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posted Jul 19, 2004
CASS Scholarships for Study at Mt. Hood
Community College
Seven students from Honduras have been studying during
the past year at Mt. Hood Community
College in Gresham, Oregon. The students, who are members of the
Cooperative
Association of Scholarship for States (CASS), include Brenda
Gabarrete, Neftaly Carcia, Nery Guardado, Gerzon Omar Bautista, Pedro
Lidio Fernandez, Olvin Vasquez, and Marcia Velazques.
posted Feb 11, 2004
Cuba to Offer 62 Scholarships to Honduran
Students
The
Government of Cuba will offer 40 scholarships to Hondurans to study
medicine at the University of Havana. Another 22 scholarships will be
provided to Hondurans interested in studying engineering, languages,
jurisprudence, and biology in Cuba.
posted Jan 31, 2004
UNICEF Volunteers Committee to Offer Academic
Scholarships
The Volunteers Committee of
UNICEF will offer full and partial
scholarships for primary and secondary school education, as well as
technical careers, to students of low economic means. The
“Estudie
Gratis”
scholarship program will be sponsored by several institutions, including
the Instituto
Tecnológico de Latinoamérica, Instituto San Pedro, Escuela e Instituto
Brassavola, Instituto de Locución Primero de Diciembre, Jardín de Niños
Jean Peaget,
and others.
Miriam
Hidalgo de Rosenthal
oversees the Volunteers Committee.
posted Mar 10, 2002
Cuba Awards 70
Scholarships to Study Medicine
Another 70 Honduran students received five-year
scholarships to study medicine in Cuba. Each of
the scholarships is worth approximately $65,000.
This third wave of students will join 502 fellow
Hondurans already enrolled in the Latin
American School of Medical Sciences in Havana.
The students come from poor families in different
departments of Honduras. None of them are over 25
years of age.
posted Jan 30, 2002
Mexico Offers
Post-Graduate Study Scholarships
The Embassy of Mexico in Honduras
announced that the Government
of Mexico is offering post-graduate study
scholarships for Honduran students who would like
to attend universities in Mexico. Applications
must be submitted by July 1, 2002. For more
information about this program, please see http://becas.sre.gob.mxor
e-mail becas@sre.gob.mx
or infobecas@sre.gob.mx.
posted Sep 12, 2001
Taiwan Offers 25 Study
Scholarships
The Government
of Taiwan is offering 25 scholarships to
Honduran students insterested in studying in
Taiwan. Fields of study would include mechanics,
electrical engineering, electronics, civil
engineering, design, and sewing. Candidates
should be high school or college graduates
between 20 to 40 years of age, with fluency in
either English or Chinese. All scholarships would
cover the cost of study, travel, and room and
board. The Government of Taiwan would also
provide seed money to each student, upon
completion of their studies, to help start up his/her
own business. The agreement to offer the program,
designed to encourage entrepreneurship in
Honduras, was signed by the Taiwanese ambassador
to Honduras, Chang Ching-Ying, and
representatives of Honduras' Ministry of Industry
and Commerce, Oscar Kaffati; the Consejo Hondureño
de la Empresa Privada (COHEP), Juliette Handal;
the Asociación Nacional de Industriales (ANDI),
Felipe Peraza; and the Federación de Cámaras de
Comercio e Industrias de Honduras (FEDECAMARA),
José Danilo Romero.
posted Aug 22, 2001
Taiwan Awards Five Study
Scholarships
The Government
of Taiwan selected five Honduran students to
receive scholarships to study Chinese in Taiwan
for one year. The scholarships would cover the
cost of tuition, roundtrip airline tickets, and a
monthly living allowance of $600. The students
include Samuel Norales, Rafael Leiva Valladares,
Letty Suyapa Trejo, Mirja Eng, and Karla Johana
Padilla.
posted Sep 11, 2000
Students Receive Fulbright
Scholarhips
Seven Honduran students received Fulbright
scholarships this year, including Rosalie Dickerman, Danilo
Fajardo, Jorge Ramos, Valerie Paredes, Gabriela Paz, Carlos
Sánchez, Rigoberto
Merino, Fredy Cardona, Carla Reyes, Maximinio Rodríguez, and Luis
Zerón. The scholarships are
for one- or two-year Masters programs in areas
such as business, archaeology, civil engineering, achitecture, agribusiness, and computer sciences.
Last year, six Honduran students were selected as
Fulbright scholars. José Rafel Rivera went to
study law at the University of Chicago; Zenio Pagán,
business administration at Western Illinois
University; Lucía Durón López, law at
Georgetown; Roque Barrientos, agricultural
economy at Purdue; René Serrano, environmental
planning at Arizona State; and Chantal Hasbun,
elementary education at Ball State.
posted Apr 18, 2000
US Embassy Accepting
Applications for Fulbright Scholarships
The US Embassy in Honduras
announced that it is accepting applications from
Hondurans interested in Fulbright, Fulbright-Laspau,
and Hubert Humphrey scholarships. The
scholarships would be for Masters studies.
