Sallie Mae Bank awards $75,000 in Utah scholarships

MURRAY, Utah, Aug. 13, 2009Sallie Mae Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading saving, planning and paying for education company, today announced that it has awarded 15 $5,000 scholarships to undergraduate students enrolled in an engineering, nursing or teaching program at a higher education institution in Salt Lake County or other Utah counties.

This is the third year of the Sallie Mae Bank scholarship program. To date, the company has awarded nearly $200,000 in scholarships through this program.

This year, the following undergraduate students received a $5,000 scholarship:

        Suzanne Arthur             Western Governors University

        Brittany Bayles              Brigham Young University

        Alyse Bennett                Brigham Young University

        Ashley Graff                   Brigham Young University

        Heidiann Heiniger       Brigham Young University

        Ryan Hone                    Brigham Young University

        Jamie Jarvis                 Brigham Young University

        Camille Jensen           Brigham Young University

        Hayley Kirkland            Brigham Young University

        Janel Marx                     Brigham Young University

        Rachel Naylor               Brigham Young University

        Thuy Nguyen                 University of Utah

        Jacob Nibarger             Brigham Young University

        Jasmine Sears             Brigham Young University

        Joshua Stewart             Brigham Young University

“We at Sallie Mae Bank are pleased to help these admirable local Utah students invest in their dreams of higher education,” said Mark Howard, president, Sallie Mae Bank. “It is our hope that these scholarships will help enable these ambitious undergraduates to succeed.”

Sallie Mae Bank, a subsidiary of Sallie Mae, funds and originates private education loans to students and families nationwide. Opened in November 2005, the bank is headquartered in Murray, Utah, and is regulated and its deposits insured by the FDIC.


For more information contact:
Erica Eriksdotter (703) 984-5628



SLM Corporation (NYSE: SLM), commonly known as Sallie Mae, is the nation’s leading provider of saving, planning and paying for education programs. Through its subsidiaries, the company manages $192 billion in education loans and serves 10 million student and parent customers. Through its Upromise affiliates, the company also manages more than $21 billion in 529 college-savings plans, and is a major, private source of college funding contributions in America with 11 million members and more than $500 million in member rewards. Sallie Mae and its subsidiaries offer debt management services as well as business and technical products to a range of business clients, including higher education institutions, student loan guarantors and state and federal agencies. More information is available at www.salliemae.com. SLM Corporation and its subsidiaries are not sponsored by or agencies of the United States of America.


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