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Microsoft is excited to be offering more than a half-million dollars in scholarships for the 2010-2011 academic year. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2010.

The American Society for Enology and Viticulture annually awards numerous scholarships to students pursuing a degree in enology, viticulture, or in a curriculum emphasizing a science basic to the wine and grape industry. The awards are not in predetermined amounts and may vary from year to year.

The New York Farm Bureau is encouraging high school seniors who have been involved with agriculture and plan on continuing studies in this field to apply for the 2010 New York Farm Bureau Agricultural Youth Scholarship. Students applying must have a family Farm Bureau membership or a Student Farm Bureau membership (a membership application may be included with scholarship enclosures). Students are required to complete an application and submit a brief essay answering the question, “If you had the power to change something in your community or on your farm, what would you change and why?”

Your opinions on how tech-savvy your professors are differ quite a bit from the instructors’ opinions of their own technological effectiveness in the classroom, according to a survey released this week by CDW-G, an education technology provider. According to the survey,  which was collected via a nationally representative samples of students and faculty members at two- and four-year public and private colleges , students consider themselves much more technologically adept than their instructors, which may not be all that surprising: About 75 percent of professors said that their school “understands how they use or want to use technology ,” while 32 percent of students said that their college was not preparing them well enough in the field of technology to give them useful skills for the job market. About 67 percent of professors are comfortable with their own professional development in the field of technology, while only 38 percent of students said they felt their instructors were sufficiently tech-savvy

It’s right out of NOVA or the scifi channel: Microsoft is sponsoring the 2009 Space Elevator Conference , a four-day long event with movies, presentations, and workshops where engineers and entrepreneurs gather to discuss the technical and logistical issues of building an actual elevator to space. “It’s bringing top people around to present ideas from a research standpoint and a business standpoint,” said conference spokesperson Melinda Young. “We’re talking about a way to supplement travel to space by rockets.” While the idea of a space elevator has been around for about 100 years, the idea became more feasible by the 1991 discovery of “carbon nanotubes,” tiny atoms that can come together and make a cylinder.

PhD Studentship in Solids Mechanics and Composite Materials, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Please kindly mention ScholarshipNet when applying for this position The Mechanical Engineering Department of École Polytechnique de Montréal is recruiting one Ph.D. student in the field of Solids…

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Share your creative interpretation of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. All mediums are welcome: photography, drawing, illustration, painting, digital art, sculpture, whatever you’d like! Choose one of the elements or all four. Your imagination could win you $750 cash or scholarship