Highline Community College

MEDIA RELEASE

 

FOR RELEASE:  IMMEDIATELY
DATE:                  February 27, 2009

CONTACT:         Tina Ostrander: (206) 878-3710, ext. 6040, ssp@highline.edu

                              Lisa Skari: (206) 878-3710, ext. 3705; lskari@highline.edu

 

Highline’s Science Scholars Program names winter winners

 

DES MOINES, Wash. — Sixteen science, technology, engineering and math students at Highline Community College received up to $5,265 each from the college’s Science Scholars Program.

 

The scholarships, provided with funding from the National Science Foundation, help cover education costs for an academic year.

 

The scholarship winners for winter quarter, by city, are:

Des Moines                Michele Howard, Henok Kebede and Andrew Lawrence

Kent                            Tim Ha, Saher Hedayat, Si Nguyen and Urmila Patel

Renton                        Solomon Haile, Socheat Sum and George Vasquez

Seattle                         Lan Chau, Deborah Crow, Souleymane Dioubate, Anthony Petroff and LyHeng Touch

Tacoma                       Lori Jerome

 

To be eligible for a scholarship, students must qualify for financial aid, take at least 12 credits and have a 2.5 GPA or better. Students must be pursuing careers in astronomy, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environmental science, geology, marine science, mathematics, oceanography or physics.

 

In September 2007, the National Science Foundation awarded Highline almost $600,000 to provide scholarships to students majoring in the pure and applied sciences.

 

For more information about the Science Scholars Program, visit http://flightline.highline.edu/nsfscholarship.

 

Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 10,000 students and more than 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day, evening, online and weekend classes.

 

With the most diverse population of any college in Washington state, Highline takes a multicultural approach to education for the success of all its students and the prosperity of its surrounding communities. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington state poet laureate Sam Green.

 

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