Awards

  • Foreign Language Assistance Program
    Tue, Apr 01, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The Foreign Language Assistance Program gives grants to local educational agencies for innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students. Under this competition, five-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to work in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education to establish or expand articulated programs of study in languages critical to United States national security. Note: the deadline for a notice of intent to apply is April 11, 2008. [ Read More ]

  • Medical students receive grants from American Medical Association Foundation
    Thu, Feb 28, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The American Medical Association Foundation announced the 47 recipients of the 2008 Seed Grant Research Program. Established in 2001, the program provides $2,500 grants to medical students, physician residents, and fellows to conduct basic science, applied, or clinical research projects. This year's grant winners are conducting research in the following five categories: cardiovascular/pulmonary diseases; HIV/AIDS; leukemia; neoplastic diseases; and secondhand smoke. The Seed Grant Research Program was established to encourage more medical students, residents and fellows to enter the field of research. [ Read More ]

  • National Engineering Design Challenge winners announced
    Thu, Feb 28, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    A Gardner Edgerton High School (Gardner, Kan.) engineering design team was selected as the winner of the annual JETS/AbilityOne National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC) with their creation of the Bag Attachment and Replacement Technology, winning the grant prize of $3,000 for their school's sponsoring department. The National Engineering Design Challenge is a contest for high school engineering students around the country, to build technologies that will assist people with severe disabilities in the workplace. AbilityOne (formerly known as the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program) and the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) selected the team from Gardner Edgerton as the winner from five other finalists. Garfield-Palouse High School from Palouse, Wash. and Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science from Denton, Texas both won second-place prizes. [ Read More ]

  • Inspiration Software honors 25 educators with scholarships
    Thu, Feb 28, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    Inspiration Software has announced the 25 talented educators who will receive the 2007-2008 Inspired Teacher Scholarships for Visual Learning. The scholarships recognize educators' "Best Projects" using Inspiration Software's visual learning software tools. The top honor for "Best Overall Visual Learning Project" scholarship award goes to Kathie Thuillez, a sixth grade social studies teacher at Fort Settlement Middle School in Sugar Land, Texas. All 25 recipients will receive $1,000 to support professional development or new technology for their classrooms in recognition of their creative use of visual learning to help their students think and learn. In addition, Thuillez will receive a bonus of $500 for classroom technology and a $500 personal award for her innovative and creative use of Inspiration. Excerpts from the 25 scholarship recipients' application essays will be featured in the Inspired Learning Community, Inspiration Software's online community for educators who want to inspire their students to excel with visual thinking and learning. [ Read More ]

  • C-SPAN announces "StudentCam" video documentary winners
    Thu, Feb 28, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    C-SPAN's annual video documentary competition, StudentCam, awards $50,000 in prize money and this year asked middle and high school students "Which issue in this presidential campaign year is of greatest importance to you?" The grand prize winning video is "Leaving Religion at the Door," by Scott Mitchell and Nick Poss of Jenks, Okla., which explores the role of religion in government. A cash prize of $5,000 accompanies the award. Their winning video will air on C-SPAN on Sunday, April 27th followed by an interview with the students. The StudentCam competition names 92 total winning videos accompanied by $50,000 in cash awards, including a grand prize winner, two first prize winners; eight second prize winners, 16 third prize winners, and 65 honorable mentions in middle and high school categories. The top 27 winning videos will air on C-SPAN, one each day, starting on Tuesday, April 1, 2008. The top political issues based on the entries in the 2008 StudentCam competition are global warming and the environment, healthcare, and immigration. [ Read More ]

  • eInstruction donates $100,000 to Tiger Woods Learning Center
    Thu, Feb 28, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    eInstruction, a provider of interactive instructional and assessment technology, software, and content, recently donated an additional $100,000 worth of its student response technology to the Tiger Woods Learning Center (TWLC), a youth education facility located in Anaheim, Calif. Through the donation of 550 Classroom Performance System (CPS) student response pads, accompanying software, and seven interactive tablets, eInstruction joins TWLC in its commitment to advance academic progress for every child. Since receiving the CPS donation less than two months ago, TWLC teachers have used the technology in their classrooms as a way to engage students and help them learn concepts -- often through interactive challenges such as trivia and live, classroom surveys. The TWLC faculty also uses the CPS technology to share and review information with their peers. [ Read More ]

