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Automotive Aftermarket Scholarships for Career as an Automotive Aftermarket Technician

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Launched in 1996, the Global Automotive Aftermarket Symposium has quickly established itself as the premier educational event in the automotive aftermarket. This two-day annual event brings together leaders of industry event to hear presentations on the future strategic aftermarket.

All net proceeds from the Global Automotive Aftermarket Symposium will be used to fund scholarships for students pursuing careers in the automotive aftermarket. Since the program began, more than 1,500 scholarships have been granted.

While all students are encouraged to apply, the first priority in granting scholarships to those seeking a career in the automotive aftermarket, and the second priority is given to the sons and daughters of families in the sector.

Students who receive a scholarship and start a career as manager of automotive aftermarket is eligible for a scholarship to play after graduation from their program and after completing six months of employment in the automotive aftermarket.

GAAS Scholarship Eligibility Requirements

* Qualified applicants must either be a graduating high school senior or have graduated from high school.
* To receive a GAAS scholarship, applicants must be enrolled in a college-level program or an ASE/NATEF certified post secondary automotive technical program. NATEF is the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation. NATEF sets standards for automotive education program, and ASE – the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence, certifies schools, which meet these standards. See www.natef.org for a list of certified programs.

* Students enrolled in automotive oriented continuing education may also apply.
* Participants must attend a full-time program in the United States or Canada.
* Staff members of Global Automotive Aftermarket Symposium sponsoring associations, their family members, and former GAAS Scholarship recipients are not eligible.
* While anyone may apply, priority is given to students who plan a career in the automotive aftermarket, or who are sons and daughters of families who are in the automotive aftermarket.
* Students must completely fill out the GAAS application. All school transcripts including high school and post-secondary (if applicable) must be submitted with the application.
* At least one letter of recommendation from a non-family member must be submitted with the application.
* A 250-word essay on why the student believes they deserve to be a scholarship recipient must be submitted with the application.
Scholarship Application Deadline: March 31 2011
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The Freshman/Sophomore Scholarship Program , USA: Food Science and Food Technology

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The Freshman/Sophomore Scholarship program encourages outstanding students to pursue a B.S. at an IFT-approved university in the field of food science and food technology.
For sophomore scholarships, any freshman must intend to enroll or be enrolled in an approved food science/technology program, except as otherwise noted, who has maintained at least a 3.0 GPA (A=4.0) for the first term of study, and who has the recommendation of the department head.
Scholarships are available to Freshmen with a 3.0 GPA or above, pursuing a curriculum in food science or food technology, and intending to enroll or be enrolled in an IFT-approved university.  Scholarships are available to Sophomores with a 3.0 GPA or above currently enrolled in an IFT-approved university pursuing a food science or food technology degree. (for purposes of this document, approved program means the program meets the “IFT Undergraduate Education Standards for Degrees in Food Science,” as determined by the Committee on Higher Education).

Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 March 2011

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Open PhD and Postdoc Positions, Exascale Information Management, Fribourg-Switzerland

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The eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg has several openings for Ph.D. students and Postdocs starting now. XI is a brand new lab focusing on creating next-generation information management infrastructures for scientific, semantic, and social data.

We are looking for highly qualified individuals with a MSc or a PhD in Computer Science (or related areas), interested in inventing the future of information management for new application domains (such as for eScience, the Social Web, or the Data Web). Candidates must have strong analytical and programming skills, a good command of the English language, and a genuine interest in designing, building and publishing innovative approaches and systems to manage new types of data in very large-scale environments.

Salary and social benefits are extremely competitive (salaries start at 41K CHF for new Ph.D. students and 81K CHF for postdocs, 1CHF=1USD). XI is supported by a generous grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and offers top-notch working conditions and cutting-edge hardware infrastructures. The PhD student or PostDoc will be able to join existing projects but also to establish his or her own research direction with the help of the other lab members. Current projects include building main-memory systems bridging the gap between transactional and analytical tools (project in partnership with MIT and the Hasso Plattner Institute), designing new algorithms to mine very large Web logs (in cooperation with VeriSign), and devising new techniques to store and process very large scientific arrays (with MIT, as part of the SciDB project http://www.scidb.org ). New projects focusing on the Social Web and the Data Web will begin shortly, in partnership with leading companies and universities in Europe.

The lab is hosted by the Faculty of Science at the University of Fribourg. The faculty is currently experiencing a formidable expansion and recently received the largest-ever donation made to a Swiss university. Ideally situated in the heart of Switzerland and at the foot of the Alps, the city of Fribourg lies on the linguistic border between the French and German-speaking parts of the country. In addition to being recognized as a first-class location for business and education, Fribourg is also a delightful and exceptional place to live and is often ranked first for quality of life in Western Switzerland.

Scholarship Application Deadline: Contact Employer

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