{"id":61815,"date":"2014-10-03T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=61815"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:53:59","slug":"johnson-scholarship-foundation-selects-1st-ucf-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/johnson-scholarship-foundation-selects-1st-ucf-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Welcomes 1st Johnson Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"
海角直播 biomedical sciences majors Daniel Salas and Ekaterina Karelova are the first UCF recipients of a new scholarship from the Johnson Scholarship Foundation geared toward DirectConnect to UCF students. The new scholarships are from an endowment fund created by a partnership between the UCF Foundation and the foundations of Eastern Florida State College, Lake-Sumter State College, Seminole State College and Valencia College.<\/p>\n
Salas and Karelova started their first semester at UCF this fall and plan to attend medical school after their 2016 graduation.<\/p>\n
Salas, who is from Miami, attended Valencia\u2019s Osceola campus<\/a> and will continue classes at UCF\u2019s shared campus there. Careers in physical therapy or cardiovascular surgery are two areas of his interest.<\/p>\n Karelova, who is from the country of Georgia, attended Valencia\u2019s East campus<\/a> and will continue classes at the main UCF campus, Karelova moved to the United States on an international study program when she was 16. She aspired to be a journalist and received an Associate in Business degree from Everest 海角直播. Soon after, she changed her career goals and applied to Valencia to pursue a career as an anesthesiologist after medical school.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were other options, but DirectConnect to UCF was the best option possible,\u201d said Karelova about deciding on her plan for college.<\/p>\n The UCF College of Medicine at Lake Nona is among the medical schools the two scholars intend on applying to. Johnson Scholars are a cohort of students chosen by the partner colleges. Once selected, they will receive the scholarship until graduation as long as they continue to meet the criteria set by the school. Recipients of the scholarship are deemed \u201cJohnson Scholars,\u201d and throughout their college careers they will have special program requirements that emphasize leadership development.<\/p>\n The Johnson Scholarship Foundation is a national, private foundation with a mission to assist deserving people in achieving higher education and a belief in education as a means to help people succeed in life.<\/p>\n Each of the four partner state colleges are responsible for raising $500,000 that the Johnson Scholarship Foundation will match for a total of $1 million for the individual colleges to disburse while the scholars earn their associate degrees.<\/p>\n