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Selected to receive a four-year undergraduate scholarship of $4,000 was Tiffany Gordon, a graduating senior from Salem Community High School. This year alone, the Illinois AMVETS Scholarship Program has awarded more than $113,000 in scholarships to graduating high school students. Gordon will be entering the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this fall to pursue a bachelor's degree. The AMVETS Department of Illinois has been an organization of Veterans serving Veterans since 1945. Illinois AMVETS has been at the forefront of community and Veterans' service for the State of Illinois. Their goal is to improve the lives of the nation's Veterans

Tysons Corner loan originator awarded diversity scholarship to Campus MBA program Option One Mortgage Corp. a national residential lender and subsidiary of H&R Block Inc., has chosen Scott Davis of Market Street Mortgage in Tysons Corner, to receive a Loan Originator Diversity Scholarship to the Campus MBA program in recognition of his outreach to diverse markets and communities. Scotts commitment to educating consumers about the home-buying and lending process is commendable, said Larry Gilmore, vice president of Emerging Markets, Option One. We know many people are reluctant to make the commitment to homeownership because they may not fully understand the process.

Top 50 Under 50: U.Va. Darden Alumni Among Executives Named to Prestigious Black MBA List Four graduates of the University of Virginias Darden School of Business have been named to Black MBA Magazines list of the Top 50 Under 50 African-American corporate executives. Darden alumni Thomas Baltimore (91), Bryan Simms (94), Warren Thompson (83) and William Wright (87) were all named to the prestigious list. They were selected based on their positions within a publicly or privately traded company, their responsibility in managing significant revenues, plus they must have revenue generating or operational responsibilities, and hold an MBA, said Black MBA

Students from two San Antonio universities and one Texas State University student in San Marcos are among this year's 15 scholarship winners from the Texas Business Hall of Fame. The hall of fame foundation announced the winners Tuesday, saying each will receive $10,000 scholarships to apply toward their work on master's degrees in business administration. The winners are Stuart Bankey of the University of Texas at San Antonio, Gina Culotta at St. Mary's University and Maggie Lajaunie at Texas State University. The hall, which will hold ceremonies Nov. 5 in San Antonio to induct four prominent business leaders into the

MBA students to benefit from scholarships The Urban Land Institutes (ULI) Arizona District Council has awarded scholarships to two W. P. Carey School of Business graduate students in the schools full-time MBA real estate specialization program. The two $2,000 awards are part of a new ULI real estate scholarship program for students at the W. P. Carey School and at ASUs College of Design. This is the first year that ULI Arizona has awarded scholarships, according to Steve Gervais, chair of the ULI Arizona Scholarship Committee. Gervais said the institute created the scholarships to encourage top academic performers to pursue careers

Five post-grad scholarships Five former UT student-athletes -- Will Curtiss, a 1998-2001 baseball player, Jake Finlayson, UT tight end from 2001-04, Tim Nguyen, track shot put and hammer thrower from 2004-05, Will Overstreet, UT defensive end from 1998-2001 and Chris Robinson, a 2002-04 golfer -- were awarded post-graduate endowment scholarships to further pursue their education Curtiss, a former Vol pitcher, received the Herman Hickman Memorial Scholarship, which will be used towards his final year of the MBA program. Finlayson, who was Academic All-SEC in 2004, graduated with a degree in civil engineering and will be pursuing a masters in civil

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, founded in the year 1949. The objective of the Institute is to help their students to develop vocational training and management of industry, government, labour and non-governmental organizations. XLRI programmes Post-Graduate Programme in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PM & IR), BWL, modelled on the Harvard Business School and Jesuit-business schools in the USA. There are scholarships for PM and IR and Business Management Day (BMD). Some of them are as follows: Jubilee for PM and IR, a scholarship to Rs50, 000, Reckitt Benckiser for PM and IR, a scholarship to Rs25, 000; anniversary for BM1,

Mary Emily Kendig Corbin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lawrence Jr. Kendig Richmond, and Richard Watkins 3d Carrington, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carrington Jr. of Richmond, was married yesterday on the grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The priest William Hill Brown, the ceremony supported by the Bishop Robert Bruce Hall of Virginia. The bride, a graduate of St. Catherine's School, Richmond, was graduated from Sweet Briar College and the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. She is a member of the Junior League of Dallas. His father is a professor of pediatrics at

The SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) from Mumbai, in alliance with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (CPI) of the U.S.-18 offers a month of contact offline program SPJIMR VT-MIT regarding the implementation and The management of information technology (IT) solutions projects. The course offers a Master's Degree in Information Technology at the CPI and SPJIMR. The course is a 2-track for working professionals and others for graduates of information technology (IT) background.

Sandeep Shukla’s work in designing, analyzing, and predicting the performance of electronic systems — particularly embedded computers — has drawn acclaim from the National Academies, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the White House. The most recent honor for Shukla, an associate professor in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is an invitation from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to participate in the 19th annual Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Nov. 8-10 in Irvine, Cal. Shukla, who came to Virginia Tech in 2002, is among a group of about 100 scientists under the

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