. So, a local organization annually helps some female entrepreneurs get over some bumps in the road to success.
The Women Business Owners Network of Cary (WBON) has offered two $2,000 scholarships each year for the past five years to motivate women to take their businesses to [...]

Acordia, Inc., America’s largest bank-affiliated insurance brokerage and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), has announced the recipients of the eighth annual Acordia Scholarship Program — designed for the dependants of Acordia team members who best exemplify the academic, community service and leadership qualities the organization admires and wishes to foster.
The winners of [...]

Capella University, an accredited online university that is a leader in online education, has released its latest podcast, featuring an interview with Marine Corporal Wesam Mahmoud about his experiences serving in the military while earning an MBA online. Part of the “Inside Online Education” podcast series, this installment discusses Corporal Mahmoud’s work as an Arabic [...]