Monroe grad gets Fulbright grant: Benjamin Savitch, a Monroe High School graduate, has received a Fulbright grant to Norway to study biology from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Savitch will conduct brain cancer research in Bergen, Norway, during the 2005-06 academic year. He is a 2005 graduate of Arizona State University and will attend Yale Medical School upon his return to the United States in September 2006. Savitch is one of more than 1,000 U.S. students traveling abroad through the Fulbright Program, named for the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas.
Scholarship won: Snohomish County Christian High School graduate Rylee Wallace was one of 25 college students in the country to receive an $8,000 scholarship award from the Johnson Controls Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Johnson Controls Inc. Wallace plans to major in business and design at Seattle Pacific University.
Columbia students test well: Columbia College students at the Everett and Marysville campuses posted the second-highest scores as a group on a business major-related test compared with Columbia College’s 19 campuses across the country. The group had a mean score of 157.7 on the ETS Business Major Field Test, which is above the national average. The seven local students who took the test are: Debra Bailey, Shawn Cole, David Dukes, Dean Leach, Dennis Morgan, John Olson and Abbi Rudolph.
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