Key scholarship details
Application status
Open for automatic consideration
Benefit amount
Up to $1,000
Eligible study level
Undergraduate
Eligible student type
Domestic and international students
Eligible study stage
Current study
Benefit duration
One-off
Summary
The Department of Anatomy and Physiology administers four Majors and has made available a prize to the top student in each. The Lavarack Prize is awarded to the highest achieving student in the Cell and Developmental Biology Major.
About the donor
Who was Dr John Lavarack?
John 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.
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.
Benefits
The prize provides a one-off payment of $1000
Amount:
Up to $1,000
Duration:
One-off
Quantity:
4
Eligibility and selection criteria
Eligibility
Awarded to the student completing a Cell and Developmental Biology Major in any year who has the highest score in the core subject CEDB30002 Concepts in Cell & Developmental Biology, combined with the aggregate scores in the best three elective subjects that contribute to the major.
Selection criteria
Selection is based on academic performance in 3rd year subjects contributing to the major.
Study level:
Undergraduate
Student type:
Domestic and international students
Study stage type:
Current study
Study area:
Health
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How to apply
No application is required. Selection is automatically considered based on results as per the eligibility criteria.
Contact
Please contact BiomedSci-AcademicServices@unimelb.edu.au
When will I know the outcome?
Prize winners are notified in Semester One of the following year.
Status:
Open for automatic consideration
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- 2025: Ruihua Nie
- 2024: Anonymous
- 2023: Christina Alsterberg
- 2022: Annabella Lewis
- 2021: Samuel Ronfeldt
- 2020: Yihe Wang
- 2019: Josephine White
- 2018: Stanley Hartono
- 2017: Mitchell Alexander
- 2016: The joint prize winners were Indah Cox-Livingstone and James Toohey
- 2015: The joint prize winners were Xin Wang and Ebony Selers
- 2014: Rachel Brown
The information listed here is subject to change without notice. Where we have listed information about jointly run scholarships programs, please also see our partners' websites. Information describing the number and value of scholarships awarded is indicative.
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