News 2015

BEES Student Prize-giving Ceremony

25 Feb 2015

An event was held today to present awards to students across the School of BEES for academic distinction.

The annual School of BEES Student Prize-Giving Ceremony took place at the North Mall campus and recognised the outstanding performance of students across the school disciplines. You can find photos from the ceremony below and on the BEES Facebook Page. Awards were presented, as follows:

 

Prize

Discipline

Recipient

Mulcahy Prize

 

 

Zoology

Louise Archer

Rising Star Award

Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3

 

BEES

Thomas O’Toole

O’Rourke Prize

Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt

Best third year student Zoology

Jane Delaney

Crawford Hayes Prize

Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt

Ecology

Amanda Nevin

Thorley Sweetman

 

 

Geology

Hugh O’Keeffe

Nichol Prize

Awarded to the top ranking Geology research project on first attempt

Geology

Brennus Voarino

Devoy Prize

Awarded to the top ranking Earth Science project on first attempt

Earth Science

Stephanie Arcusa

Hincks Prize

Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt

Environmental Science

Elizabeth Grainger

Butler Prize

Awarded to the top ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt

Plant Science

Cliona Byrne

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.

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

An Scoil Eolaíochtaí Bitheolaíocha, Domhaneolaíocha agus Comhshaoil

Distillery Fields, North Mall, University College Cork, Ireland , T23 N73K.

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