Olivia Tidswell, a former Tauranga Girls’ College student, participated in the 2009 – 2010 NZIBO programme. NZIBO is incredibly proud of her as she has won one of the five Wellcome Trust doctorate scholarships to Cambridge University in Britain. This is an incredibly prestigious scholarship, worth nearly $300,000 and will allow Olivia to complete her doctorate in developmental biology.
Read about her scholarship here
Olivia has just finished an honours degree in genetics at Otago University after completing her double major in genetics and zoology. She talks about her time in our programme on our alumni page. http//www.nzibo.org/nzibo/alumni-stories/