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Massey student is fourth Zonta winner in a row

Tuesday 6 September 2011, 7:18PM

By Massey University

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Rosana Cooper, Zonta Club of Manawatu president Dr Jo Innes and club members Anne Weir and Anne Walker, who are both Massey University staff members.
Rosana Cooper, Zonta Club of Manawatu president Dr Jo Innes and club members Anne Weir and Anne Walker, who are both Massey University staff members. Credit: Massey University

A finance and mathematics undergraduate has become the fourth Massey University student in a row to win an outstanding female business student award.

Rosana Cooper received the Zonta District 16 Jane M Klausman Women in Business Scholarship for the New Zealand region and more than $2000 in prize money.

Her entry will now go to a judging panel for the international award and the chance to win a US$5000 scholarship.

Ms Cooper says she was inspired to apply for the scholarship by her sister, Genevieve, who won the international award in 2008, graduated from Massey and is now working in corporate finance at Deloitte.

“I am delighted that as sisters we both have been recipients of the Zonta JMK Women in Business Scholarship,” she says.

The fourth-year student, from Wanganui, says her scholarship will help her complete her conjoint Bachelor of Business Studies-Bachelor of Science degree and the support from Zonta will be invaluable for her future career.

“I have a passion for agribusiness in New Zealand and I am very fortunate to have been offered a business graduate role with Fonterra commencing next year,” she says. “I am particularly interested in optimisation where I can utilise the finance and mathematics skills I have studied at Massey.”

Ms Cooper is a member of the College of Business Dean’s List for students who gain an A-minus average or above for the year and has won a senior mathematics award as well as an NZ Dairy Scholarship.

The Jane M Klausman Women in Business Scholarship was established in 1998 as a result of a bequest by Jane Klausman, a business woman and Zonta member from New York. It is awarded to an outstanding female student in her final year of a business degree.

Since 1998, Zonta has awarded almost 200 scholarships across 39 countries. To be eligible to enter for a Jane M Klausman international scholarship, the applicant must first have been nominated by a local Zonta Club and have won the national round. Ms Cooper’s entry was nominated by the Zonta Club of Manawatu.

The results of the international judging round will be announced in mid-October.