University of Tasmania Foundation

The UTAS Foundation is the vital fundraising arm of the University.  Its activities help to ensure UTAS remains a vibrant institution - a leader in education that produces quality graduates and research connected to the businesses and industries of Tasmania.

Gifts to the Foundation promote excellence, innovation and participation at UTAS.  Support from our alumni and friends is critically important to ensure that the University continues to fulfil its mission as Tasmania's university and is able to make a significant contribution to the cultural, economic and social development of the state.

Menzies Research Institute Tasmania
Stage II Campaign

Excellence in health care demands excellence in scientific discovery, education and training.

Menzies is first and foremost about improving health and saving lives. The Institute is renowned internationally for its innovative research that utilises the unique competitive advantages Tasmania offers, including our island geography, stable population and our extensive genealogical records.We are at the forefront in the fight against disease and intensely committed to this global call for action through ongoing advances in research excellence.

You have a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity to be part of building one of the Southern Hemisphere’s top medical research centres. When Stage II of the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania (Menzies) is completed in early 2013, some $150 million in new buildings (Stages I and II) will ensure that Menzies continues to directly contribute to better health outcomes for all Tasmanians and all Australians for decades to come.

Read more or donate now to the Menzies Stage II Campaign.

Meet the 2012 Foundation Graduate Award Recipients

Meet the 2012 Foundation Graduate Award recipients, Simon Hollingsworth BCom-LLB Hons and Brodie Neill BFA Hons. A world-class athlete, Olympian and Rhodes Scholar, Simon Hollingsworth has excelled in a diverse career and now has a national leadership role as Chief Executive of the Australian Sports Commission. Brodie Neill has carved out a career in a very competitive field, gaining international acclaim in furniture design. Pursuing his career in New York, Milan, London and Paris, Brodie has earned high regard from international clients and the peak of peer review with coverage from publications such as Time Magazine. The 2012 Distinguished Alumni, Professor Rupert Maclean AO, was recognised at the Launceston Foundation Dinner in April. Professor Maclean gained his PhD at UTAS and has enjoyed a stellar international career in education including the Founding Director of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education.

Read more about the 2012 recipients and how you can make a nomination for the 2013 Awards

2012 Annual Appeal - Open to Talent

No matter the size of your gift, supporting the Annual Appeal has an immediate and positive impact, creating life-changing experiences that last students a lifetime.

Through the Annual Appeal you can support the Annual Appeal Scholarships and the Development Fund. Alternatively, you can designate your gift to a program, faculty or appeal that matters most to you such as the Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal, the Old Hobartian Centenary Scholarship, the Arthur Cobbold Memorial Lecture Appeal or the faculty where you studied. Whatever you choose to support, your contribution will make a life-changing impact on the current and future students of UTAS. Read more or Donate Online.

Old Hobartian Centenary Scholarship

2013 marks the centenary of the founding of Hobart High School and its successor institutions, Hobart Matriculation College and Hobart College. To celebrate the significant milestone in educational attainment for Tasmania, the Old Hobartian Association has launched an appeal to former students and to the wider community to raise the capital funds needed to create a perpetual scholarship. The Old Hobartian Centenary Scholarship from 2013 onwards will annually support students graduating from Hobart College to study in any discipline at the University of Tasmania. Read more or Donate online 

Dr Judith Homeshaw Scholarship

The late Dr Judith Homeshaw was a loved and respected member of staff in the School of Government. Family, friends and colleagues have launched an appeal to raise funds to create an annual scholarship in her name for a student entering an honours course at UTAS.

The Dr Judith Homeshaw Scholarship will support a student in any faculty whose honours thesis will relate to those areas which Judith was passionate about: Women's participation in the contemporary Australian public sphere with respect to any of: work and employment; government; politics; health care; or science.

Contemporary public policy in Australia with respect to any of: women; science; health care; or policy community theory.

The inaugural scholarship will be awarded to a student commencing honours in the 2012 academic year. Your donation will be gratefully received and will assist in making this scholarship a most fitting tribute to Judith and her work.  All donations are tax deductible in Australia.
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Arthur Cobbold Memorial Lecture Appeal

No early alumnus of the UTAS School of Medicine needs an introduction to Arthur Cobbold. From 1964, when he arrived as Foundation Professor of Physiology, to his retirement 21 years later – with 13 of those years as Dean of Medicine – he very much shaped the School and the lives of many of those in it. It is a fitting memorial to the late Professor Cobbold that an annual lecture on contemporary medical issues will again influence medical thinking in Tasmania and that the support to endow this lecture in perpetuity will come from those who were themselves most closely influenced by his work and mentorship.
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Leo Cooper-White Memorial Scholarship Appeal

The family and friends of Leo Cooper-White, together with the UTAS Foundation, are seeking support for the Leo Cooper-White Memorial Scholarship Appeal which will establish a scholarship at the University of Tasmania’s School of Visual and Performing Arts (SVPA). Leo was a third year student at the UTAS School of Visual and Performing Arts. On 18 March 2011, Leo’s life was cut short in a tragic accident. We are aiming to raise $30,000 which the UTAS Foundation has agreed to match dollar for dollar for a total of $60,000, to endow an annual scholarship in Leo’s name.
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