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BEES Prizegiving 2015
The BEES Prizegiving 2015 took place recently at the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Awards were presented across the range of disciplines in the School of BEES, honouring student achievement including:
(Pictures below)
Prize |
Discipline |
Recipient |
Mulcahy Prize Best overall final year Zoology student |
Zoology |
Jane Delaney |
Butler Prize Awarded to the top ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt |
Plant Science |
Katie Hetherington and Ciara Beausang |
Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3 |
BEES |
Sheila Daly
|
O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Best third year student Zoology |
Susanna Dominguez-Garcia
|
Lord Mayor's Perpetual Trophy Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Sarah Broderick
|
Devoy Prize Awarded to the top ranking Earth Science project on first attempt |
Earth Science |
Joshua O'Sullivan-Hourihan
|
Crawford Hayes Prize Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt |
Ecology |
Diarmuid Hayes
|
Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded for the BSc (Hons) mapping project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination. |
Geology |
Sarah Galloway
|
Savills Prize
|
Environmental Science |
Cormac Halley |
Nichol Prize
|
Geology |
Aidan Jarvis |
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, noted plant pathologist and founding director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology.
The Nichol Prize is awarded in honour of Professor James Nichol, the first Professor of Geology at University College Cork from 1849-1853.
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 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.
Sarah Broderick collects the Lord Mayor's Trophy for top ranking environmental science graduate at BEES Prizegiving pic.twitter.com/rRd4fKZIlw
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Cormac Hally receives the Savills Prize for best 3rd year Environmental Science student at the recent BEES Awards pic.twitter.com/GqBUaNUtJ2
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Sarah Galloway collects the Thorley Sweetman prize with Geology staff at a recent ceremony pic.twitter.com/HT3DuTk3PB
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Aidan Jarvis picks up the Nichol Prize for top ranking Geology project at the recent BEES prizegiving event. pic.twitter.com/9ZVxTFjSHP
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Joshua O'Sullivan-Hourihan collects the Devoy Prize in Earth Science from Prof Robert Devoy pic.twitter.com/mTHXOQJglq
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Katie Hetherington & Ciara Beausang collect the Butler Prizes in Plant Science at the recent BEES Prizegiving. pic.twitter.com/B1NaJu1eYm
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Prof. Maire Mulcahy presents the Mulcahy Prize in Zoology to Jane Delaney at the recent BEES Prizegiving pic.twitter.com/I7CxhiewKh
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Sheila Daly collects the BEES Rising Star award at the recent BEES Prizegiving pic.twitter.com/i2QrqvVHOi
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Susanna Dominguez-Garcia receives the O'Rourke Prize from Prof. Gavin Burnell at the recent BEES Prizegiving. pic.twitter.com/WD4zztf5ce
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015
Diarmuid Hayes collects the Crawford Hayes Prize in Ecology at the recent BEES Prizegiving. pic.twitter.com/TcJCTN6rXN
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES)
October 23, 2015