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The Lenoir Memorial Foundation presented the first Jamie C. Fields Memorial Scholarship to Tracy Baker, an employee of Lenoir Memorial Hospital.Gary Black, LMH president, and Diane White Reardon, mother of Jamie Fields, made the presentation. Reardon is the LMH Community Relations coordinator.

The scholarship is in memory of Jamie Chris Fields, who died in an automobile accident June 23, 2004. At the time, Fields was working as a pharmacy technician at LMH and attending Lenoir Community College to earn her degree in nursing.

“Jamie was a dedicated employee who cared about our patients and was excited about a nursing career,” said Dale Hardy, director of Pharmacy at LMH. “She was always willing to assist others and helped to foster a positive attitude of teamwork within our pharmacy department.” » Read more after the jump →

GSU student hopes to earn scholarship by organizing blood drive

When Lana Yelina lived in Belarus, she only gave blood once.

“There was an organization that came to the University I was studying at that was collecting blood for the hospital,” she said.

Now living in the United States, Yelina is a student at Georgia Southern and has taken on the responsibility of organizing a blood drive for the American Red Cross on the campus of Georgia Southern University.

And depending on how many people donate at her drive, she should be eligible for a $2,000 scholarship from the American Red Cross.

However, Yelina said she didn’t even know about the potential scholarship money when she was approached by a professor to organize a drive. » Read more after the jump →

British Council is pleased to announce Auckland’s Gema Carlson as the Scottish International Scholarship winner for 2006, the second New Zealander to win this prestigious award.

Gema, an AUT graduate is currently working for its Student Services department as Team Leader of the First-Year Experience and Orientation programmes, looking at the retention and success of students. She will travel to Scotland in September to complete a Masters in Education at Edinburgh University.

The Scottish International Scholarship is funded by Scottish Executive under its Fresh Talent scheme and aims to create lasting connections between Scotland and industry leaders and entrepreneurs across the world. » Read more after the jump →

Rural students are being encouraged to apply for a nursing scholarship program aimed at increasing the number of nurses in rural and remote Australia.

The Royal College of Nursing says the federally funded program provides $30,000 over three years to remove some of the barriers faced by bush students.

The college’s Elizabeth Foley says it is not a bonded scholarship, but provides a great opportunity to get more nurses into remote regions.

“Although we don’t have hard data at this stage, we have anecdotal evidence that this has really assisted people to do what they’ve always wanted to do … to do nursing and to also go out to live in rural areas where they feel comfortable because that’s where they’ve grown up and they know what to expect,” she said.

Applications under the program close on Friday.

Kakamega Forest, the only remaining tropical rainforest in Kenya, is threatened with extinction.

From the outside, the thick canopy gives the impression of a forest that has been shielded from destruction. Don’t be deceived; it is a camouflage.

A walk through the forest tells a different story. Wanton destruction of the forest by both large-scale loggers and charcoal burners has left the foliage of the once blossoming forest bare.

The forest has experienced severe degradation during the past three decades. Presently, more than half of the indigenous forest cover is bare. The closed canopy indigenous forest covers a paltry 25 per cent of the gazetted forest area. » Read more after the jump →

Growing up in the South, Princeton historian Kevin Kruse was fascinated by the civil rights movement. But the villains of the stories he heard — the cross-burning Klansmen and the club-wielding police officers — just didn’t resonate with him.

“I never recognized the white Southerners,” said Kruse, who was raised in Nashville. “The bulk of white people may have opposed civil rights, but not all of them opposed it in such a bloody and brutal way. There had to be more to the story.”

His interest in the topic led him to study segregationists in depth when he went to Cornell University graduate school, after earning a history degree from the University of North Carolina. “I was trying to find the people I knew in a story I knew well, not just the flat two-dimensional racists that everyone today would recognize as ridiculous.” » Read more after the jump →

When the deadline for applications for the Council for the Arts of Herndon scholarship arrived after a little more than a month of being open, the non-profit organization’s officials who prepared to grant $10,000 to students pursuing the study of the arts couldn’t believe it. Only one student had applied.

“We were a little surprised, especially since we’re giving away about $10,000 every year,” said Grace Wolf, president of the CAH. “You would think that if people told you they had free money to go to school, they’d be knocking down your door.”

CAH administrators began to call up teachers and put the word out to Herndon residents aged 13 to 21 who were studying some form of art that there was a lot of scholarship money » Read more after the jump →