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Need Help Paying For College Textbooks? Meet A Teenager With Money To Give

Five high school teenagers have established a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization that awards textbook grants to college students. The organization, Beans For Books, has recently been approved and added to FastWeb, a Monster Company that matches students with available grants. The founder, 17 year old Dave Lanning, Jr., has plans to roll out the organization to every college campus in the country. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)

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MyProjectorLamps.com 2.0 Adds Discount Accounts and a New Look

Projector lamp retailer MyProjectorLamps.com launches updated website that includes new features such as a sleek new look, discount accounts, projector lamp information and a projector lamp FAQ. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)

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College Pathways' 'Admission Zen' DVD Offers Path to Enlightenment on Finding a College Major, Getting Accepted

Admission into the nation's top colleges and universities is becoming as competitive as the job market, and many prospective recruits are looking for an edge. Independent college counseling company College Pathways boils down the secrets to academic acceptance and success into a newly released DVD, "Admission Zen: The Stress Free Path to Getting into College." College Pathways has secured agreements with Library Video Company and Midwest Inc. to distribute the DVD, the only one of its kind for college-age students. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)

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Academy of Art University Student Receives 2008 AIGA San Francisco Enrichment Scholarship

Sumila Mehta, a 2008 graduate of the Academy of Art University, School of Graphic Design, is the recipient of the 2008 AIGA San Francisco Enrichment Scholarship. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)

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QSI Introduces the 4.2mp QSI 540 and 540c Cooled CCD Cameras

Breakthrough QSI image quality is now available with a larger 4.2mp sensor. The compact design of the QSI 500 Series allows the QSI 540 to set a new benchmark for size and cost in a high performance, full-featured scientific CCD camera with the 2048x2048 Kodak KAI-04022 sensor. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)

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CAS Awards Nursing Scholarship to PCC Student

Charitable Organization in Pasadena gives scholarship to deserving nursing student in Pasadena Community Center. In line with its tradition of handing our FREE medical equipment since 1923, Convalescent Aid Society awards its annual scholarship money to Internatioanl student from India. The CAS is one of the best kept secret in Pasadena. CA. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)

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New York Life Insurance Company Veteran, Robert McLoughlin, CLUŽ, Named Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff at The American College

The American College, the nation's leading financial services educator, announced today the appointment of Robert McLoughlin, CLU®, as Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff. As a 30-year New York Life Insurance Company employee, McLoughlin brings significant financial services experience to his new role at The College. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)

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DataBank Receives National Awards and Recognition for Document Management Solutions

Hyland Software, Digitech Systems and Verizon Business recognize industry leading document scanning company. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)

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Veritas Prep Announces MBA LaunchPad 2008 to Prepare First-Year MBA Candidates for a Successful Business School Experience

Two-day event is designed to teach business school students how to excel academically and professionally from day one. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)

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Ivy Foundation Funds New Brain Cancer Research Consortium : $3M Stage I Project Aims to Improve Personalized Medicine for Patients

Today, the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation (Ivy Foundation), a newly formed family foundation dedicated to improving survival and quality of life for patients with brain tumors, announced funding for the Ivy Genomics-Based Medicine Project. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)

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Buena Vista University Launches "BVU Alert" for Campus Emergencies or Severe Weather Announcements; Desktop Application by ActiveAccess to Be Installed on All Student-Faculty Computers for Immediate Notification and Instructions : Desktop Content Delivery Platform Also Provides Campus News and Calendar of Events

ActiveAccess (http://www.activeaccess.com), a desktop content delivery platform offered by BIA Information Network (BIN), announced today that Buena Vista University (http://www.bvu.edu) has launched BVU Alert a campus-wide desktop emergency notification system, on the computers of all students and faculty attending the school. While the system is being installed for campus emergencies and severe weather warnings, it is also equipped with a convenient university calendar for current events and programs and an RSS feed with news and information about Buena Vista University and the surrounding Storm Lake, Iowa area. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)

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CollegeGrad.com Names Top 25 Cities for Entry Level Job Seekers

In the midst of summer job search for recent college graduates, CollegeGrad.com names the top 25 cities for entry level job seekers. The top 25 cities account for 40,000 entry level positions for college grads. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)

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LearnHub.com Launches World's Largest Free SAT and GMAT Question Banks

