State officials yesterday announced plans to pour $41 million into programs to help students with disabilities enter the workforce or start college after finishing high school.
More than $5 million of that will go to eight city schools, including Francis Lewis High School in Queens, where officials plan to spend their $423,000 grant on extra services […]

Outstanding Penn State students from Blair County who have financial need and are enrolled in the Smeal College of Business are eligible to benefit from a gift from the Phi Sigma Delta Sigma Educational Foundation and its members. The foundation matched a $25,000 gift made by 36 Phi Sigma Delta fraternity brothers for a total […]

Eleven outstanding teenagers were honored in the Prom Wishes Scholarship competition, which asked the students to describe their “Wish for a Better Tomorrow” as well as their efforts to serve their communities. Narrowing the field down from many impressive essays, Prom Wishes by P, a prom supply company based in South Whitley, Indiana, awarded ten […]

The University of Memphis athletic department is expected to set a record for donations to its Tiger Scholarship Fund, surpassing last year’s record of $5 million.
The TSF, the fund-raising arm for the athletic department, reached its longtime goal of $5 million last year, but could approach $6 million when figures are announced next month. A […]

The First Annual Ali-Tessa Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser was held today at Q-Master Billiards in Virginia Beach.
It is meant to help raise awareness and money for scholarships to First Colonial and Kellam High Schools in Virginia Beach.
Alison Kunhardt was a student at First Colonial and Tessa Trechaunt was a student at Kellam High. […]

To increase the number of African-American men with doctorates in the sciences, the 100 Black Men of America and the National Consortium for Educational Access (NCEA) have begun a new fellowship program.
“In the next five years we’re going to see an extreme shortage in minority Ph.D.s,” said Dr. Leroy Ervin, president of the NCEA and […]

Elizabeth Lewis of Earlville, a Pilot -in Training and a student at Sherburne-Earlville Central School was given a scholarship to attend the Experiment Aircraft Association’s 2007 Advanced Air Academy to be held this summer at EAA Headquarters in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Elizabeth was sponsored by the local Chapter 1204 of the EAA located at Lt. […]

Ronetco Supermarkets, Inc., has awarded the $2,000 Distinguished Achievement Award to Jean Marie P. Carroll, daughter of Maria Carroll, a ShopRite of Franklin associate since 1999.
Carroll, a Wantage resident, is a senior at Northeastern University, where she is majoring in Spanish with a minor in secondary education.
At college, she earned the National Society of Collegiate […]

A grant will bring cutting-edge technology to New Philadelphia and point the way for more excavation work next summer.
The $14,000 grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training covers the cost of an aerial survey this fall using high-resolution thermal imaging to look beneath the surface of the community founded by Free […]

Fourteen area seniors received $1,000 grants from Crawford College Connection at its annual awards program and reception May 20 in the fellowship hall of Epworth United Methodist Church. In addition, one adult learner was awarded a $500 by the organization.
Kyle Smith, Wynford High School, and Emily Lust, Colonel Crawford High School, received a $1,000 nursing […]