Scholarships
- The Sylvia Walton Fund
- Carolyn O'Gorman Plenty Valley Community Health Scholarship
- Founding Cohort Scholarship
- Professor Edgar Smith Scholarship
- Richard Zann Memorial Bursary
- The B. Manjee Memorial Scholarships
The Sylvia Walton Scholarship Fund
The aim of the Sylvia Walton Scholarship Fund is to support a commencing student at La Trobe University who would otherwise not have the opportunity to undertake tertiary studies, due to financial hardship and/or educational disadvantage. The University is currently seeking donations to grow the scholarship fund.
Support the Sylvia Walton Scholarship Fund.
Carolyn O'Gorman Plenty Valley Community Health Scholarship
This is a memorial scholarship established to commemorate the life of a staff member from Plenty Valley Community Health who perished in the fires on Black Saturday. Plenty Valley Community Health are supporting scholarships for two students experiencing financial hardship who are studying in a health related discipline.
Founding Cohort Scholarship
This scholarship is funded from donations made by the Founding Cohort members and will go to support two students from regional/rural areas who are currently living in the residential colleges on Bundoora Campus.
Professor Edgar Smith Scholarship
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has established a memorial scholarship to honour the life and work of Professor Edgar Smith who was a renowned academic with the University for twenty years. Professor Smith was appointed to the Chair of Applied Mathematics in 1986 and during his career with La Trobe he served as Head of the Department as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering. He was also Pro Vice-Chancellor IT from 1995-2005. He passed away in July 2009.
The Professor Edgar Smith Scholarship takes the form of a Travel Award, to be awarded annually to a full-time PhD student of outstanding merit from the Department. The Travel Award is to allow the recipient to undertake an extended overseas visit, to attend a conference and to work with an expert of international standing in the area of the student's thesis. The Award will normally be made in the area of applied mathematics (including mathematical physics), which was Professor Edgar Smith's own discipline area.
Please contact the La Trobe University Foundation for more information regarding these scholarships.
Richard Zann Memorial Bursary
In February 2009, the Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of Dr Richard Zann, his wife Eileen and their daughter Eva. Dr Zann was a highly respected staff member of La Trobe University. He was a distinguished teacher and ornithologist and he had an international reputation for his work on bird behaviors. Dr Zann had been a member of the Department of Zoology at La Trobe University since 1972.
In memory of Richard Zann, and to acknowledge the significant impact of both his research and teaching, an annual bursary has been established by his family, donors, and the Department of Zoology, that will support the career development of a La Trobe University research student from a rural area.
The University would like particularly to acknowledge Christopher Zann, the surviving member of the immediate family for his pledge to this bursary, and the wider Zann family who have also committed their support.
The Zoology Department and members of Dr Zann's family would like to see the fund grow to enable the bursary to be offered into the distant future to honour Richard Zann.
Support the Richard Zann Memorial Fund.
The B. Manjee Memorial Scholarships
These awards have been established through a generous donation to the University by Kishor Manjee, who is Director of several retail outlets in the Agora, including Caffeine Café. The B. Manjee Memorial Scholarships have been created to assist up to three students per year who are experiencing financial hardship to continue on with their course of study. The value of each award is $3,500 per student and is offered annually for the remainder of the students’ degree program.
The scholarships are open to all continuing students (that is, any student who is already studying here at La Trobe) from the Melbourne campus who meets the University’s equity criteria. Awards will be made in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Two of these awards have been earmarked for international students (one to be offered in 2011 and one in 2012).
Applications for these awards must be made through the University’s Equality and Diversity Centre. For more information and details of the eligibility criteria, students are advised to contact the centre.
