WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Aiming to increase student membership and engagement, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has announced that it is now accepting submissions for both the SMPTE Student Paper Awards and the Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship.

SMPTE 2014 Louis F. Wolf Jr. Scholarship Recipients Victoria McGowen and Matthew Donato

The Student Paper Awards will select one student’s paper that, per SMPTE, deals with technical phases of motion picture, television, photographic instrumentation, or their allied arts and sciences. The paper will be published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. To find the application form, requirements and previous examples, click here.

The Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship will grant $5,000 toward a student’s tuition. The scholarship is open to SMPTE student members who are full-time undergraduate students enrolled in an accredited two- or four-year college or university. Potential applicants must have a major in a program that emphasizes the engineering science, advanced technologies, or fundamental theories of motion imaging, sound, metadata and workflows, according to SMPTE. Students must also have completed a minimum of four courses toward their major and be in good academic standing. To apply for the scholarship, click here.

Applications for both the Student Paper Awards and Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship must be submitted by May 18. The winning students will also receive full conference registration for the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, which will take place from Oct. 24-28 in Hollywood, Calif. Winners will be recognized during the SMPTE 2016 Honors and Awards Ceremony on Oct. 24.

WASHINGTON—The Sinclair Broadcasting Diversity Scholarship fund has been established, according to a recent announcement from Sinclair Broadcasting Group. This new scholarship program will provide financial support to minority college student who are interested in broadcast, journalism and marketing.

The fund will award up to 10 scholarships of up to $5,000 each year for the next 10 years. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and currently a sophomore or junior at an accredited four-year undergraduate college or university studying in the areas of broadcasting, journalism or marketing and maintaining a minimum GPA of 2.5 at the time of application.

The deadline for to submit an application for the upcoming school year will be April 29 at 11:59 p.m. EST. For more information or to apply for the scholarship, click here.