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Four Lincoln students were among 32 students who received scholarships at the National Association of Black Accountants’ Eastern region Student Conference (ERSC) on Oct. 4-7 in Bethesda, MD.
The scholarship recipients were: Chilima Chola, who received a $1,000 scholarship from Deloitte, Igory Nnani, $1,000 from Grant Thorton, LLP, Trevor Kamhunga, $1,000 from PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and Maxwell Moomba, a $5000 from Eastern Region of NABA, Inc.
A group of thirteen Lincoln students along with Faculty Advisor and Professor Kennie Edwards joined more than 650 other students from across the country at the annual conference, which offered professional seminars and interviews as well as networking opportunities with fellow students, recruiters and professionals.
Aside from the four recipients, they included: Oliwatosin Aladekomo, Terrical Bellamy, Brittany Beverly, Cherica Collie, Trevor Davenport, Oluwarotimi Ibidapo, Kensy Jean-Claude, Kevin Tennet, Shantal Wynter.
NABA, whose mission is to address the professional needs of its members while developing and inspiring future leaders who will shape tomorrow’s accounting and finance positions, has established a series of career development programs that serve its members at the national, regional, and local levels.
Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, founded in 1854 as the nation’s first historically Black degree-granting institution, combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly-technological and global society. Today, the University enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women. Internationally recognized for preparing and producing world class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Lillian Fishburne, the first African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, Langston Hughes, the noted poet, Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria.