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Metro Atlanta high school senior named Presidential Scholar

A graduating senior in Forsyth County has just been named a Presidential Scholar. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Vineeth Sendilraj, 17, had just aced a very tough Advanced Placement exam, and the good news kept on coming. “Wow! That’s crazy. I called my mom. Dude! No way. I just got the scholarship,” Sendilraj […]

Meet the Deseret News/KSL 2024 General Sterling Scholar

Dallin Soukup’s aptitude for math was evident at a young age. As an 8-year-old, he was mentally calculating squares of three-digit numbers. At age 11, he received his amateur radio license and bounced his call sign off the moon to calculate its distance from Earth. While in eighth grade, he got a 5 on the […]

LBJ scholar says passage of legislation monumental, work incomplete

Feb. 3—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Daniel Perkins recalls growing up in a Greater Johnstown of the 1950s and 1960s that felt safe and friendly to him, but also divided, with areas he knew to avoid because of the color of his skin. It wasn’t usually confrontational, violent or institutional racism, which existed elsewhere in the United […]