Six Tsinghua alumni win Sloan Research Fellowships
According to a list released on Feb 16, 128 young faculty from around the world were granted the awards. Among them were six Tsinghua alumni: Gao Wei, Li Han, Gao Ziyue, Ma Tengyu, Lian Biao and Zhen Bo.
New Fellowship Program Expands Career Options for Grad Students
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and in partnership with the San Diego Community College District...
Scholarship seeks to push indigenous voice to the forefront of NZ architecture
As the largest Polynesian city in the world, Auckland presents a noticeable lack of Māori and Pacific representation in its architecture. This scholarship, and its incentive to study the subject...
UNSW academic joins prestigious computer science fellowship
Professor Toby Walsh at UNSW Engineering, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) academics, has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery...
Next generation of musicians to benefit as UCC receives €2m bequest
Generations of musical talent from Seán Ó Riada to Ann Cleare have learned their trade at University College Cork - and now future cohorts of musicians will benefit...
Reckoning with Australia’s colonial archive: poet Natalie Harkin wins RAKA Prize
Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence...
“Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs” wins Cundill History Prize
Camilla Townsend receives US$75,000 – the largest reward for a work of non-fiction in English – for the first-ever history based solely on texts written by the Aztec people.
Wallace prizewinner no flash in the pan
A writer of flash fiction, extremely short stories, has won the University of Auckland’s $5000 Sir James Wallace Creative Writing Prize for the first time.
RGU wins Energy Institute competition sixth year in a row
An engineering student from Robert Gordon University (RGU), Liza van den Berg, has taken home the top prize in an annual competition held by the Energy Institute (EI).
A hand up with education: Celebrating 20 years of scholarship support
Nancy Caiger believes strongly that those who receive a helping hand in life should pay it forward, when they can.
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