Cochlear announce 2009 Graeme Clark Scholarship Award winner!
Cochlear UK is delighted to announce Rebecca French from Durham as their 2009 winner of the Graeme Clark Scholarship Award. The €6,000 scholarship will help to support her through university.
Born profoundly deaf, 19 year old Rebecca was implanted at the age of 3. She is extremely ambitious and has received excellent results in her studies and is currently studying for a BA in Modern History and Politics at the prestigious St Andrew’s University in Fife, Scotland. Her ambition is to become a lawyer. Rebecca also participates in a number of sporting and voluntary activities and says her implant has enabled her to live life to the full, to turn potential into achievement, to enjoy all sorts of opportunities and to use her skills, energy and enthusiasm to help others.
On being informed she had won the award Rebecca said “I am delighted to accept the award, it is such an honour! I did not expect it!”
We will shortly be celebrating Rebecca’s outstanding achievements and presenting her with the award at a special ceremony to be attended by her family, friends and members of her implant centre. Please visit again for further updates.
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Graeme Clark Scholarship Award
The Cochlear UK Graeme Clark Scholarship Award provides college age students a grant for tuition, for students either currently completing their final year of school and who have been accepted onto a university or other tertiary education course; mature-aged students who have been accepted onto a university or other tertiary education course; or students currently undertaking a university degree of other tertiary education.
The award was established in 2002 in honor of Professor Graeme Clark to thank him for his lifelong pursuit of finding a solution for the hearing impaired and his pioneering work in the field of cochlear implant technology. Professor Clark, Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne, invented the world’s first multi-channel cochlear implant over 25 years ago.
The scholarship is a unique award open to Cochlear Nucleus® implant recipients nationwide, which is awarded on the basis of academic achievement, as well as Cochlear’s ideals of leadership and humanity.
To find out more information about the UK Scholarship Award for 2010 and how to apply, please contact: Kate King, Advocacy Specialist, email: kking@cochlear.com