Syed Maghrabi Scholarship
Application Form
Applications accepted until 4:30 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2008. Scholarship applicants will be notified by Friday, October 10, 2008 of the results.
HSLI will award $1500.00 in scholarships for the 2008 annual conference in Tinley Park, IL on November 6-7, 2008.
- Applicants must be current members of HSLI (2008 dues paid) who have not attended a regional or national conference within the last 12 months paid for by their employing institution.
- Applicant must live more than 50 miles from conference location to apply for “Registration and Hotel Reimbursement.” *Applicants must write a short essay entitled, “I would like a Syed Maghrabi Conference Scholarship because...”
- Each scholarship recipient must write an article for the next HSLI newsletter about their conference experience.
- If awarded a scholarship, hotel arrangements are the sole responsibility of the recipient. Reimbursement for hotel room expense is processed upon submission of hotel receipt and confirmation of receipt newsletter article by HSLI Newsletter editors.
Syed Maghrabi was born February 17, 1945 in Aurungabad, India. He immigrated to the USA in November 1968. Syed worked at Louis Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He received the Pride Handelman Award from Weiss Hospital in 1995, which was a source of great pride and satisfaction to him. He died July 29, 2000. The Syed Maghrabi Scholarship was created in his honor.