News 2013
BEES Student Award Ceremony 2013
The BEES Student Award Ceremony 2013 took place recently at the newly launched Cafe Diem at the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Photos from the event are available to view on the BEES Facebook page and will be uploaded to the BEES Photo Gallery shortly. Awards were presented across the range of disciplines in the School of BEES including:
| Prize |
Discipline |
Recipient |
| Mulcahy Prize Best overall final year Zoology student |
Zoology |
Shazia Waheed |
| Butler Prize Awarded to the top ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt |
Plant Science |
Natalie Cunningham |
| Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3 |
BEES |
Jessica Perrott
|
| O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Best third year student Zoology |
Eoin Clarke
|
| Hincks Prize Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Rebecca Mulholland
|
| Devoy Prize Awarded to the top ranking Earth Science project on first attempt |
Earth Science |
Jessica Fine
|
| Crawford Hayes Prize Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt |
Ecology |
Cormac O’Callaghan
|
| Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded for the BSc (Hons) mapping project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination. |
Geology |
Richard Hooton
|
| Belling Bursary Food Award |
MSc in Organic Horticulture |
Michael Gordon and Kitty Scully |
About the prizes:
The Mulcahy Prize is awarded in honour of Prof. Maire Mulcahy, Emerita Professor of Zoology at UCC and the first female Professor of Zoology at the university.
The Butler Prize is presented in honour of Sir Edwin John Butler, UCC graduate in 1898, noted plant pathologist and founding director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology.
The O'Rourke Prize is awarded in honour of Prof. Fergus O'Rourke who served as Chair of Zoology at University College Cork from 1954 to 1982.
The Hincks Prize is named in honour of Rev. William Hincks who was first Professor of Natural History at Cork in 1849.
The Devoy Prize is presented in honour of (and was presented by) Prof. Robert Devoy, School of Geography and Archaeology, UCC.
The Crawford Hayes Prize is presented in honour of Thomas Crawford Hayes. In 1922 Miss Isabelle Hayes bequeathed £27,600 to the National University of Ireland, in memory of her late brother Dr. Thomas Crawford Hayes, for the purpose of "founding or aiding a Chair of Biology in the University and also for the furtherance and promotion of natural knowledge".
The Thorley Sweetman Prize is presented in honour of the late Dr. Thorley Sweetman who was a postgraduate student and subsequently a staff member of the Department of Geology, UCC from 1979 to 1989.
The Belling Bursary is awarded by Sean o'Driscoll and Rose O'Riordan or Glen Dimplex.