Mamasa Camara, C’2015 is the first Spelman Gates Cambridge scholar, and the only African American and HBCU graduate among this year’s 35 U.S. scholarship recipients.
Started from the Bottom: JSU Freshman Overcomes Hardship, Becomes Gates Scholar
Tears flowed from Adrienna Williams after learning she was selected as a Gates scholar and more recently while explaining that her then-single mother once worried whether she did enough as a parent for her children in their poverty-stricken Yazoo community. Williams, a Jackson State University freshman biology major with ambitions of becoming a physician, candidly […]
Bill Gates Scholarship 2015: Funding Through Graduation
Bill Gates Scholarship 2015 for minority students is now open for applications. Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the scholars program each year selects 1,000 outstanding students to receive a good-through-graduation scholarship. Selected students can use the funds at any college or university to complete under graduation in any discipline area […]