The Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF) Announces the Recipients of 2011 PMIEF-UMT Annual Scholarships

ARLINGTON, Virginia, November 1, 2011

The Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF) announced the recipients of the 2011-2012 PMIEF-UMT Annual Full Tuition Scholarship and Partial Tuition Scholarship recipients in its January 2012 issue of PMI Today (link http://www.pmitoday-digital.com/pmitodayopen/201201#pg18).

UMT would like to congratulate the following outstanding students from across the globe who were selected to receive our PMIEF-UMT academic scholarship:

Full Tuition Doctoral Scholarship:
Zachary Dietz from Maryland, USA

Full Tuition Master Scholarship:
Vesta Patrick from St. Georges, Grenada

Partial-Tuition Scholarships:
Akram Shehata from Doha Mesaieed, Qatar
Arvind Pal Matharu from Manitoba, Canada
Olufemi Alli from Lagos, Nigeria
Matthew Culley from New York, USA
Shayma Hajjiyah from Bayan, Kuwait
Michelle Garrett from Maryland, USA

In a letter from Dr. Lewis Gedansky, Executive Director, PMI Educational Foundation to Dr. Yanping Chen, UMT's President, he thanked UMT for its generous support and said, "This support not only helps to advance the project management profession, it also helps students achieve their dreams through education and builds a better prepared workforce of the future."

In 2009, UMT was recognized by the PMI as a Visionary Level Donor that donated more than one million US dollars to the PMIEF. Since April 2009, UMT has pledged three million dollars of university scholarships in support of the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF). For more information, visit http://www.pmi.org/pmief/scholarship/scholarships-UMT.asp.