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Daily Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Lifestyle
Monday, November 5, 2001
Scholarships available for women and minorities
Scholarships are available at Texas Woman's University to women and minorities
interested in degrees in computer science, engineering or mathematics.
Through the Women In Engineering (WIN) program at TWU, female students
can earn a degree at TWU and at Texas Tech University, Texas A&M University
at College Station or the University of Texas at Dallas.
WIN students have two degree programs open to them.
The first is the 3+2/dual degree program, in which students attend TWU
for three years and then continue their education at either UT-Dallas or
A&M. After completing the program, students receive a B.S. degree in
mathematics from TWU and a B.S. degree in engineering from the partner
university.
The second WIN option allows students to earn a specially designed B.S.
degree from TWU in either computer science or mathematics, then move into
an engineering graduate program at Texas Tech, UT-Dallas or A&M.
Eligible WIN participants receive paid summer internships at Texas Intruments
Inc. Students in the WIN program also are matched with a female peer, faculty
and industry mentors.
Applicants for the WIN program must be women majoring in computer science
or mathematics. Entering freshmen must have a minimum ACT score of 27,
or an SAT score of 1,160 with a 600 in math. Sophomores, juniors and seniors
interested in the program must have a 3.3 grade-point-average. Once admitted,
participants must maintain a 3.3 GPA.
For information on the WIN program, contact Cathy Banks at 940-898-2769,
or 1-800-860-2237, or at cbanks@twu.edu.
A second scholarship program, the Computer Science, Engineering and
Mathematics (CSEM) Scholars Program, assists low-income, academically talented
women and minorities majoring in computer science, math or engineering.
Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for scholarship of $3,125
per year for up to two years.
CSEM participants are matched with peer, faculty and industry mentors
and are eligible for internships and student assistantships. Program participants
also will receive career counseling, training in job search skills and
assistance in applying for graduate study.
Entering freshmen interested in CSEM must have a minimum score of 20
on the ACT or 950 on the SAT, and be in the top 25 percent of his or her
academic class. Sophomores, juniors or seniors must have a minimum overall
3.0 GPA. Entering graduate students must have a minimum 1,000 on the GRE
or an undergraduate GPA of 3.25.
For more information on the CSEM program, contact Melinda Miller Holt
at 940-898-2168, 940-898-2166 or at mholt@twu.edu.
Texas Instruments Inc. has pledged a total of $200,000 over two years
for WIN and CSEM scholarships.
Tea planned for Outstanding teacher
The Reeves County Retired School Personnel is very proud of Alice Wein,
the 2002, Outstanding Elementary Teacher of Region 18, Texas State Teachers
Association.
The group is honoring her with a Tea, today from 3:30-5:30 p.m., at
the Senior Center.
Pecos Enterprise
York M. "Smokey" Briggs, Publisher
Division of Buckner News Alliance, Inc.
324 S. Cedar St., Pecos, TX 79772
Phone 915-445-5475, FAX 915-445-4321
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