{"id":4711,"date":"2010-10-07T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T00:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/planning-student-wins-dobell-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:36","slug":"planning-student-wins-dobell-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/planning-student-wins-dobell-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning student wins Dobell scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor of Western Australia has presented a Curtin University town planning student with the inaugural Jeff Dobell Memorial Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>First-year urban and regional planning student Thane Browne attended the Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School in 2008.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6311\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/presentation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6311  \" title=\"presentation1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/presentation1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Michael presents the scholarship to Thane Browne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After completing the summer school, Mr Browne completed high school and achieved the grades for university entry.<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency Dr Ken Michael AC presented Thane with the $3000 scholarship, based on his achievements in the summer school.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering Aid Australia chairman Jim Mantle said the new scholarship commemorated the late Jeff Dobell who founded EAA and had coordinated the summer school since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scholarship is one of the ways EAA tries to encourage students to pursue engineering,&#8221; 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