2025 Tertiary Scholarships Award Ceremony

🎓🌟Celebrating Excellence in Physics and Education 🌟🔬

Since 1990, LCU has proudly supported recipients of our LCU Tertiary Scholarships and since 2018, has also contributed to the CSIRO Alumni Physics Scholarship.

The scholarship awards ceremony was held on 25 February in partnership with the CSIRO Alumni Network, marking another milestone in our more than 70-year history of supporting the CSIRO community and its alumni.

We were delighted to welcome CSIRO alumni members, friends and family to celebrate this year’s outstanding scholarship recipients. Hosted by Dr. Scott Martin and Dr. Bob Steele, the event featured an inspiring keynote from Dr. Douglas Bock, Director of Space and Astronomy and Director of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), who shared reflections on his career and the importance of scholarships and travel.
 

🏅Scholarship Recipients

LCU CEO, Helen Lorigan, presented scholarship awards to this year’s recipients who attended the ceremony in person.

The recipient of the LCU McDonald Clark Award for the highest ATAR in 2025, Arianne Bannister, was recognised for her outstanding academic achievement and will study a Bachelor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.

In addition, Emma Paterson, recipient of the 2025 CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics, will use her scholarship to strengthen collaboration between the Quantum Technologies and Dark Matter Research Lab (QDM) at The University of Western Australia and Jefferson Lab in the United States. Her research focuses on developing high-Q twisted superconducting resonators for the detection of ultra-light dark matter.

We were also proud to celebrate the other nine recipients of the LCU Tertiary Scholarships:

• Aiden Burns (Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Project Management, University of Sydney)
• Emily Gonzalez (Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, Australian Catholic University)
• Cara McIlroy (Bachelor of Engineering Honours, University of New South Wales)
• Angus Favretti (Certificate III in Plumbing, TAFE NSW)
• Aidan Haire (Bachelor of Advanced Computing and Bachelor of Science, University of Sydney)
• Lauren Chang (Bachelor of Double Law, University of New South Wales)
• Issac Heming (Bachelor of Engineering Honours, Queensland University of Technology)
• Siting Liu (Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (with a Mathematics Major), University of New South Wales)
• Hugo Shelton (Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechatronic Engineering), University of Sydney)

The event concluded with an afternoon tea, where attendees reconnected with colleagues and. We are proud to support the future of scientific research and education and look forward to seeing the continued achievements of our scholarship recipients.🚀

Congratulations to all recipients and best wishes for your continued success! 🌟👏🎓