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BEES Prizegiving 2021
The School of BEES annual prizegiving ceremony took place (online) recently with awards presented across the School. Well done to all the recipients.
| Prize |
Discipline |
Recipient / Nomination |
| Lord Mayor’s Perpetual Trophy Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Laura O'Donovan |
| Savills Prize Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science student in 3rd year on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Tiernan O'Shea and Erin Driscoll |
| Butler Prize Awarded to the top ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt |
Plant Science |
Heidi Liddy |
| Marie Mulcahy Prize Awarded to the best overall final year Zoology student |
Zoology |
Daragh Brown |
| O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Zoology |
Niamh McCaffrey |
| Clive Hutchison Prize Awarded to the best overall final year project in avian research within UCC |
Zoology |
Cian Kelly |
| Crawford Hayes Prize Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt |
Ecology |
Katrina Walsh |
| Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3 |
BEES |
Roisin Voorneveld |
| Devoy Prize Awarded to the top ranking Earth Science project on first attempt. |
Earth Science |
Adrian Tanner |
| Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded to the BSc (Hons) Geology field project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination |
Geology |
Eimear McKenna |
Huge congratulations to all our @uccBEES students from Applied Plant Biology, Geology, Zoology, Ecology & Environmental science who picked up their prizes tonight. Although online, it was still a fab evening. Thanks to the Lord Mayor, all sponsors and supporter @AstridWingler pic.twitter.com/lvru70fA8a
— Barbara Doyle Prestwich PhD (@BarbaraDoylePre) November 22, 2021
FT proudly sponsors the Lord Mayor's Perpetual Trophy annually to recognise academic excellence at @uccBEES This year's Lord Mayor's Perpetual Trophy was presented to Laura O'Donovan. Congrats to Laura and UCC BEES #Classof2021 @KelleherColm
— Fehily Timoney & Co. (@FehilyTimoneyCo) November 22, 2021
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Well done to all of the recipients of the BEES student prizes for 2021. The awards were presented at an online event yesterday evening. pic.twitter.com/FmUVlJgkvo
— Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC (@uccBEES) November 23, 2021
About the prizes:
The Lord Mayor's Perpetual Trophy award is sponsored by Fehily Timony and Company.
The Savills Prize is funded by Savills Auctioneers since the late 1990s.
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 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 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 Clive Hutchinson Prize is awarded in honour of Clive D. Hutchinson, a renowned Irish ornithologist.
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 Nichol Prize is awarded in honour of Professor James Nichol, the first Professor of Geology at University College Cork from 1849-1853.
The Devoy Prize marks the contribution of Professor Robert Devoy with regard to the establishment of the Earth Science degree at UCC.