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BEES Awards 2022
A range of awards were presented at the recent School of BEES prizegiving event.
The prizes were presented to students who excelled in their various disciplines during their time as an undergraduate at BEES. The following awards were presented at the event:
| Prize |
Discipline |
Recipient / Nomination |
| Lord Mayor’s Perpetual Trophy Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Erin Driscoll |
| Savills Prize Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science student in 3rd year on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Rebecca Mulkeen |
| Butler Prize Awarded to the top ranking Applied Plant Biology graduate on first attempt |
Applied Plant Biology |
Sorcha Doyle |
| Marie Mulcahy Prize Awarded to the best overall final year Zoology student |
Zoology |
Niamh McCaffrey |
| O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Zoology |
Alec Schmidt |
| Clive Hutchison Prize Awarded to the best overall final year project in avian research within UCC |
BEES |
Emma Caulfield |
| Crawford Hayes Prize Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt |
Ecology |
Ruth O'Connell |
| Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3 |
BEES |
Dylan Moore |
| Devoy Prize Awarded to the top ranking Earth Science project on first attempt. |
Earth Science |
Jason MacPhaidin |
| Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded to the BSc (Hons) Geology field project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination |
Geology |
Muireann Walsh |
Well done to all the recipients of BEES student awards this year. The winners were presented with their prizes at a recent event at the School of BEES.@UCC @eriucc @SEFSUCC pic.twitter.com/1Wsmm6IZUD
— Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC (@uccBEES) November 10, 2022
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 Devoy Prize marks the contribution of Professor Robert Devoy with regard to the establishment of the Earth Science degree at UCC.
The late Dr. Thorley Sweetman was a postgraduate student and subsequently a staff member of the Department of Geology from 1979 to 1989. To mark his significant contribution to the department, his family, colleagues and students have provided for an annual prize for the best BSc (Hons) Geology mapping project.