Applicants should be fluent in English and have
an academic average of 80% and two years of work
experience (2-3 years for those who have studied
in the US. There will be an emphasis on the
social sciences as an area of study. The deadline
for applications is May 30th. The careers of
medicine, orthodontics, chemisty, and pharmacy
are not eligible. Professionals interested in the
Fulbright-Laspau should be university professors,
possess a good academic record, have a Bachelors
degree, show proof of employment at their
university, and be fluent in English. The
deadline for applications is June 1st. Again, the
careers of medicine, orthodontics, chemisty, and
pharmacy are not eligible. For contact leads, go
to Asociacion
Fulbright de Honduras.
posted Mar 23, 2000
Taiwan Offers Study
Scholarships
Taiwan's ambassador to Honduras,
Ching Yeng Chan, announced a scholarships program
for hundreds of Honduras who would like study in
Taiwan. The scholarships would be either for
advanced studies and professional training or
simply to learn the Mandarin language. The
duration of the scholarships would vary from 1-3
months to a year or more. In some cases, students
would receive at least $700 a month. Interested
applicants should inquire with Honduras' Ministry
of Education or Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
posted Feb 23, 2000
IIE Receives Grant Renewal
from MaCarthur Foundation
The Institute
of International Education's (IIE) Graduate
Fellowships in the Social Sciences program
recently received a three-year grant renewal from
the John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The
program, jointly funded by the Edward E. Ford
Foundation, William
and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and MacArthur,
offers fellowships to Mexicans and Central
Americans to pursue graduate study worldwide.
Begun in 1990, the program has trained over 500
professionals in social science fields. Most
remain active via an alumni listserv and
newsletter. Recruitment and selection of
fellows are handled by Alan Adelman and Maria
Teresa San Roman of IIE's Mexico City office,
which also handles alumni affairs. Fellowship
administration is handled by Dan Heyduk, Patricia
Link and Sandra Cervera of the Scholarship and
Training Division at IIE/NY.
posted Dec 14, 1999
Rotary Club of Grand
Cayman Awards Trade Study Scholarship
As part of its International
Service program, directed by Benny Moore, the
Rotary Club of
Grand Cayman will be working with the
National Institute of Professional Training to
award a 2-year scholarship to study a trade, such
as electronics or automotive mechanics that will
allow students to break out of poverty. This is a
joint project with the Rotary Club of La Ceiba.
The project's chair is Buddy Wood.
posted Dec 3, 1999
Higher Education
Partners for Development
The Higher
Education Partners for Development in
Honduras is a project to develop a long-term
collaborative linkage among Purdue University,
Cornell
University and the Panamerican
School of Agriculture (Zamorano) in Honduras.
The goal is to develop working groups of faculty
focused on the important issues of development in
Honduras. The partnership will sustain their long-term
relationships by securing funding for projects
that capitalize on their own professional
interests. Funding by AID/ ALO will
provide the resources to initiate these working
groups so that they may address the critical
development issues facing Honduras. The rationale
of the partnership is to meet critical
development needs in Honduras and elsewhere in
Latin America by: (1) Stimulating economic
entrepreneurship; (2) Increasing productivity in
sustainable agricultural and natural resource
systems; (3) Strengthening community-based
development through education effort; and (4)
Building human resources through higher education.
posted Dec 3, 1999
Cornell-Zamorano Joint MPS/Tropical
Agriculture
Under a joint program between Cornell
University and the Escuela Agrícola
Panamericana (EAP) at Zamorano in Honduras,
an MPS degree is offered in tropical agriculture.
The first two semesters of this program (August
through May) are spent in residence at Cornell,
and then two months are spent engaged in
intensive courses at EAP to prepare for an
internship. Students are located in a situation
where they will work with a private agribusiness,
or with a government or nongovernment agency for
about six months. After completing their
internships, the students return to Zamorano to
complete and defend a thesis based on the
internship project. More information about this
joint program is available at an on-line
brochure. Also in conjunction with EAP, an
annual award is made from the G.
Burke Wright Fund, which enables a student or
faculty member from Cornell or EAP to visit the
other institution, strengthening links between
the two. In addition, Cornell and EAP have
received a grant from USAID under its University
Development Linkages Project to support more
interaction and synergy between the two
institutions through 1998.
posted Dec 1, 1999
Walton International Scholarship Program
The Walton
International Scholarship Program at John Brown University,
Harding
University and the University of the
Ozarks is provided by the Walton family of
Bentonville, Arkansas. In the hope of promoting
peace, prosperity and goodwill throughout Central
America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) and
Mexico, the Waltons provide 60 full scholarships
each year for undergraduate study to Central
American students. The scholarship provides full
financial support for each student. This
financial support includes tuition, fees, room,
board, personal spending allowance and travel.
