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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.

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

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

Nick Binedell: Dean, Gordon Institute of Business Science The Gordon Institute of Business is doubling its capacity through a major building expansion. Nick Binedell is director at Gibs. Welcome, Nick. Does this mean that South Africa will be stepping up the number of MBA that it produces? We keep hearing about our skills shortages. Is this an area of need? NICK BINEDELL: Well, I think it is a continuing growth across the leading schools, and I think the answer in the long term will be yes. We dont have plans to increase our MBA numbers in the short term. But, once the

EAs Bing Gordon on Game Design Education, Industry Challenges & More Electronic Arts co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon (right) recently shared his views on game design programs, the value of an MBA degree, outsourcing, EAs biggest risk and much more. Read on... Controversy over the rising number of game design programs in the U.S. has heated up. Some people claim that academics cant (or wont) teach useful skills to aspiring designers. Some claim that, beyond technical training, only commercial project experience is truly useful. How do you feel about this, and what do you think academic institutions should be

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,

The Micron Technology Foundation, Inc., announced today Virginia high school seniors Michael Lin, Sarah Marzen, and Catherine Pao will each receive a $16,500 scholarship as a part of the Micron Science and Technology Scholars program. Micron will honor Lin of York High School and New Horizons Governors School for Science and Technology, Marzen of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and Pao of Poquoson High School during a leadership and mentoring week at its headquarters and an awards banquet in June with Micron CEO Steve Appleton and other company and Foundation leaders. Since its inception in 2001, the

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

PROFESSOR GORDON Shirley, director of the Mona School of Business at the Mona, St. Andrew campus of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica `new ambassador to the USA, effective June 1. Foreign Minister K.D. Ritter made the announcement yesterday in the House of Representatives during his contribution to the economic debate 2004/05. "I am delighted, Mr. Speaker, to announce that the new ambassador to Washington, is Professor Gordon Shirley. Ands I thank the University of the West Indies to sing relea it so that he can begin his Tour of Duty in June "A Knight said the minister. three-year term Jamaica is a

MBA scholarship at Smurfit To try to attract the top international MBA candidates to Ireland, the UCD Smurfit School of Business is launching an ideas for the future scholarship. Prospective MBA students will be asked to discuss the best idea they have had for business and the impact that it would have on future generations. The award of €15,000, or almost two thirds of the full tuition fees, will be made at the beginning of the academic year in September. The successful candidate will be the one who best exemplifies creativity in business. Creativity in business can be defined as seeing what isnt there

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