Two University of Central Arkansas students, Taylor Nguyen and Nato Silue, have been awarded $5,000 scholarships from Acxiom, as part of the company’s Diversity Scholarship Program.
Acxiom said the Diversity Scholarship is awarded to U.S.-based students from diverse backgrounds who are enrolled in a full-time, post-secondary degree program such as computer science, computer information systems, management information systems, information quality, information systems, engineering, mathematics and statistics, or related areas of study.
Nguyen and Silue are two of only 10 students nationwide to earn the scholarship.
Nguyen, a senior from Vietnam, is double majoring in computer science and math, with an emphasis in data science. She has also been admitted into the UCA Graduate School, where she plans to continue studying computer science.
“I am truly honored to be one of the recipients of the Acxiom Diversity Scholarship,” she said. “I would like to express my gratitude to the scholarship review committee and Acxiom as a whole for placing me in such distinguished ranks with the other recipients and past honorees. The scholarship will help me greatly as I continue to work on my master’s in computer science at the University of Central Arkansas, pursuing my passion for data science and software engineering.”
Silue, a senior from Korhogo, Ivory Coast, is majoring in information systems and said she, too, is honored and grateful to have been selected as an Acxiom scholarship recipient.
“This scholarship will relieve me from the financial pressure I usually face and allow me to focus on my studies,” she said. “This is my last semester, and I couldn’t ask for a better gift!”
Diversity scholarship students are selected based on their ability to demonstrate a combination of academic achievement, field of study aimed at information technology and professional interest as it relates to Acxiom’s business needs.