News 2023
School of BEES Awards 2023
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. See here for more information on each of the School of BEES prizes.
| Prize |
Discipline |
Recipient |
| Quercus Scholar |
Applied Plant Biology |
Grace Lynch |
| Lord Mayor’s Perpetual Trophy Awarded to the top-ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Student: Isabel Gogarty-Meade Final year project: Carbon Storage and Peat Accretion in a Saltwater Marsh in Cork City Supervisor: Dr Michelle McKeown |
| ESAI Undergraduate of Year Award |
Environmental Science |
Student: Isabel Gogarty-Meade
|
| The Savills Prize Awarded to the top-ranking Environmental Science student in 3rd year on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Student: Aine Purcell |
| Butler Prize Awarded to the top-ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt |
Plant Science |
Student: Luke Ring Final year project: Effect of salinity on growth capacity of Duckweed (Lemnaceae) Supervisor: Prof. Marcel Jansen |
| Maire Mulcahy Prize Awarded to the best overall final year Zoology student
|
ZoologyQuercus Scholar |
Student: Katie Grice Final year project: Object neophobia and fear of humans are interlinked but only weakly predict sociability in the Eurasian Coot Supervisor: Prof. John Quinn |
| Clive Hutchinson Prize awarded to best overall final year project in avian research within UCC |
Zoology |
Student: Katie Grice Title of project: Object neophobia and fear of humans are interlinked but only weakly predict sociability in the Eurasian Coot Supervisor: Prof.John Quinn |
| O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Zoology |
Student: Fiona Byrne |
| Crawford Hayes Prize Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt |
Ecology |
Student: Colm Breslin, Title of project: Living in the city: Relationship between urban bat activity and community composition with land cover and environmental variables. Supervisor: Dr Fidelma Butler
|
| Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3
|
Across all disciplines |
Ellen Marnane, Geology |
| Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded to the BSc (Hons) mapping project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination |
Geology |
Caoimhe Timmins,
Title of project: The Geology of Ardmore and surrounding coastline, Co Waterford. Supervisor: Dr Chris Mays |
| Devoy Prize Awarded to the top-ranking Earth Science project on first attempt |
Earth Science |
Cara Brennan
Title of project:. A Geohazard Assessment: Offshore Cork: 1st Results from Marine Magnetometry Supervisor: Aaron Lim |
About the School of BEES undergraduate 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.