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Students - Prizes and ScholarshipsThis page has details about the following prizes and scholarships:
Sunderland Prize for NeuroscienceWho was Sir Sydney Sunderland?Born in Brisbane in 1910, he attended Brisbane High School from which he graduated as Dux before commencing a science degree at the University of Queensland. After one year he came to Melbourne to enter the medical course and, on December 9 1935, was admitted to the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Melbourne. Such was his distinction as an undergraduate he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Anatomy immediately. Two years later he went to Oxford as a Demonstrator in Anatomy. He was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy and Histology in this University in March, 1940 at the age of 29.
Sir Sydney Sunderland. The early years of the war were very difficult ones but his heavy teaching duties did not deter him from investigational work. From 1941-45 he was Visiting Consultant on Injuries of the Peripheral Nervous System at the General Hospital, Heidelberg. Throughout the years he maintained this interest and his many papers and articles and his major book Nerves and Nerve Injuries reflect his pre-eminence in this subject. His appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1953 led him to the wider fields of medical administration and University government. During his years of service as Dean he saw his Faculty through eighteen years of growth and development, years of greater change and progress than ever before. He was a popular chairman of Anatomy and had an enormous influence on the development of the Department and it was largely through his efforts that we occupy such a fine building today. He was strongly supportive of his staff and worked hard on behalf of the Department to see that it was well resourced. He was an excellent teacher who had an ability to inspire his students through his lucid and informed presentations. His commitment to excellence was conveyed by example. Sir Syd, as he was affectionately known in the Department, died on 27 August 1993 at the age of 82.Further details of his life and considerable achievements can be found at http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/sunderland.htm. Winning the prizeThe Sunderland Prize for Neuroscience is awarded to the highest achieving student in 516 305, Neuroscience: Systems and Higher Functions, in the year of the award. Lavarack Prize for Developmental BiologyWho was Dr JO LavarackJohn Ochiltree Lavarack was born in 1914 and graduated MBBS from the University of Melbourne in 1938. In 1939 he became a Resident Medical Officer at the Alfred Hospital and in 1940 he joined the armed forces, reaching the rank of Major as a Specialist Pathologist.
John Ochiltree Lavarack. In 1947, accepted an appointment in the Department of Pathology at the University of Melbourne and then with the Department of Anatomy in 1949. He worked with Sir Sydney Sunderland on peripheral nerve injury. He is remembered for his teaching in embryology, where his fine blackboard drawings were famous for aiding his clear explanations of a complex subject. In 1953 he was awarded a CJ Martin Fellowship from the NH&MRC and worked at King's College in London. He completed his PhD in 1953 and was appointed Reader in 1956. He died in 1998. Winning the PrizeThe Lavarack prize is awarded to the highest achieving student in 516 306, Developmental Neurobiology, in the year of the award. Wood-Jones Prize for AnatomyWho was Professor FW Wood Jones?Professor Frederick Wood-Jones was a Professor in the Department from 1930 to 1937. He was a Polymath and adventurer. After graduating in Medicine in 1904 in London he became medical officer in the Cocos Islands and published on the formation of coral atolls. Then he became anthropologist to the Egyptian Government assisting the famous anatomist, Elliot-Smith.
