Scholarships for Dads and Students – Chance to Win $10,000

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Nursing Scholarships for Dads and Students

With so many people losing their jobs due to cutbacks or just plain having their positions done away with, most are looking to go back to school and enter a new field. One career path that many are taking is in medicine. According to the projection by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be a need for more than a million new and replacement registered nurses by the year 2016. This makes the field of nursing very desirable by many. But sometimes the cost of this education will hold some would-be nurses back.

However, thanks to a nursing scholarship program in Virginia, many students may be able to enter the medical field. The University of Virginia School of Nursing has received funds from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing via the foundation’s New Careers in Nursing Scholarship program. This scholarship program will be awarding scholarships for dads and men and underrepresented minorities.

Scholarship money will be given to those underrepresented groups of students including non-traditional students, men, and minorities.

At the University of Virgina there will be five $10,000 scholarships awarded to students entering accelerated nursing programs during the current academic year.

Men and minorities who are interested in this nursing scholarship program and are applying for next semester should contact Clay Hysell at 434-924-0066 or cdh6n@virginia.edu. The application deadline is November 1st.

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The John A. Burns School of Medicine will provide one medical school scholarship for Hawaii student, who plans to practice medicine within the state.

This medical school scholarship, called the Elizabeth and Richard Grossman Scholarship will provide full tuition for four years, which equals $120,000. The purpose of this scholarship is entice a future physician, who may otherwise move to the mainlands where the cost of living is cheaper, to remain in Hawaii after graduation, thus improving the medical care found in the islands

As many of us know, medical school is quite expensive and many students will be in some serious debt after graduating. This is why it is very important to search out scholarships even medical school scholarships to help ease the burden of the cost of a college education.

Elizabeth and Richard Grossman became part-time residents of Kailua three years ago. Elizabeth is a retired managing director with Soros Fund Management Co and Richard is a plastic surgeon, who is also the founder of the Grossman Burn Centers.

To find out more information about this medical school scholarship, visit http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/.