Highline Community College

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FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: December 15, 2008

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 scholarship winners

DES MOINES, Wash. — Thirteen 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, by city, are:

Burien                         Jesse Hamm

Des Moines                 Mark Flynn

Federal Way              Damien DeCremer, Vasili Ialanji and Tri Le

Kent Jason Miklovich, Mais Abdulwahab and Gursharanjit Singh

Normandy Park Ravi Bansai

SeaTac                        Natnael Gezahegne

Seattle                         LeeAnna Miller

Tacoma                       Mong-Tuyen Tran and Steve Raniero

The scholarships are available to students who are eligible for financial aid, taking 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 and 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’s poet laureate Sam Green.

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