Two South Korean high school students will be awarded Barry Marshall Daejeon Scholarships and Adrienne Marshall English Language Scholarships worth $170,000, enabling them to study at The University of Western Australia. 

The University's Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Barry Marshall and his colleague Dr Robin Warren discovered that a bacterium caused stomach ulcers, and not stress or diet as was previously thought.

The scholarship in Professor Marshall and Mrs Marshall's name is awarded to outstanding science students from one of the oldest schools in science, the Daejeon Science High School, which has only 150 students in 10 classes, all with mathematics and science scores in the top 10 per cent in the country.

The prestigious school has a reputation for science excellence, as does UWA, one of the Group of Eight research intensive universities and highly ranked for science in the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities index.

The scholarship covers the full cost of undergraduate Bachelor of Science studies for the winners, Miss Sue-Young Hong and Mr Min Whee Sung, who will be presented with their scholarships at their school in South Korea on November 18. 

Last year's winners, Mr Guyoung Song and Mr Jae Hoon Lee, are completing studies in green chemistry and biomedical science at UWA.

For more information, visit the University home page:  http://www.uwa.edu.au/  or the international students' page:  http://www.studyat.uwa.edu.au/undergrad/international

Media references

Shaun Wellbourne-Wood (Overseas Development Manager)  (+61 8)  6488 3620
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716