Students are provided rooms on campus housing and
are provided meals in the school cafeteria. Cynthia
Salgado of Honduras received her four-year
scholarship in 1996.
posted Aug 16, 1999
Georgia Rotary Student Program Sponsors
Scholarship at University of Georgia
The Rotary Club of Tegucigalpa is sponsoring a one-year
scholarship, offered by the Georgia Rotary Student Program, Inc., for
study on the university level in the state of Georgia during the
2000-2001 academic year. The grant covers all scholastic costs
including tuition, books, college provided room, food, and gives $125
three times during the year to cover incidental expenses. However, it
does not cover travel or medical insurance. Students in all fields of
study are eligible except medicine and dentistry. Applicants must be
between 18 and 24 on September 1, 1999, single, and an undergraduate
or graduate student. Applicants who have previously studied in the US
for more than four months are not eligible. Moreover, students must
have a 90% GPA and need high scores on the SAT, TOEFL, GRE or GMAT
exams. The deadline for application is October 1. For more
information, contact Silvia Reyes at tel. 221-4060.
posted Aug 7, 1999
Bemposta Sponsors 100 Children to Study
in Spain
One hundred Honduran children who were victims of
Hurricane Mitch will travel to study in Spain. The children, ages 10
to 14, will have all their expenses paid by the non-governmental
organization Bemposta of Orense, Spain. The first group of 40 children
will leave Honduras in September.
Caritas of Honduras maintains a working relationship with Bemposta.
posted Feb 18, 2000
Spain Offers Scholarships
for Advanced Studies
The Spanish Agency for
International Cooperation (AECI) announced its
scholarships program for 2000-2001. The program is aimed
at graduate students and professionals in Honduras. It
would provide scholarships for advanced studies in
Spain. Applications should be submitted by March 31,
2000 at the Embassy of Spain in the Matamoros
neighborhood of Tegucigalpa or at AECI in the Palmira
neighborhood of the city.
posted Jan 23, 2000
Honduras Peace Scholarship Project I/II
The US Agency for International
Development-funded Honduras Peace Scholarship
(HOPS) I and II Project was designed to address the
human resource needs of Honduras to implement programs
and policies for the nation's social, political and
economic development. The project recruited
principally socially and economically disadvantaged
leaders from less developed areas of the country. In
Phase I (1986-93), the Academy for Educational Development
(AED) prepared, placed and monitored 415 students in
associate, bachelor's and master's level academic
programs throughout the United States; an additional
240 short-term trainees received technical training in
fields such as primary education, watershed
management, nutrition, municipal development and
small/micro-enterprise management. In Phase II of the
Project (1992-96), the Academy placed and monitored an
additional 65 students in primarily master's level
programs, and trained 178 short-term trainees in
fields ranging from banking to vocational-technical
education and labor economics/workforce training. An
active alumni association in Honduras has created a
network among returned trainees that allows them to
continue sharing ideas and supporting each other.
posted Jan 12, 2000
United World Colleges Provides Scholarships
United World Colleges announced the inclusion of Honduras in
its scholarships program. The program involves "groups of young
people, mostly aged 16 to 19, representing more than 100 national and
ethnic cultures, living and studying together for two years on a
residential campus, getting to know and to better understand their
differences and similarities". The announcement was made by the
organization’s representative for Latin America, Pedro Stoyle. In the
past 35 years, United World Colleges program has graduated 20,000
students from 160 countries with international bachelor’s degrees from
650 universities in 80 countries. This year, two students from
Honduras will be selected for the program by a Honduran national
committee... for study in Venezuela and Hong Kong. Plans call for
awarding another 20 scholarships to Honduran students during the next
two years for study in countries such as Canada, the US, Great
Britain, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, India, and Singapore. Each
scholarship covers the cost of lodging, food, and supplies.
posted Sep 1996
Texaco Exploration Awards Scholarship
In 1993, Gerardo Bueso,
environmental science student from Honduras,
received a scholarship from Texaco Exploration,
Inc. in Honduras with an overall grade point
average of about 3.4. Bueso was accepted to Louisiana State
University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In 1994, he was granted the Joseph W. Freeland
International Scholarship from LSU's College of
Agriculture.
posted Aug 1995
University of Wisconsin Vega Scholarship
Awarded
Five students from South America have received
Milwaukee Foundation-Victor Vega Educational
Scholarships. The grant, established by Victor
Vega, a former Milwaukeean originally from Peru,
helps students from South America at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Students who
received the $1,667 awards, given on the basis of
financial need and academic achievement, are:
Carlos Azcorra-Valdez (Mexico), a graduate
student in civil engineering; Diego Caceres (Peru),
a sophomore in engineering; Leticia Gonzalez (Venezuela),
a junior in political science; Leon Chang Shik (Venezuela),
a junior in geography and Spanish; and Abril
Martinez (Honduras), who is completing a teaching
certificate in French and Spanish. The awards
were announced by the Office
of International Studies and Programs.
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