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Fifteen students, including one from ORHS, named as Haslam Scholars at UT

Posted at 6:27 pm May 30, 2016
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Oumar Souleymane Diallo

Oumar Souleymane Diallo

Fifteen students, including one from Oak Ridge High School, have been named to the 2016 cohort of Haslam Scholars at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. There are 14 students from Tennessee and one from North Carolina.

The ORHS student is Oumar Souleymane Diallo.

A student from Hardin Valley Academy, Sophia Cui, is also among the incoming students.

The Haslam Scholars Program is UT’s premier four-year scholarship program. Each year, the program admits 15 first-year students from the university’s Chancellor’s Honors Program and supports them with the university’s most prestigious and generous named scholarships. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Chancellor’s Honors Program, Dee Haslam, Hardin Valley Academy, Haslam Scholars, Haslam Scholars Program, Jim Haslam, Jimmy Haslam, Natalie Haslam, Oak Ridge High School, ORHS, Oumar Souleymane Diallo, Pilot Corp., Pilot Flying J, scholarship program, scholarships, Sophia Cui, University of Tennessee

Lawler Scholarship helps student with study abroad; applications accepted

Posted at 12:20 am September 8, 2015
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Daniel Colburn at Cliffs of Dover

Daniel Colburn is pictured above at Cliffs of Dover. (Submitted photo)

 

By Jessica Steed

Daniel Colburn absorbed history and archeology as he studied thermodynamics and circuits during a study abroad program in London this summer.

Colburn, a junior at the University of Tennessee, was awarded a $2,000 Dr. Adrian R. Lawler Exchange Student Scholarship in the fall of 2014, which supported his participation in the five-week UT engineering program in London, his first experience abroad. In the Chancellor’s Honors Program, Colburn is majoring in mechanical engineering, with a minor in business and maintainability and reliability.

“We partnered those academic experiences with some real world experiences outside the classroom,” Colburn said of the London study abroad program. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Chancellor’s Honors Program, circuits, Daniel Colburn, Dr. Adrian R. Lawler Exchange Student Scholarship, Education Foundation, Jessica Steed, Lawler Scholarship, London, mechanical engineering, Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, study abroad, thermodynamics, University of Tennessee, UT

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