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eBusiness Center Awards Seven Scholarships

The Rollins Center for eBusiness recently awarded $1,000 scholarships to seven Marriott School students for the upcoming Fall 2007 Semester.

The scholarships are awarded to undergraduate and graduate students, who are likely to pursue e-business careers, need financial aid to graduate in a timely manner, and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Preference is given to students who have started their own business or are studying technology and/or entrepreneurship.

“Part of our mission as a center is to prepare students to be business leaders in a networked and digitized world,” says Jeff Brown, program manager. “The eBusiness Scholarship recipients are the model for the type of leaders that we hope to produce. They are individuals of exceptional character that excel both in and outside the classroom. They exude a spirit of entrepreneurship and will be the leaders who create and advance innovations that change the way we do business.”

Brown says the center usually awards five scholarships each semester, but this time was an exception.

“This semester we decided to award seven because of the large number of great applicants we received,” Brown says. “A total number of eighty-two students applied for Fall 2007, which is outstanding!”

As part of the application, students described in an essay the online business classes they have taken or will take and their work and volunteer experience associated with the field.

The recipients for the E-business scholarships are Brandon Ausman, an MBA student from Charlotte, North Carolina, Derron Bishop, an MBA student from Saratoga Springs, Utah, James Gaskin, an MISM student from Ramona, California, Daniel Sarver, an MBA student from Liberty, Missouri, Jenny Shen, an MISM student from Tainan, Taiwan, Samiuela Toluta’u, an MISM student from Laie, Hawaii, and Jeremy Wright, an MBA student, from Manassas, Virginia.

“Receiving the scholarship, especially after seeing many high-caliber and deserving students at BYU, motivates me to work hard in school and to live up to my potential afterward,” says Bishop. “It also motivates me to find ways to give back to the eBusiness Center and its associated students and faculty.”