Tamsin Jones.
University of Otago graduate Tamsin Jones has been
awarded a prestigious $US100,000 Frank Knox Memorial
Scholarship to support two years of doctoral study at Harvard
University, in the United States.
Ms Jones (23) will begin her American studies in August. The
scholarship, which covers tuition fees and health insurance,
also provides a living stipend, totalling about $US50,000 a
year.
"I feel very privileged to be selected," she said.
Her planned study of genetic mechanisms controlling the
development of germ cells- which are the reproductive cells
in multicellular organisms- could also help shed new light on
some causes of human infertility.
Ms Jones, who has a BSc (hons) degree in genetics from Otago,
has also received further scholarship support from the
Harvard University department of organismic and evolutionary
biology, enabling her to continue her research for a further
four years after the Knox scholarship ends.
Knox scholarships each year support study at Harvard by about
15 students from New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain.
john.gibb@odt.co.nz
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