Nine Fayette County Public Schools students are among more than 2,800 seniors who have been awarded National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities.

 

College officials selected their winners from among finalists in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their school. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study.

 

Congratulations to these FCPS students:

 

Drew J. Sugarman of Henry Clay High School, probable career field: psychology, school: University of Kentucky;

 

Allan J. Vestal, Henry Clay High, journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia;

Daniel A. Bacon-Brown of Lafayette High School, material engineering, UK;

 

Laura D. Menard, Lafayette, nursing, St. Olaf College;

 

Emily C. Lawler of Paul Laurence Dunbar High, biology, UK.

 

Richard E. Parsons, Dunbar, medicine, UK;

 

Javid N. Pour-Ghasemi, Dunbar, medicine, Southern California;

 

Andrew W. Wang, Dunbar, biomedical engineering, Purdue University;

 

Erik E. Patchell of Tates Creek High School, business, Ohio State.

 

Another group of scholarship winners will be announced in July. For more information, go to www.nationalmerit.org.