Chester, Pa.
– Widener University will receive $79,000 from the W. W. Smith Charitable Trust
to be used for student scholarships during the 2012-13 academic year, the
university announced.
The
university will award the Smith Scholars Program scholarships – ranging from
$2,000 to $5,000 – to full-time undergraduate students in good academic
standing.
In addition,
all students selected for the Scholars Program must be residents of the
Delaware Valley, including Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties and
the cities of Camden and Philadelphia.
“Widener has
enjoyed a very long relationship with the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, and we
are pleased to again be a recipient of funds from the Trust’s outstanding
scholarship programs,” said Widener University President James T. Harris III.
“These scholarship programs have helped hundreds of Widener University students
over the years to achieve their goal of a college education and pursue their
dreams.”
Based in
West Conshohocken, Pa., the W. W. Smith Charitable Trust is a private
foundation established through the will of William Wikoff Smith. The Trust is
specifically focused on areas involving basic needs for food, clothing and
shelter; supplementing higher education scholarship programs; and basic medical
research primarily in heart disease, cancer and AIDS.
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