University of Otago students have received a total of $34,000 in Freemasons’ scholarships. Postgraduate student Phillipa Struthers gained a $10,000 scholarship, and four undergraduate students - Yeri Kim, Leah Hamilton, Chris Bloomer and Griegan Panckhurst - all received $6000 each.
Struthers is focusing her PhD research on strengthening family and school relationships to support early literacy in children. Hamilton, in the final year of a Bachelor of Laws and BA (Hons) of History, commented that the scholarship “takes the pressure off financially.”
Bloomer is taking a year away from his MB ChB medical studies to undertake research for a Bachelor (Hons) of Medical Science. Kim is studying for a Psychology honours degree, examining how dysfunctional neural signalling impairs information-processing in disorders such as autism.
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