Scholarships & Exchanges 2008

In partnership with benefactors and businesses across Tasmania, Jane Franklin Hall provides thousands of dollars annually to its residents in the form of scholarships. Jane Franklin Hall and its partners are committed to providing the best possible study opportunities. Scholarships are an investment in tomorrow’s leaders and identify a belief in and a commitment to the long-term betterment of our society.

Scholarships are awarded on specific criteria for each scholarship. For some scholarships, the amount of money awarded varies according to monetary interest rates and the generosity of particular donors. Most scholarships are paid as a remission of fees, and residents may only be in receipt of one scholarship at any time.

Jane Franklin Hall gratefully acknowledges the assistance of

• Australian Bulk Minerals
• Betta Milk
• Bryce Courtenay
• Devonport City Council
• The Honorable Charles and Mrs Flora Fenton
• Dr Karla Fenton
• Rosey and Sarah Gilder
• Alumni of Jane Franklin Hall
• Fellows of Jane Franklin Hall
• Contributors to the Jane Franklin Hall Foundation
• Contributors to the Jane Franklin Hall Law Scholarship Fund
• Dr Shirley Jeffrey
• St John's College Manitoba
• University of Tasmania Faculty of Science and Engineering
• University of Tasmania Tibet Exchange

The Australian Bulk Minerals Scholarship
Value: $3,000 per student per year for two students in third and fourth years of study

Restricted to students studying Geology, Surveying or Engineering or any other mining related subjects and who have a genuine interest in employment in the mining industry. Successful completion of paid vacation work at the Savage River Mines at the end of second year of study will also be part of the selection criteria.

The Betta Milk scholarship
Value:  Up to $5,000

Unrestricted scholarship for a first-year student. Selection criteria are financial need and academic potential. Any subject area. Endowed by north-west coast milk supplier Betta Milk.

The Damon Courtenay Memorial Scholarship
Value: Up to $2,000

Unrestricted scholarship for a first-year student from any faculty. Selection criteria are financial need and academic potential. Endowed by the author Bryce Courtenay in memory of his son, Damon.

Devonport City Council scholarship
Value: up to $3,000

Restricted to first-year students from the Devonport municipality. Based on a cadetship approach, this scholarship allows the recipient the option of paid holiday work with Council. Other selection criteria are financial need and academic potential. Applicants are required to submit a statement demonstrating the value of their studies to local Government.

The James Fenton Memorial Scholarship

Value: $3,500 per year for three years

Offered to first-year students from the north-west of Tasmania enrolled in any faculty. Selection criteria are financial need and academic potential. Endowed by the Hon. Charles and Flora Fenton, in honour of Mr Fenton's great-grandfather, James, the first European to settle west of the Mersey River.

The Dr Karla Fenton Travelling Scholarship
Value: Up to $2,500

This scholarship is offered to a student in second or third year, in any faculty, who wishes to study overseas and who intends to return to the college in the following year. Endowed by a Fellow of the college, Dr Karla Fenton.

The Kate Gilder Scholarship
Value: $5,000

Offered for one year to a returning female resident from any faculty who shows leadership, who encourages others and who has made a significant contribution to College life. Satisfactory academic achievement is important but the concept of “having a go” and achieving a balance in life between study, the outdoors and community participation is considered more important with this award. Endowed by Rosey and Sarah Gilder in memory of their sister, Kate. An application pack is available at the Jane Office.

The Jane Franklin Hall Distinguished Scholar Awards
Value: Up to $1,000

Residents who achieve outstanding academic results in any year of study will receive the Distinguished Scholar Award. This award includes a substantial remission of accommodation fees for the following year, the precise amount depending upon the number of recipients and monetary interest rates.

The Fellows' Scholarship
Value: Up to $3,000

Unrestricted scholarship for a first-year student from any faculty.  Selection criteria are financial need and academic potential. Endowed by the Fellows of Jane Franklin Hall.

Jane Franklin Hall Alumni Regional Scholarships
Value: Up to $2,000 each

The Alumni Scholarships are offered to academically outstanding students from regional Tasmania. In conjunction with the University of Tasmania, this scholarship is offered to a first year student for a maximum of four years while the student continues to be a resident of the College.

The Jane Foundation Law Scholarship Fund
Value: Up to $1,000

Restricted to current Jane students who achieve the highest marks in Introduction to Law in their first year and who are continuing with studies in Law.

Dr Andrew Heron Prize
Value: $500

Restricted to a second year Jane Franklin Hall student who has achieved excellent first year results in Zoology, Plant Science, Human Biology or Medicine. Endowed by Dr Shirley Jeffrey in memory of her husband.

From The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates

Ed. Dr Q Bone, Oxford University Press, 1998

This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr Andrew Heron, an unusually gentle and modest man, who was noted for his helpfulness to others, and for his enthusiasm for pelagic tunicates. He was the first to show, in a remarkable PhD thesis (later to appear as a number of seminal papers), what underlay the spectacular capacity of salps for bloom formation. He worked in the CSIRO Fisheries laboratory, first at Cronulla near Sydney, and then at the new Hobart laboratory. He was fortunate in possessing the most unusual combination of superior mathematical skills and a deep interest in natural history, and after a trip to Heron Island as a Sydney undergraduate, became a marine biologist whose best known and highly original work was on the population biology of the small salp Thalia.

This work, which resulted from field observations on a bloom of Thalia, soon became - and has remained - a classic of marine ecology, and as a glance at the bibliography of this book will show, he was interested in and contributed to functional anatomy as well.

He died on the 27th of November 1989, aged only 49, leaving his wife and colleague Shirley Jeffrey. Few scientists have made such an authoritative and original contribution to tunicate biology he will be much missed by all who knew him.

The Jane Franklin Hall/Faculty of Science and Engineering Scholarship
Value: up to $2,000

Unrestricted scholarship for a first-year student. This scholarship is awarded to the student who achieves the highest marks in Science in year 12 and who is not receiving another scholarship.

St John's College, University of Manitoba Exchange Programme

www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_johns/

As part of an exchange agreement between Jane Franklin Hall and St John’s College, students from the University of Manitoba, Canada, are given the opportunity to live here for one semester. Residents of Jane Franklin Hall can apply to live and study at Manitoba for a similar period. An agreement between the two universities helps facilitate the recognition of studies abroad.

University of Tasmania Tibetan Exchange Scholarship

This scholarship is offered as part of an exchange programme between the University of Tasmania and the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Saranath, India. The recipient is provided with all accommodation needs for a maximum of two years whilst in residence at Jane Franklin Hall.

Information and Notes

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To apply for Jane scholarships please use the Tasmania Scholarships Application Form for 2007 obtainable from either the University Scholarships Office or the College. It may also be downloaded from the address below. Unsuccessful applicants for a particular scholarship at Jane may be considered for some of the alternative awards listed above.

Please return completed application forms to:

Tasmania Scholarships Office
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 40
Hobart TAS 7001

http://www.scholarships.utas.edu.au

Applications for awards in the calendar year 2008 close on 31 October 2007