The life of Lincoln University graduate Morgan Easton has been marked by many notable turns and achievements.
At school in Dunedins, John McGlashan College, the farming son from Hakataramea was a prefect and head boarder. He completed Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Awards and represented both his school and North Otago in tennis.
In 2001 he came to Lincoln University to study agricultural science and in his second year won a Diary Industry Undergraduate Scholarship.
From Lincoln he spent a year on exchange at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, before graduating Bachelor of Agricultural Science in April 2005.
The promise he showed at Lincoln won him a position with Dexcel as a consulting officer for the Otago region.
Now, this year, Morgan has won a Fulbright award which will take him back to the United States to study for a Master of Science degree at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
On 14 June Morgan was one of 12 New Zealand graduates to receive inaugural Fulbright-Ministry of Research, Science and Technology Graduate Awards at the 2006 Fulbright Ceremony in Parliament Buildings. Twenty-two graduates in total received Fulbright awards this year under four different categories.
Morgan and his group received their awards from the Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Steve Maharey.
The Fulbright-Ministry of Research, Science and Technology Graduate Awards are for promising young graduates to undertake postgraduate study or research at a United States institution in areas targeted to support growth and innovation in New Zealand. This includes areas such as food and agriculture.
For his MSc at Purdue Morgan will specialise in agribusiness strategy and management.
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