ABOUT PALAS
PALAS is a Non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which means your donation/contribution is tax-deductible.
The Peace and Love Academic Scholarship (PALAS) program was established in December 2010 after the brutal killing in Portmore, Jamaica of young reggae artist, Vanessa Campbell. An initial scholarship program was created as the SSSJamz/Vanessa Campbell Academic Scholarship to assist high school students from her Alma mater, Bridgeport High School.
After an appeal by founder Rula Brown to listeners of his popular Internet radio shows; “Sultry Sunday Slow Jamz” (SSSJamz) and “Peace and Love Vibration Show” (PALVS) produced excellent responses. It was subsequently decided to extend the scholarship program to high school students currently residing in the Caribbean region. On July 8, 2011, thirteen (13) scholarships were awarded to high school students in Kingston, Jamaica.
Preserving Young Minds for Posterity
Registered Non-profit, 501 (c) (3)
PALAS is a registered non-profit, 501 (c) (3) Tax exempt organization in the State of Georgia.
Any contributions made to PALAS, Inc. is tax deductible.
We appreciate your donations.
Greetings and welcome to the © PALAS website. Your donation to PALAS is highly appreciated as we are a non-profit organization. All funds donated will be used towards the many scholarships that will be awarded to the students. Please make your online donation by clicking on the widget above, it will open a PAYPAL page to make the donation or the option to donate via credit/debit card.
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Dr. Deborah Washington Brown
Humble and soft-spoken, Deborah Washington Brown would never have described herself as a trailblazer.
But as the first Black woman to graduate from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with an applied mathematics Ph.D. in 1981, she shattered the racial and gender barriers that still plague technology fields today.
Brown was the first Black computer scientist to earn a Harvard Ph.D., and also one of the first Black, female computer scientists to graduate from a U.S. doctoral program.
