The Borno government has earmarked N300 million in its 2008 budget for the award of scholarship to students in tertiary institutions.
The Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Abubakar Kyari, made this known Thursday in Maiduguri an interview with news men.
Alhaji Kyari said the award would enable the poor and the less privileged to benefit from that level […]

A University of Utah student has been selected to receive the prestigious Truman Scholarship.
Ingrid Price is 1 of 65 students selected from 283 colleges and universities nationwide for the Truman Scholarship.
Price is a junior working toward an honors degree in political science and international studies. She was selected from among more than 3,000 applicants and […]

Two are available from business group
The Route 40 Business Association is offering a scholarship for graduating seniors from Joppatowne, Edgewood, Aberdeen and Havre de Grace High schools.
Two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to students pursuing a degree or certificate in a business-related field.
Applications, with a letter including college choice and status, community activities, awards and […]

The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation has awarded roughly $496,000 in grants to 48 projects. These first-quarter grants are part of the foundation’s Arts, Culture and Education granting cycle.
These grants strengthen the quality of life in the community, Greater Kanawha President and CEO Becky Ceperley said.
The biggest grant, $45,000, goes to Recording for the Blind […]

Kilgore College has received a $100,000 grant to fund the college’s Risk Management Institute.
Texas Mutual Insurance Co. awarded the grant to the college to offer free safety training to employees across East Texas, according to a press release from the college. Kilgore College is the third Texas college to be awarded the grant by the […]

For more than 40 years, the Kiwanis Club of Mariemont, part of Kiwanis International, has been in the business of serving youth and their neighborhoods and developing young leaders.
A key recipient of their efforts has been the Mariemont City School District community.
Kiwanis members, along with faculty advisors, work with students in each of the five […]

Oklahoma City Community College has received a $1.72 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to fund a new college health careers program in clinical research.
The grant will give OCCC the opportunity to grant degrees and certificates in clinical research. College officials hope the program will serve as a national model.
Sonya Williams, the chairwoman […]

Kevin Trulock, a football player from Indiana University, and Molly Crispell, a swimmer from Penn State University, are the 2008 recipients of the Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award presented by the Indianapolis Big Ten Community Partnership. The award is a $2,500 annual scholarship recognizing one male and one female Big Ten senior student-athlete pursuing a postgraduate […]

The following organizations are accepting scholarship applications from graduating Hernando County high school seniors:
- Spring Hill Art League is accepting applications through April 1. Several $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to those who will be continuing their higher education in the visual arts. Applications are available at all county high school guidance departments.
Winners will […]

LAHORE: On the orders of Punjab Ombudsman Abdur Rashid Khan, the Lahore District Zakat Officer has released Rs 18,000 as zakat scholarship for two students.
Muhammad Irfan Haider and Muhammad Yaseen, MSc students of the University of Education, Lahore, submitted before the ombudsman that on approval of the zakat scholarship, the district zakat officer forwarded a […]