Award for Auckland student
Miss Kaye Burnett, an Auckland ' science student, has been granted her third fellowship from the women’s service club, Zonta International.
She was one of 25 women recipients of the annual Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards for graduate study, said Zonta’s national secretary, Ms Jeanne Edgar, in Christchurch.
Zonta has given the awards since 1938 in memory of one of its members, the aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart. The grants, valued at $5OOO, go to women scientists and engineers, working in aeronautics.
Names are put forward to an international committee of Zonta. So far awards have gone to women of 27 countries.
Miss Burnett has spent more than three years, in the United States. She is using her third scholarship to complete a series of experiments on nonlinear interaction surface waves. Her study is also towards a Ph.D. degree at the Johns Hopkins University. She plans a career in geophysical fluid dynamics and hopes to take part in the New Zealand scientific community and decisions concerning the South Pacific region. Zonta has 21 clubs in New Zealand and more than 850 throughout the world. Its membership is drawn from business executives and professional women.
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Press, 7 January 1983, Page 5
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