A concert to benefit the Robert Wallace Hollingsworth Family Scholarship for Law Enforcement at Hinds Community College is set for next Saturday at Hinds’ Raymond campus.
“It is very important that law enforcement officers get a good education,” said Vicksburg resident Jack Hollingsworth, organizer of the concert. He will also sing at the event.
The benefit will […]

Fred Carr was elated when he learned he won a scholarship from a local organization.
But it wasn’t because of the money, though he certainly appreciates the $3,000 per year he will get to go to Loyola Marymount University. That and other larger scholarships will provide most of the financial support he needs, Carr said.
“I was […]

A scholarship fund at Northern Illinois University established to honor five students slain in a Valentine’s Day shooting is up to $500,000.
NIU Foundation President Mallory Simpson says the school did not solicit money for the fund. She told The (DeKalb) Daily Chronicle the money came from large and small donors.
The money’s called the “Forward, Together […]

THS scholarship recipients
• Jon Quarles Memorial Scholarship: Ryan Jack Wolfe and alternate Amanda Kathleen Albert.
• Ridgway Scholarship: Tracie Linn Hileman and Wallace Monroe Rachford III.
• Florence Seeley Riford Academic Scholarship: Jake Steven Bontrager, Ann Lorena Erickson and Tyler Booth Gurss.
• Andy Robbins Memorial Scholarship : Elizabeth Ann Baska.
• Dollie Scheller Scholarship: Cara Nicole Carlisle and […]

PLANT CITY - Close encounters of a zoo kind are in store this summer for one Plant City youngster. At an end-of-the-year award ceremony at Burney Elementary School in Plant City, Hillsborough County Commissioner Al Higginbotham presented kindergartner Dialyan Jenkins with a scholarship from the Lowry Park Zoo School for a one-week summer camp experience.
Dialyan […]

Brandi Mims of Dallas County High in Plantersville has been awarded a $1,250 scholarship from the Alabama Power Foundation.
Eligible students are dependent children of active, retired or deceased Alabama Power employees from across the state. Brandi is the daughter of Jerry and Becky Mims of Valley Grande. Jerry is a lineman at the Selma Crew […]

For Pasadena Memorial High School senior Bryan Day and Pasadena High School senior Daniel Garcia, working on cars has always been a favorite hobby. But now they are both using their passion of cars to rev up for their future as they are both recipients of the 2008 General Motors Goodwrench Educational Scholarship.
Day and Garcia […]

The government on Thursday approved the renaming of the Fulbright Scholarship as the Fulbright-Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships and Grants.
The cabinet, at a meeting here presided over by prime minister Manmohan Singh, also approved a revised draft agreement between the Indian and US governments for financing education exchange programmes.

“The agreement will facilitate an expansion of the existing […]

Scholarships were recently handed out for the Payette High School Class of 2008. Kegan Smith was presented the PHS Class of 1956 Memorial Scholarship for $1,000. He will be attending ITT Technical Institute pursuing a career in visual communications.
State of Idaho Promise Scholarships along with other scholarships from State Universities were presented. For Boise State […]

Clarke Central High School valedictorian Athena Lao Wednesday won a statewide National Honor Society scholarship from the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
One state winner was chosen for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and overseas chapters of NHS from the more than 6,000 applications for the program this year.
Lao […]