Awards under science scheme

Press, 3 September 1986, Page 41

Awards under science scheme

Awards totalling more than $26,000 have been made to seven New Zealand scientists and technicians under the Prince and Princess of Wales science scheme.

The awards, established by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1983, are made twice yearly to New Zealand-based scientists, technologists, and technicians to help them in overseas studies.

Dr Deborah Errington, a post-doctoral fellow of the Medical Research Council in Christchurch, received the $5OOO New Zealand Shell Award. She used the award to visit university laboratories involved in her field of research — D.N.A. technology and genetif engineering — in Cambridge and London during May and June., The Unilever New Zealand Award has gone to Dr S. Perera, a scientist in

the Chemistry Division of the D.S.I.R. in Petone Dr Perera will visit the materials science division of C.5.1.R.0. in Australia to study hot pressing and high-temperature equipment. Other awards have been made to Mr Phillip Broadhurst, of Auckland, a science technician with the Plant Disease Division of the D.5.1.R.; Dr Jeremy Gibb, a scientist with the water and soil directorate of the Ministry of Works and Development in Wellington; Mr Steve Lawrence, a technical officer at the Hydatids Research Centre, in Upper Hutt; Miss Jane Pearce, a scientist who has established a mycoplasma reference laboratory with the National Institute of Health at Porirua; and Dr Roderick Weston, a scientist in the Chemistry Division of the D.S.I.R. in Petone.