LearnHub.com, an online social learning network, has announced the availability of the world's largest free SAT and GMAT question banks. The site hosts communities to help prepare students for SAT and GMAT exams that now include thousands of original practice questions. In addition to helping with these standardized tests, these communities are also a hub of activity for domestic and international students to connect with academic recruiters. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)

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LiveTime Releases New ITIL Service Desk Virtual Appliance for Sun xVM and VMware

ITIL Service Management and Help Desk Virtual appliance includes LiveTimes' latest JeOS with symmetric multiprocessing and decreased memory footprint for customers and SaaS providers. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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James Fuchs Joins Sober College as Full Time Music Director

Sober College proudly announces new addition James Fuchs to the Creative Arts Program. James, who has worked in recovery for the past five years, has been known to heal souls with his musical gifts. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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Baby Boomers Return to College at Record-Breaking Rates Finds Academy of Art University in San Francisco

The group of adults defined by sociologists as "baby boomers" are once again filling the halls of colleges and universities nationwide, making them the new kids on campus. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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MSNBC Features Millennial-Gen Y Author, Lisa Orrell, To Discuss Innovative Recruiting Strategies

MSNBC featured guest, Lisa Orrell, Millennial-Gen Y Expert and author of "Millennials Incorporated", discusses innovative strategies for recruiting Gen Y. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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SimpleTuition Connects Quarter of a Million Student Loan Borrowers to Lenders So Far in 2008 : Website Has Potentially Facilitated As Much As $1.2 Billion in Smarter College Borrowing in 2008

SimpleTuition, the leading student loan comparison site for personalized student loan research, today announced at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) conference that the company’s award-winning website (www.simpletuition.com) has connected more than 250,000 student and parent borrowers to lenders year to date in 2008, on target to reach 750,000 for the year from 2 million visitors. In aggregate, year-to-date activity represents nearly $1.2 billion dollars in prospective borrowing. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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Best Practices in Copyright and Fair Use for User-Generated Content Released

American University coordinates guide to staying legal in remix culture (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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Dell College Gaming League Becomes First Official Amateur League Partner for Championship Gaming Series : Exclusive Deal Gains College Gaming League Worldwide Exposure and Brings CGS to Hundreds of U.S. College Campuses

Dell’s College Gaming League (CGL), the community for avid PC and Xbox 360 collegiate gamers and Championship Gaming Series® (CGS), have joined forces and established the CGL as the first Official Amateur League Partner of CGS. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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'English 1 On 1' --- The Best Value One On One English Learning Program For ESL Students Around World

ESL students can now have a more interactive approach to learning the English language. A new, more interactive learning program for ESL students has been created in Atlanta, USA. English 1 On 1 was created to give students exactly what they need to improve their skills as English speakers - the opportunity to speak one-on-one with a personal native English-speaking teacher. English1on1 records every session between our teachers and students so that students can listen to their own sessions anytime afterward to review what they have learned. The advantages to use English 1 On 1 are: convenience, comfort, quality, individual attention, personal recordings, value, and efficient. Most English1on1 sessions are $10 per session (30 min). (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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Pharos Systems Introduces Enhanced iMFP Solution for Canon

Pharos Systems announces the launch of version 2.2 of the Pharos integrated Multifunction Printer (iMFP) solution for Canon, which provides users access to Pharos Uniprint® and Pharos Blueprint® Enterprise from the touch-panel interface of MEAP-enabled Canon multifunction printers. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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HACCP Wireless Temperature Monitoring Systems for College and University Food Services

Green Edge Systems, Inc. presents its HACCP wireless temperature monitoring system for College and University food services in the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS) 2008 National Conference and Exhibition, Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC, July 10-11 2008. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)

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New Scholarship for Leaders of Bipolar Lives

The Bipolar Lives Scholarship is a new scholarship created specifically with the bipolar community in mind. Many people with bipolar disorder are extremely talented but fail to realize their potential. The $500 cash award is intended to provide practical support for seekers of higher education. (PRWeb Jul 6, 2008)

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Mom Central Radio Goes Live Powered By BAM

Popular parenting site adds Body, Mind and Child podcasts to offerings. (PRWeb Jul 4, 2008)

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Vertrue Incorporated Offers Job Hunting Tips: Fight to Find the Right Fit

