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.
About the Cochlear UK 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