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Financial Service Centers of America Awards Scholarship to Local Student at ACE Cash Express

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Lindsey Maxon, a 2009 graduate of Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas, received a $2000 scholarship from the Financial Service Centers of America (FiSCA) National Scholarship Program. The July 31 check presentation was held at the corporate office of ACE Cash Express in Irving, Texas.
As a member of FiSCA, the national trade association representing an [...]

AT&T Awards Annual Environmental Fellowship Funding

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AT&T* announced the 2009 recipients of fellowship awards through its Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship program. Contributions totaling $75,000 have been awarded to three academic research teams.
AT&T has a long history of enabling research on industrial ecology — a multidisciplinary science that investigates how the economy and the environment can coexist — through the AT&T [...]

Motorola Foundation Grants $5 Million to Programs That Engage Budding Innovators

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The Motorola Foundation announced the recipients of its 2009 Innovation Generation grants, $5 million in funding to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education for America’s youth. Now in its fourth year, the grants create opportunities for students to experience STEM both inside and outside the classroom, equipping them with the skills essential [...]

Longhorn Fans Crowned Champions of Tostitos ‘Race to the Bowl’ Winning $200,000 Scholarship

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The Tostitos brand crowned six die-hard University of Texas fans champions of this year’s Tostitos “Race to the Bowl” competition and awarded them $200,000 for their school’s general scholarship fund during the national broadcast of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Starting on New Year’s Eve in New York City, a team of fans from Ohio [...]

RAID Incorporated and NEC Expand Partnership to Deliver the Industrys Only Self-Evolving Storage Platform to Government, Education Markets

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RAID Inc., a customized storage solution and services provider specializing in leading edge technologies, announced it has entered into an OEM agreement with NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions. RAID Inc. will license NEC’s HYDRAstor HS8 grid storage platform products and the HYDRAstor trademark and sell [...]

The Sallie Mae Fund Awards $2 Million in College Scholarships to 800 Students Nationwide This School Year

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In recognition of National Scholarship Month, The Sallie Mae Fund, a charitable organization sponsored by Sallie Mae, awarded $2 million in scholarships to help approximately 800 students pursue a college education this school year. These awards are part of The Sallie Mae Fund’s efforts to increase access to higher education for lower-income and minority [...]

Sony Online Entertainment Issues Industry-Wide Call to Action to Expand G.I.R.L. Scholarship Program

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Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), a global leader in online gaming, invited all companies doing business in the video game industry to join SOE’s efforts to educate and recruit more women into the field of video game creation, design and production.
In a lunchtime keynote speech during the International Game Developers Association conference in San Francisco, [...]

Wainhouse Research, Drexel University, and the World Bank GDLN Bridge East and West With Virtual Symposium on Globalization, Learning, and Technology

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Wainhouse Research in conjunction with Drexel University and the World Bank’s Global Development Learning Network presents a U.S. – China Virtual Symposium focused on the theme “Building Virtual Global Communities”. Hosted online from November 11th-14th, the symposium incorporates live webcasts, short on-demand (recorded) presentations, panel discussions, blogs, and live presentations in SecondLife as a means [...]

Aspen Institute Names Stanford Business School Professor Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award for Integrating Social and Environmental Issues into MBA Education

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The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education has announced that Stanford Graduate School of Business professor David Baron is the winner of the 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award was made at a November 5 reception at Ernst & Young’s corporate headquarters in New York City.
The award was among several given at [...]

Alumnus David Booth gives $300 million to University of Chicago business school; Largest gift in the University’s history

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An entrepreneur and visionary marketer who built his successful investment firm on finance principles he learned at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business has returned the favor by making the largest donation in the University’s history and the largest gift to any business school in the world, the school announced today (Thursday, November [...]

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