A passion to bring new biomedical technologies to underprivileged communities has won UNSW Engineering student Pallavi Gosain a $40,000 scholarship aimed at Australia's next generation of leaders.
She's a whizz at maths, has a degree in fine arts and is studying for a doctorate in neuroscience: now Angela Langdon has won a prestigious scholarship to develop a mathematical model of the brain.
Asked to send its best, Australia chose UNSW student Tanvir Uddin to attend the inaugural One Young World Global Leaders Summit in London, hosted by Sir Bob Geldof, Kofi Annan and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Elizabeth Blaber has become the first Australian student to join the NASA Academy, where she will develop her doctoral research into the effects of space travel on the human body
