Rotary Club scholarships support USC researchers
Rotary Club scholarships worth $2,500 each will be presented to three University of the Sunshine Coast PhD students tonight (7.30pm May 28).
The scholarships will help support students whose ground-breaking research ranges from assessing the masculine behaviour of young women, to the emergence of a new class of E. coli bacteria, and the dynamics of developing new business strategies.
USC Foundation Executive Officer Andrew Pentland said the region’s 17 Rotary clubs met annually at the University and, over the years, had donated more than $40,000 in scholarships to students who have progressed from undergraduate to postgraduate studies at USC.
The 2008 Rotary Club scholarship recipients are:
Faculty of Business – Wayne Graham – whose thesis title is “The dynamics of strategy emergence in organisations”.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences – Jamilla Rosdahl – whose thesis title is “Female Masculinity: A case study of young women”.
Faculty of Science, Health and Education – Nubia Ramos – whose thesis title is “Virulence factors of translocating Escherichia coli, a new class of pathogenic E. coli”.
Mr Pentland congratulated the three students, particularly Swedish-born Jamilla Rosdahl and Nubia Ramos from El Salvador.
“It is interesting that both Jamilla and Nubia moved to Australia while they were still at school and did not speak English when they arrived here,” he said.
Nubia’s research also recently won the prestigious Becton Dickinson (BD) Award which is presented annually by the Australian Society of Microbiology in Melbourne.
About 100 Rotarians are expected to attend tonight’s event which will include a campus tour at 5.30pm, a barbecue at 6.30pm and the scholarship presentations at 7.30pm.
— Terry Walsh