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School of BEES Awards 2024
At a recent prizegiving ceremony, the School of BEES presented awards to current students and recent graduates who have excelled academically in the past year.
| Prize |
Discipline(s) |
Recipient |
| Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded to the BSc (Hons) mapping project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination |
Geology |
Kara Gupta Final year project: Geology of Seven Heads Peninsula West, Co Cork. Supervisor: Ed Jarvis |
| Lord Mayor’s Perpetual Trophy Awarded to the top-ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Aine Purcell Final year project: Investigating the effect of pH on the growth of Lemna minor on dairy soiled water. Supervisor: Marcel Jansen and Cian Redmond |
| ESAI Undergraduate of Year Award |
Environmental Science |
Aine Purcell |
| The Savills Prize Awarded to the top-ranking Environmental Science student in 3rd year on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Lauren O’Connell |
| Butler Prize Awarded to the top-ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt |
Plant Science |
Grace Lynch Final year project: Phenotypic and genetic engineering of hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) Supervisor: Barbara Doyle Prestwich |
| Maire Mulcahy Prize Awarded to the best overall final year Zoology student
|
Zoology |
Aishling Morrissey Final year project: Wearing thin: A decadal decline in the blubber thickness of three small cetacean species Supervisor: Emer Rogan |
| Clive Hutchinson Prize Awarded to best overall final year project in avian research within UCC |
Zoology |
Brónagh Barnes Final year project: Foraging ecology of Redshanks, Black-Tailed Godwits and Little Egrets and their use of various habitat types within Harper’s Island Wetland Reserve, Cork. Supervisor: John Quinn |
| O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Zoology |
Anna Luczak |
| O’Donnell Environmental 4th year Ecology student of the year Awarded to the top ranking final year EEB student |
Ecology |
Amanda O’Driscoll Final year project: The effect of sound waves on seed germination and plant growth Supervisor: Barbara Doyle Prestwich
|
| O’Donnell Environmental 3rd year Ecology student of the year Awarded to the top ranking 3rd year EEB student |
Ecology |
Student: Sara Goldschmidt
|
| Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3
|
Across all disciplines |
Student: Jeanette Michalopoulou-Bresnihan |
The School of BEES was delighted to host our annual Prizegiving Ceremony this week. A total of eleven prizes were presented to current students and new graduates.@UCC @SEFSUCC pic.twitter.com/PbyTLlYDEj
— Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC (@uccBEES) November 5, 2024
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, former 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 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.
The O'Donnell Environmental Prizes are presented to the best 3rd and 4th year BSc Ecology and Environmental Biology students and is generously supported by O'Donnell Environmental.