FREEPORT — About 300 eighth-graders typically leave Freeport Intermediate School each year to enter Brazosport High School as freshmen.
When it’s time for the students to graduate, the number of seniors walking across the stage drops to about 200, sometimes slightly less.
Brazosport High Principal Gary Jones gave the statistics before speaking about goals of the school’s […]

The University of Hawai’i-Hilo will oversee a new consortium of Pacific universities designed to boost the number of scientists from underrepresented minority groups, with support from a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation over the next five years.
UH-Hilo chancellor Rose Tseng is principal investigator for the grant, which creates the Islands of Opportunity […]

The emcee builds suspense before announcing the winner to the audience and the 10 women on stage. No one speaks a word as the tension builds, and each second takes longer than the one before it. Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for arrives.
Margaret Edwards, a nutritional sciences junior, was crowned as Miss […]

The Polish American Congress of Northeastern Pennsylvania officials awarded the ‘Stacia Feddock/Joseph Mroz Memorial Scholarship’ to Lindsey Allison Sorber, a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh. Sorber is a graduate of Pittston High School, Class of 2005, and plans to attend medical school to study pediatrics. PAC committee members from left are: Carol Matiko, secretary […]

Two recent Colorado College graduates are riding across the country on bicycles to raise money for a special scholarship at their alma mater.
Robin Dunn and Ari Stiller-Shulman both benefited from merit- and need-based financial aid when they were students at CC, and they say they now want to give back to a school that has […]

Genesis Technology Group announced that its subsidiary Genesis Equity Partners, LLC is establishing a college scholarship fund that will provide four-year scholarships to qualified female high school students to attend colleges and universities in China.
Dr. Shaohua Tan, Genesis Director and a tenured professor at Peking University, stated: “This is a simple and straightforward program: the […]

Grinnell College, located in Grinnell, Iowa is where eighteen-year-old Filippos Rotzer is attending college. “I grew up on a small island of Greece near Turkey. The name of this island is Chios, but for the last five years I moved to the Northern part of Greece in a city named Thessaloniki, which is […]

Scholarship Program Helps Epilepsy Patients Broaden Their Horizons
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Furthering one’s education can be an exciting yet daunting task, from deciding on schools and course loads to determining how to pay for tuition. For people dealing with the challenges of epilepsy, both from a patient and a caregiver perspective, these decisions can be even more complex and […]

With more college students skiing and snowboarding across the country, Westminster College’s “Winter at Westminster” study abroad alternative has decided to partner with The Canyons Resort to offer students a wider variety of winter recreation activities. Canyons Resort, the “Official Resort of Winter at Westminster,” is the 4th largest resort in North America. The partnership […]

The staff at the student financial aid office, located on the third floor of the administration building, has been dealing with water damage for a year and a half.
Several ceiling tiles have been removed and replaced by buckets to catch the leaking water. An entire cubicle workspace has been overrun with sheets of plastic […]