Professor FW Wood Jones. He was successively Professor of Anatomy in London (1912), Adelaide (1919), in Anthropology in Hawaii (1927) Anatomy again in Melbourne (1930) in Manchester (1937-45) and at the Royal College of Surgeons until 1951. Sydney Sunderland, who succeeded him in Melbourne, was one of his students. During his period in Melbourne he wrote 80 papers and several books and took a year's leave to become temporary director of Anatomy at the Beijing Union Medical College. He was an accomplished artist, poet, author of children's books, philosopher, scientist and educator. He once wrote I would lay down as an inflexible rule that no teacher should find place on the staff of any University unless actively involved in undertaking some intellectual adventure and that, moreover, he is able and willing to take volunteers along with him upon the expedition. He died in 1954. Winning the prizeThe Wood-Jones Prize for Anatomy is awarded to the student with the best aggregate mark in 516 304, Functional and Applied Anatomy and 516 308, Advanced studies in Human Anatomy in the year of the award. Alcorn Prize for Cell BiologyWho is Professor Daine Alcorn?Professor Daine Alcorn is a graduate of this University, completing a MSc and then a PhD in the Department of Anatomy. Professor Alcorn took up her first appointment at the University in 1974, as a Senior Tutor in Histology and became Professor of Anatomy in 1996. Her research area is renal structure, function and development and the effect of diabetes and hypertension on the kidney. She is particularly interested in how kidney function could be maintained or even restored in the face of these diseases. She is particularly remembered in the department for her teaching in cell biology, embryology and developmental biology and she has a strong interest in curriculum design and educational quality assurance and has been closely involved in the development of interactive multimedia teaching programs. Professor Alcorn is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor Science, Engineering and Technology at RMIT University. Winning the PrizeThe Alcorn prize is awarded to the highest achieving student in 516 201, Cell Biology; Tissues and Organs, in the year of the award. Darian-Smith Prize for NeuroscienceWho is Professor Ian Darian-Smith?Ian Darian-Smith was born in Adelaide in 1927. He graduated from the University of Adelaide with an MBBS in 1950 and followed this up with an MD in 1956. He chose an academic career however and in 1965 became Professor of Physiology at the University of NSW. During this time he spent a year at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore as a Visiting Research Fellow. This lead to a three year appointment at Johns Hopkins as Associate Professor of Physiology. He then returned to Australia and began what was to be a distinguished, 20 year career on the sensorimotor function of the hand at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Professor of Physiology in 1972 and Professor of Anatomy in 1983. Professor Darian-Smith has been funded by the NHMRC for his entire research career in Australia and he has produced over 100 papers. Winning the prizeThe Darian-Smith prize is awarded to the highest achieving student in 516 209, Introductory Neuroscience, in the year of the award. TF Ryan Medal in AnatomyWho was TF Ryan?Dr Thomas Francis Ryan was a local medical practitioner who made a bequest to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne in the early years of the last century. The award was for the leading student in the medical course in second year topographic anatomy. With the recent changes in the medical course, this award is now to be made to the top student in topographic anatomy in BSc/BBiomedSci program.
Thomas Francis Ryan. Winning the prizeThe TF Ryan prize in topographic Anatomy is awarded to the student with the highest aggregate mark across 516 204, Anatomy I and 516 207, Anatomy II in the year of the award. Sir John Eccles Vacation ScholarshipsWhat is a Sir John Eccles Vacation Scholarship?Undergraduate Science students have the opportunity to undertake 4-6 weeks work full time on a project within the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Up to seven vacation scholarships are offered each year and they are worth $1000 each. The work performed is not for credit and is not examined. The scholarship covers two areas, basic research or advanced dissection. In the Sir John Eccles Basic Research Vacation Scholarship, the student will gain valuable insight into how modern medical research is carried out and can test their aptitude for this career. Students will work in their supervisor's laboratory on the design, execution and analysis of a series of experiments. In the Sir John Eccles Advanced Dissection Vacation Scholarship, students will, under the direction of experienced topographic anatomists, prepare specimens to be used in subsequent teaching and anatomical workshops. The work would normally be carried out over the mid year or summer vacation. The scholarship is named after the Nobel prize winning Australian neuroscientist, Sir John Eccles, who was a graduate of this Faculty and a prosector in this Department in 1921-22. He undertook a PhD at Oxford and later worked with Sir Charles Sherrington, predominantly on synaptic transmission. He was a pioneer in the field of electrophysiology and was a leading combatant in the great debate of ionic versus chemical transmission at the synapse. Later work in Australia and New Zealand, and then in the US, included the first intracellular recordings from neurons in the brain and much work on the functioning of inhibitory and excitatory synapses. This work extended into an attempt to understand the brain function at an organisational level and he received the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963. Sir John died in 1997 in Switzerland. Entry RequirementsAny currently enrolled student at The University of Melbourne can apply using the application form. The applications will normally be considered during the second last week of Semester 1 or Semester 2, but may be awarded at other times. Selection will be on academic merit and experience. Each application will need to be countersigned by a supervisor prior to submission. To find a supervisor for a Basic Research Vacation Scholarship, first look through the list of Honours projects and potential supervisors available on the ACB web site. Any project listed for Honours can be adapted for a Sir John Eccles Vacation Scholar. For any project that you are attracted to, contact the supervisors by email, phone or visit them in their office, or talk to them at the departmental Honours information session in October each year. To apply for an Sir John Eccles Advanced Dissection Vacation Scholarship, contact Assoc Prof Chris Briggs (8344 5776, c.briggs@unimelb.edu.au). He will co-ordinate your application, which can be found here (application form). Further details are provided on the Vacation Scholarship application form. Contact the Vacation Scholarship co-ordinatorAssoc Prof Colin Anderson Links to labs that may offer a Vacation ScholarshipThe following links will take you to the web pages of laboratories that will offer potential projects to be undertaken by Scholarship holders.
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