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Applications Must Be Postmarked by March 1, 2012.
The Northern Plains Eye Foundation (NPEF), whose mission is to promote eye health for the people of the Northern Plains through education, research and community service, will be awarding $1,000 Health-Care Education Scholarships for the 2012-2013 academic year.
NPEF’s Health-Care Education Scholarship Program was launched in 2005 in recognition of the need for future health-care and eye-care professionals in our region. Since the program’s inaugural year, NPEF has awarded sixty-four Health-Care Education Scholarships totaling $60,500 to students pursuing full-time post-secondary health-care studies.
NPEF will again bestow the Dr. Paul L. Zimmerman Memorial Health-Care Education Scholarship to the most distinguished scholar. This award, presented to its first recipient, Steven A. Turpin, in 2011, is awarded in honor of Dr. Paul L. Zimmerman, a member of NPEF Board of Directors and Ophthalmologist with Black Hills Regional Eye Institute, who lost a brave fight with malignant melanoma of his right eye earlier this year.
NPEF’s Health-Care Education Scholarships are available to high school seniors pursuing full-time health-care related studies at a college, university or technical institution. All health-care related courses of study will be considered, but preference will be given to those focusing on eye-related fields such as Ophthalmology, Optometry, Optician, or Ophthalmology/Optometry Technician. Students must be residents of the Foundation's service area, which extends approximately 300 miles in each direction from Rapid City, SD, and includes all of South Dakota, northwest Nebraska, northeast Wyoming, southeast Montana, and southwest North Dakota.
Scholarships are awarded based on overall academic merit, extracurricular and health-care related activities, leadership, letters of recommendation, and planned health-care or eye-related course of study. Students must have a minimum unweighted GPA of 3.8 and a minimum ACT of 28 in order to apply. Scholarship application materials are available through high school guidance counselors, on-line at www.npef.org/scholarship.asp, or by phoning (605) 716-6733 to request a application information be mailed or emailed to you. Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2012.
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