The University of Sydney – Australia is awarding a $5000 scholarship opportunity to provide financial assistance to a motivated and high-achieving physics honours student who wishes to undertake research into the design, fabrication, and characterization of photonic integrated devices operating at terahertz frequencies.
he University was founded on two main principles — religious tolerance and the admission of students on academic merit. The first principle ensured students were admitted regardless of religious belief. The second, that students ‘matriculated’ to university by passing an academic examination.
Both ideas were new ways of thinking about universities in the mid-nineteenth century and challenged traditional university models. They emerged out of serious conversations in Britain and Europe about the purpose of universities and were adapted by our founders to create a university to suit the colonial circumstances of New South Wales.
These principles are enshrined in the opening pages of the first University of Sydney Calendar.
Other key milestones:
1881: The University of Sydney Senate formally approved women’s admission to all undergraduate courses in 1881. The first women undergraduate students commenced in 1882
1885: Mary Elizabeth Brown and Isola Florence Thompson each graduate with a Bachelor of Arts.
1890: 12 percent of undergraduates were women increasing to 27% in 1919
1919: 50 percent of undergraduate enrolments in the faculties of arts, science and architecture were women. Women enrolments in these faculties remain almost 50 percent until the end of World War 2 when they increase due to the introduction of Commonwealth Scholarships.
1963: Charles Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, and Gary Williams, a Gumbayngirr and Mullumbimby man, matriculate to the University of Sydney, the first two students to identify as Aboriginal.
1965: Felcia Corowa matriculated from Tweed River High School and enrolled in Arts at the University of Sydney, the first woman student to identify as Aboriginal.
1966: Charles Perkins, Bachelor of Arts, the first University of Sydney graduate to identify as Aboriginal.
Eligibility for the Honours International Scholarships:
To be eligible, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be a domestic or international student
- Have an unconditional offer of admission or be currently enrolled full-time or part-time in Physics Honours within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney
- Have achieved a Distinction average, or equivalent, during undergraduate studies.
- You will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency. For more information, go through the English language requirements page.
Eligible Countries: International
Type: Honours Research
Value of Awards: $5000
Number of Awards: Not Known
Method of Application: Applicants must take admission in Honours Research program at the university. After getting enrolled, candidates must complete and submit the online application form.
Application Deadline: 1 March 2022.
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