Urban Science Announces $1 Million Endowment to Wayne State For Col. Gregory Gadson Scholarship For Wounded Warriors
Award provides veterans with up to $50,000 annually for engineering, entrepreneurial education at Wayne State University DETROIT, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ­Global automotive retail consulting firm, Urban Science, announced today that it has committed to building a $1 million endowment to support the Col.

Historic Conference Held by The Black Ivy Alumni League
NEW YORK and MIAMI, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Black Ivy Alumni League  (BIAL) the premier organization bringing together black students and alumni from all eight Ivy League schools, is hosting its inaugural National Conference entitled "A 21st Century Re-education" at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida September 27- 30, 2012.  The conference will bring together 1,500 alumni plus 100 corporations, non-profit organizations and entrepreneurs looking to hire and market to the growing sector of black, Ivy League alumni around the world. The BIAL conference will focus on four pillars; scholarship, entrepreneurship leadership, and politics, and will discuss how these four elements shape what it means to be a black professional in ...

Sharing the history of the Lavonia-Carnegie Library
A hundred years ago, the good people of Lavonia - a sleepy Southern railroad town in 1909 - petitioned Pennsylvania steel baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to build their town a library.