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UCLA Senior Wins Britain's Prestigious Marshall Scholarship
UCLA senior William Thomas Clarke"s journey, which led him to win a prestigious Marshall Scholarship that will fund two years of graduate study at England"s University of Oxford and has an estimated value of $60,000, started with a bit of a joke.
Clarke, 21, conducts research in the laboratory of Rachelle Crosbie, a UCLA assistant professor of physiological science who discovered a small protein called sarcospan which seems to play a key role in muscular dystrophy. There is a link between sarcospan and another protein called utrophin; at abnormally high levels in muscle, sarcospan causes increased production of utrophin.
In the laboratory one day, Crosbie, graduate student Angela Peter and Clarke were talking about Kay Davies, a professor at Oxford"s Medical Research Council Functional Genetics Unit and the world"s leading expert on utrophin.
St Andrews in hunt for next Tiger
FROM the gritty streets of urban America to the lush fairways of the Home of Golf. A unique sporting scholarship has been set up to try to unearth another Tiger Woods. Promising golfers from minority groups in the US will be invited next year to apply for a scholarship that will cover the costs of four years at St Andrews University while they study and improve their game. .
TAMUQ receives QR270,000 aid
Texas A and M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) has received a donation of QR270,000 to its general scholarship fund from ConocoPhillips. Joining ConocoPhillips Qatar president Mike Stice for the cheque presentation was TAMUQ associate dean for Academic Affairs Dr James Holste and several students from the Electrical and Chemical Engineering Departments. "ConocoPhillips has a long and valued history of support for Texas A&M University," said Stice who added that the contribution also shows his company's commitment to Qatar and Education City. Dr Holste, while thanking Stice for the contribution from ConocoPhillips, observed that such donations cement "our relationships with local industry partners and allow us to achieve an even higher level of excellence in the education of our students".
Boston University Student Group Offers Whites-Only Scholarship
The Boston University chapter of the College Republicans wanted to start a dialogue about racial preferences when members created a $250 Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship, the group president told ABC News. Applicants, who must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher, must be at least one-quarter White. We believe that racial preferences in all their forms are perhaps the worst form of bigotry confronting America today, reads the application Joe Mroszczyk, group president, told ABC News the College Republicans are offering the scholarship to point out how ridiculous it is to have any sort of racially based scholarship. He said there were plenty of poor, White, academically gifted students who could use scholarship money set aside for minorities.
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