Three Rivers, Millstone offering scholarships

Three Rivers Community College and Millstone Station are offering 16 full scholarships for the nuclear engineering technology degree program. The application deadline for students entering the 2012 fall semester is Feb. 15.

The scholarships cover the full cost of tuition, books and fees for a two-year associate degree program, starting the fall 2012 semester.

Additionally, students will receive a guaranteed $50 per month stipend during the nine-month academic year. Scholarship students will also have a 12-week paid internship/coop experience at the Millstone Nuclear Station in Waterford during the summer between their first and second academic year.

For more information about the scholarship program, call professor James Sherrard, nuclear program chairman and scholarship program coordinator, at (860) 885-2393. For scholarship application forms, contact the Three Rivers Admissions Office at (860) 383-5260 or download an application from www.trcc.commnet.edu/Div_StudentServices/PR/news/news_online_scholarhips.shtml