Scholarships & Other Awards

Scholarships are often attached to particular industry or government sponsored Honours, MSc or PhD projects. Sources from which students obtained scholarships in the recent past include:

• Coca-Cola Regional Scholarships Program is offering 34 scholarships worth $2,000 each for students studying agriculture related subjects as members of Agricultural Show Societies. Applications for Scholarships close June 30, 2008. For information or an application form contact visit: www.acas.asn.au/coca-cola or contact Geoff Fader at gfader@bigpond.net.au.
• 2008 Australian Agricultural Industries Young Innovators and Scientists Awards - Closing 14 July, 2008
• Curtin Academic Merit Full Scholarship - Closing January 11, 2008
• Curtin Academic Merit Partial Scholarship - Closing January 11, 2008
• Curtin Access Scholarship
• John Curtin Undergraduate Scholarships
• The Graham Lodwick Scholarship
• Curtin Aquatic Resources Innovation Scholarship - Closing December 14, 2007
  Curtin Aquaculture Innovation Scholarship- Closing December 14, 2007
  Curtin Aquaculture Access Scholarship - Closing December 14, 2007
  Curtin Aquaculture Excellence Scholarship - Closing January 11, 2008
• Frank Broomhall Memorial Scholarship [sample announcement attached]
• Blackwood Agricultural Scholarship
• Australian Beef industry Foundation Scholarships
• Australian Sheep Industry Undergraduate Scholarship [Application Form; Academic Referee’s Report]
• Water Corporation Scholarship in Biosolids Research
• Scholarships for Students Enrolled in a Tertiary Course Related to Agriculture provided by Australian Council of Agricultural Societies [ACAS], Royal Agricultural Society of WA [RASWA] and Coca-Cola Amatil. For details see: http://www.acas.asn.au/coca-cola/. [sample announcement attached]
• Australian Beef Industry Foundation Scholarships - http://www.skunkhouse.com/postings/18369/news/attachment/8793a18369.doc
• Ernest Lee-Steere Scholarship [UNDERGRAD]
• Curtin University Postgraduate Students' Association Scholarships
• Australian Grain Institute Scholarship [UNDERGRAD]
• Farm Weekly/Blackwood Murray Grey Stud Scholarship [UNDERGRAD]
• Talijancich-Radoux Award [sample announcement attached]
• IAMA Student Travel Grant [sample announcement attached]
• Merchants Trust Fund - for honours dissertation
• Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology [sample announcement attached]
• Mulga Research Centre
• Kings Park
• Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)
• Wentworth Group Science Program Scholarships

See Curtin scholarips page at http://www.scholarships.curtin.edu.au/ for a full list of scholarships available for undergraduate and post graduate studies.

Agribusiness Prizes

• Muresk Enabling Course Prize
• T H Wilding Memorial Prize for Best 1 st Year Student in the Bachelor of Agribusiness (Farm Management)
• Countryman/West Australian Prize for Best 1 st Year Student in the Bachelor of Agribusiness (Marketing)
• Muresk Horse Club Prize for Best 1 st Year Student in Bachelor of Agribusiness (Equine Management)
• Murray and Pauline Hawkins Prize for Best Student in Food & Agribusiness Marketing 201 [Northam campus]
• Frank Venn Memorial Prize for the Best Student in Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems 302
• Farmanco Prize for Best Student in Agribusiness Finance 202 / 502
• WA Farmers Federation Prize for Best 2 nd Student in the Bachelor of Agribusiness (Farm Management)
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia Prize for Best 2nd Year Student in the Bachelor of Agribusiness (Marketing)
• Rural Enterprises Prize for Best 2 nd Year Student in Bachelor of Agribusiness (Equine Management)
• Hannah Wansbrough Prize for Best Honours Dissertation – Agribusiness
• Dirk Hessels Prize for the Best Student in the Graduate Diploma