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
Benefit duration
One-off
Summary
The Sunderland Prize is offered to students with the most outstanding performance in the Neuroscience major.
About the donor
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 at the University of Melbourne in March, 1940 at the age of 29.
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 here.
https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/sydney-sunderland-1910-1993
Benefits
A once-off payment of $1000
Amount:
Up to $1,000
Duration:
One-off
Eligibility and selection criteria
Eligibility
To be considered for this prize, you must have completed the Neuroscience major.
Selection criteria
The prize is offered to the student(s) completing a Neuroscience Major in any year with the highest aggregate mark for the two core subjects:
- Principles of Neuroscience
- Neurophysiology
Combined with the aggregate scores in the best two electives that contribute to the major.
Study level:
Undergraduate
Student type:
Domestic and international students
Study area:
Health
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How to apply
No application. Selection based on results as per the eligibility criteria.
Contact
Please contact BiomedSci-AcademicServices@unimelb.edu.au
When will I know the outcome?
Successful recipients will be notified writing in Semester One of the following year.
Status:
Open for automatic consideration
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- 2025: Ingrid Sefton
- 2024: Yevin Gamlath
- 2023: Nicholas Howard
- 2022: Stone Ke and Lucinda Xiao
- 2021: Aayushi Khillan
- 2020: Emily Taylor-Brown
- 2019: Max Cassidy Ming Wang
- 2018: Lauren Dragovic
- 2017: Zhong Yan Gan
- 2016: Michael Yap
- 2015: Paige Dissanayake
- 2014: Timothy Phan
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