Vertrue, a Premier Online Marketer, Helps Job Hunters During Tough Times (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008)

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Paolo Aglietti, MD, President of the International Society of Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy, Inducted into Sports Medicine Hall of Fame

Renowned, Italian, orthopaedic surgeon, Paolo Aglietti, MD, will be inducted into the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Hall of Fame on July 12, 2008, during AOSSM’s Annual Meeting in Orlando. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008)

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Tips on How to Get Scholarships

Financial aid administrators offer advice to students on how to get scholarships. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008)

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Lchinese Announces Learn Chinese 2008 Software for Schools and Universities

Learn Chinese 2008 is an innovative software product that helps educational institutions develop richer Chinese programs by promoting autonomous learning as a complementary tool to teacher's lesson in class. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008)

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Student Recruitment Service Closes the gap on the Skills Shortage

Following the introduction of a new student recruitment service, IT training provider Computeach, is leading the way in plugging the IT skills gap. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008)

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Renowned Iowa Orthopaedic Surgeon, John Albright, MD, Inducted into Sports Medicine Hall of Fame

University of Iowa sports medicine specialist, John Albright, MD, will join three other physicians as a 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Hall of Fame inductee. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008)

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Reknowned Orthopaedic Surgeon to be Installed as President of Sports Medicine Society

Freddie H. Fu, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and founding medical director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) for Sports Medicine will be installed as the 37th president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) on Saturday, July 12, 2008, during the Society's Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida (July 10-13). (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008)

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New On-line Tutorials on Promoter Analysis Tools

Comprehensive tutorials on a set of promoter analysis tools (Melina II, Consensus, MDscan, Gibbs and MEME) enable researchers to quickly and effectively use these invaluable resources. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008)

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UK Reading Reform Foundation 2008 London Conference Date Announced

The United Kingdom Reading Reform Foundation today announced its 2008 London Conference is to be held at The Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, 25 - 27 Torrington Square, London WC1 on Friday 7th November 2008. The theme for this years conference will be 'Waste', where speakers will discuss how time and money is still being wasted in the UK education system and the resulting 'waste of lives' because of the use of non-science based methods of teaching reading. (PRWeb Jul 2, 2008)

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Renée Byer to Speak at Third-Annual Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference July 18-20

Renée Byer of The Sacramento Bee, 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Photography, will speak at the third-annual Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference sponsored by Western Washington University's Department of Journalism. (PRWeb Jul 1, 2008)

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Education More Important Than Immigration to Solve Nursing Shortage, Research Shows

New research shows that a majority of US healthcare consumers would be prepared to pay higher taxes to fund increased education facilities for American nurses. The study also sampled consumer attitudes to the recruitment of nurses from overseas. (PRWeb Jul 1, 2008)

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The American College To Offer First Course in Spanish: Techniques For Prospecting: Prospect or Perish

The American College, the nation's leading educator of financial services professionals, announced today that it will offer FA 200, Techniques for Prospecting: Prospect or Perish, a course from the institution's prestigious Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow, (LUTCF) and Financial Services Specialist (FSS) curricula in Spanish. This is the first time The College has made its world-class financial content available in Spanish within the United States. (PRWeb Jul 1, 2008)

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Looming Demographic Shift to Play Key Role in Future Student Recruitment Strategy

If you are a college admissions or student recruitment marketer who wants to learn how to successfully implement aggressive marketing strategies to embrace the changing student recruitment landscape to attract the 'right' student, read Media Logic's free paper - When the Tide Turns… now available for download at www.mlinc.com/tideturns. (PRWeb Jul 1, 2008)

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Newark?s Project Grad Receives Two Promise Prize Awards from SBLI USA President and CEO, Vikki L. Pryor

As president and CEO of SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc., Pryor is fulfilling her personal and professional mission to support underserved communities. (PRWeb Jul 1, 2008)

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Rapid Responder Receives First Endorsement for a Crisis Management System from the National Sheriffs? Association

The Rapid Responder® crisis management solution from Prepared Response, Inc. has received official endorsement from the National Sheriffs’ Association. This endorsement signifies that the National Sheriffs’ Association has thoroughly reviewed the company and the solution, and verified Rapid Responder’s effectiveness during emergencies through client and first responder interviews. (PRWeb Jul 1, 2008)

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