Inspired By Black History: 2 Southfield-Lathrup Students Each Win a $1,000 Scholarship
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By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 18--Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, soul singer Otis Redding, poet Langston Hughes and the first African-American millionaire, Madam C.J.
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A 40-minute schlep by rail and car separates the homes of science prizewinners Jessica Fields, 17, of Jericho, and Taylor Bernheim, 16, of Holliswood, Queens.
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At least 1.3 million students will receive smaller Pell Grants, the nation's primary scholarship for those of low income.
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A biography of Gen. Robert E. Lee and a book about the relationship between President Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were this year's winners of the Lincoln Prize for Civil War scholarship.
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By ADRIA HAIRSTONBY ADRIA HAIRSTON  Students at General Greene Elementary witnessed technology in action at the school's annual technology fair May 25.
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Patricia Cornwell is donating $1 million to a top criminal justice college for a new academy to teach CSI techniques.
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HANOVER - A senior at South Shore Regional Vocational Technical High School has been named one of the state's Students of the Year.  Sean Levesque of Halifax, an electronics student, joined 47 other vocational technical school students during a ceremony at Memorial Hall in Worcester .
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The nation's most elite colleges and universities are bolstering their black student populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Education.
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At the start of Black History Month, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture announced the creation of an education project focusing on black migration over the past 400 years.
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Thirty-two American college students have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2005, the scholarship trust announced Sunday.
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A group of nursing school classmates are part of a growing contingent in Saturday&#39;s Race for the Cure, to benefit the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
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By Anonymous  CAMDEN Camden County College has received a five-year $477,879 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Scholars Program to benefit minorities and low-income students.
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Oxford University is to bring in bursaries worth up to Â£13,000 for students from low-income homes.
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Thirteen Los Angeles County students who have been relentless in working  to improve their communities and themselves will receive scholarships  today from the Kaiser Permanente Watts Counseling & Learning Center. The  students will be honored at 5 p.m.
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The two teenagers were short of nearly everything when they kick-started their Chicago T-shirt business seven years ago. Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart each chipped in $500. They ran it out of Nickell's apartment since DeHart still lived with his mother. For shipping, they enlisted friends to carry...
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Two years ago, Mary Nwachukwu spent her freshman year on the bench. Sidelined with a severe ankle injury, she was a virtual unknown in the Dighton-Rehoboth girls' basketball scene, let alone the South Coast Conference.
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Graduating from college isn't just an exercise for young adults. Some middle-aged adults also are donning those black graduation gowns.