{"id":61315,"date":"2013-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-college-of-engineering-awards-minority-scholarships-to-three-recent-graduates-of-providence-high-schools\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T00:00:00","slug":"uri-college-of-engineering-awards-minority-scholarships-to-three-recent-graduates-of-providence-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/uri-college-of-engineering-awards-minority-scholarships-to-three-recent-graduates-of-providence-high-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering awards minority scholarships to three recent graduates of Providence high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 19, 2013 \u2013 Three students who graduated from Providence high schools this year have been awarded $1,000 scholarships to enroll at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering in September.  The awards are presented through the Engineering Providence High Schools\u2019 Minority Student Engineering and Women Scholarship program.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe recipients of the scholarship are Alexis Villami from Mt. Pleasant High School, Olayemi Williams from E-Cubed Academy, and Kevin Valerro from Central High School.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re extremely pleased to be able to offer these scholarships to such promising students this year,\u201d said Charles Watson, coordinator of the College of Engineering\u2019s Office of Minority Student Recruitment and Retention, who administers the scholarship program.  \u201cPast recipients of the scholarship have had great success at 溏心vlog免费B站 and have moved on to excellent careers in industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tTo qualify for the scholarship, students must be accepted to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering and graduate in good academic standing from one of the eight Providence high schools. Recipients must agree to participate in the College of Engineering\u2019s Ambassador Program, join the 溏心vlog免费B站 chapter of a professional minority engineering society, and attend a professional development workshop or conference every semester.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSince the program\u2019s inception in 2008, 27 scholarships have been awarded.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nProvidence students seeking to apply for the scholarship next year are encouraged to contact Charles Watson at 401-874-4976 or Watson@egr.uri.edu.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 19, 2013 \u2013 Three students who graduated from Providence high schools this year have been awarded $1,000 scholarships to enroll at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering in September. The awards are presented through the Engineering Providence High Schools\u2019 Minority Student Engineering and Women Scholarship program. &#13; The recipients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}