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 [...]

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 [...]

American Water, the largest water services provider in North America, today announced recipients of the 16th annual James V. LaFrankie Scholarship Awards. The awards were distributed across the nation to college-bound children of full-time American Water employees who demonstrate an interest in water-related industry occupational fields.
Out of 69 applicants, American Water chose seven high school [...]

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the launch of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals Fellowship Training Grant in Sleep Medicine for physician and research Fellows conducting original peer-review research in sleep medicine. Four $50,000 one-year grants will be awarded at the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic year to support promising research conducted by Fellows in accredited sleep training [...]

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 publicity for the Discovery Channel documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” has a disturbingly familiar ring. Over the past five years, we have been hearing this kind of thing on a schedule that is almost as regular as the network sweeps and the new fall programs.
First came the James Ossuary; then The DaVinci Code, [...]

UCB, Inc. announced today the national roll out of the 2007 Crohn’s Scholarship Program, which will award 30, one-time scholarships of up to $10,000 to people diagnosed with Crohn’s disease who demonstrate academic ambition and who are reaching beyond the boundaries of their condition. The program is an expansion of UCB’s pilot scholarship program in [...]

The 501(c)3 Glimpse Foundation has launched a new online store that consolidates the resources it offers to further cross-cultural understanding and to help prepare students and volunteers for their overseas experiences. The store is available here: http://store.glimpsefoundation.org
Among the new store’s many offerings are subscriptions to Glimpse Quarterly, the Foundation’s print publication, which features first-person narratives [...]

The Caribbean Hotel Foundation (CHF), the non-profit subsidiary of the Caribbean Hotel Association, announced on 26 January the beginning of its 2007/2008 Scholarship Program for Caribbean hospitality employees, educators, and students wishing to pursue studies or professional development courses related to the tourism industry.
In 2006, the CHF reached a record amount of US $144,500, which [...]

The Caribbean Hotel Foundation (CHF), the non-profit subsidiary of the Caribbean Hotel Association, announced today the beginning of its 2007/2008 Scholarship Program for Caribbean hospitality employees, educators, and students wishing to pursue studies or professional development courses related to the tourism industry. Application forms are now available at the CHF website www.caribbeanhotelfoundation.org, and from the [...]