AmericanScholarship - Update on Scholarships in America

The Bar Harbor Garden Club-St. Croix District, encourages college students to apply for a scholarship of $1,000 open to legal Maine residents studying horticulture or related fields.

Applicants should be students majoring in, planning to major in, or planning to take a graduate degree in horticulture, floriculture, landscape or urban design, conservation, forestry, botany, agronomy, plant pathology, environmental control, and/or other related fields.

The Nell Goff Scholarship will be awarded to a student entering his or her junior or senior year of college or graduate school in the fall of 2008.
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2008-2009 FELLOWSHIP GUIDELINES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Applications may be obtained at www.dekarman.org or in the mail. To receive an application in the mail, please submit your request via the website, or send your request to P.O. Box 3389, San Dimas, CA 91773. Requests must be received no later than December 31, 2007.

Complete applications, including official transcripts of applicant’s graduate and undergraduate studies at institutions in the United States and Canada and two letters of recommendation, must be received by the fellowship committee IN ONE PACKAGE postmarked no later than midnight, January 31, 2008. Late applications will not be considered.
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The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Seventy-five fellowships will be awarded in 2008 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical and site-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives.
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Eligibility
For outstanding students currently attending an eligible Datatel client institution. The Datatel Scholars Foundation scholarship is open to fulltime and parttime students (taking at least six credit hours), as well as undergraduate and graduate students.

Personal Statement Essay
The Datatel Scholars Foundation scholarship personal statement essay should summarize educational goals and objectives, where the applicant has been as an individual, and where they hope their education will take them. They should also indicate the difference a Datatel scholarship would make in their life and to those around them.
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