  • NSF grant to help NY colleges recruit minorities into STEM fields
    Tue, Jan 29, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3 million over five years to an alliance of upstate New York colleges and universities to enroll and graduate more minority students from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree programs. In response to pressing local needs and national goals, the Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ULSAMP) was formed to attract and maximize the potential of students from African-American, Latino American, and Native American (AALANA) populations. The ULSAMP program will achieve its goals through a two-pronged approach -- implemented across the alliance -- that includes enhancing recruitment of both first-time freshmen and transfer students, and by providing new opportunities to enhance the graduation rate of the targeted populations. Member institutions include Clarkson University, Cornell University, Monroe Community College, Onondaga Community College, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Syracuse University. [ Read More ]

  • Chicago students receive scholarships from Siemens Building Technologies
    Tue, Jan 29, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    More than 300 students from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) received the gift of opportunity this holiday season when millions of scholarship dollars were announced at the annual CPS College Fair and Reception. CPS students with at least a 3.0 GPA and a 21 ACT score sat with their cheering families as representatives from 24 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) all over the United States announced full and partial scholarships on stage. The college fair and reception are a collaboration between CPS and Siemens Building Technologies. This is the fourth year the two organizations have worked together to host the scholarship reception. Both CPS and Siemens hope to provide local students with a chance to go to the college or university of their choice without the financial burden of private tuition and or out-of- state living expenses. [ Read More ]

  • Ten undergraduate students awarded $10,000 each from SAP
    Tue, Jan 29, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    SAP America Inc. recently announced that 10 undergraduate students are recipients of its second-annual scholarship program, which helps discover and empower talented undergraduates who exhibit the capabilities of future business leaders. In conjunction with the SAP University Alliances program and SAP's corporate citizenship program, the highly competitive scholarship encourages students to think innovatively and apply business technology concepts to solve industry challenges through research. By partnering with member universities, the SAP University Alliances program exposes students to a variety of higher-learning opportunities and encourages them to apply their knowledge of business technology to real-life scenarios. Designed for undergraduate students studying business, computer science, mathematics, or engineering, the scholarship program from SAP evaluates applicants based on their familiarity with and understanding of business technology. The application process is rigorous, with a personal research paper being the main component and highest weighted of the selection criteria. The paper must identify a current problem or issue relevant to enterprise resource planning (ERP) or other state-of-the-art business technology, and thoroughly examine both the issue and its consequences, as well as propose practical recommendations to solve it. The following students received scholarships through the program: Nicole Smith, Ball State University; Greg Turcotte, California State University, Chico; Lora Atanasova, Drexel University; Matthews McGarity, Penn State University; Scott Pudlewski, Rochester Institute of Technology; Arthur Cardillo, Villanova University; Kyle Raschen, Villanova University; Marie Chapman, Western Michigan University; Richard Pode, Western Michigan University; and Noah Pascarell, Widener University. [ Read More ]

  • University of New Hampshire forms partnership after receiving innovation grant
    Tue, Jan 29, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The University of New Hampshire (UNH) will be partnering with AmberWave Systems, after the two institutions were named as recipients of the "Granite State Technology Innovation Grant" by the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center (NHIRC). The NHIRC's Granite State Technology Innovation Grant leverages an investment by the state with federal dollars from the National Science Foundation's EPSCoR program (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). The grant will help support the project "Cost Effective Nano-Patterning for Aspect Ratio Trapping Technology." Glen P. Miller, a professor in the department of chemistry and materials science program at UNH, will lead the grant project at the university. Miller also serves as the associate director of the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at UNH. The project will allow him, as well as his students, to transition from cutting-edge research to real world applications. [ Read More ]

 

Across the country, schools like yours are reaping the benefits of contributions from federal, corporate, and private funders. Here's a list of the latest grant winners and their funding sources.