[USA] General Sir John Monash Awards 2008
The Awards are Australia’s prestigious equivalent to the Rhodes scholarship and the American Fulbright programme. The Awards offer up to $150,000 over three years for postgraduate studies (PHD, DPhil or professional Masters Degree) at any of the world’s best universities overseas.
Only eight Awards are made each year to Australian citizens adjudged to have outstanding academic achievement, community consciousness and service and leadership potential of their field and the community. The Foundation expects Award Winners to make a significant contribution to the future development of Australia. There is no restriction on the age of applicants or the fields of study. The average age of past Winners is 26 and they have come from universities across Australia including from the fields of: Science; Engineering, Law, Economics, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Social Studies, Medicine, Health, Philosophy, Arts and Music.
Closing Date: 31 August 2007
Profiles of the 2007 Award Winners can be found at http://www.monashawards.org/news.asp.
Further information and application forms are now available at http://www.monashawards.org.
