He said it was a great day of celebration every year but particularly so this year when the NUI is celebrating the centenary of the foundation in 1908.

 “In this centennial year of the University, it gives me great pleasure to welcome to this awards ceremony the distinguished scholars, graduates and students from the NUI constituent universities and recognised colleges. This year, we are celebrating one hundred years of scholarship in the National University of Ireland, one hundred years of examinations and assessments, projects, practicals, orals, dissertations, theses, where students have risen to the top and been rewarded for excellence.

Universities are called on to fulfil many roles on society. Particularly nowadays, in a society whose prosperity is based on knowledge, universities are called on to be drivers of economic development, to promote innovation and to provide graduates for the workforce with increasingly high level of technological skill.  At their core, however, universities are concerned with academic achievement, with the advancement of knowledge and the promotion of learning.

These core activities of the universities are at the centre of our celebration today. The graduates and students who are receiving awards have excelled in their own universities. They have also been adjudged by the NUI examiners and extern examiners to be outstanding among their peers across all four NUI constituent universities – University College Cork, University College Dublin; National University of Ireland, Galway and National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and including in the case of medicine and nursing, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.”

NUI Awards 2008 - University College Cork

NUI E J Phelan Postgraduate Fellowship in International Law
Mairead Enright
Travelling Studentships awarded in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Daniel Deasy, Katy Dineen, William Ian Magee
Travelling Studentships awarded in the Sciences
Fiona Foley, Eoin Hyde, Thomas Quirke
Dr Mary L Thornton NUI Scholarship in Education
Michael Delargey
The NUI/Denis Phelan Scholarship in Finance
David O’Regan
2nd prize
Caroline Carew
The NUI/Denis Phelan Scholarship in English
Conor Patrick O’Brien
NUI/Denis Phelan Scholarship in Life and Environmental Sciences
Stephen Casey
Mansion House Fund Scholarship in Irish History
Philip Healy
French Government Medals and NUI Prizes for Proficiency in French
Ida Holdus
Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarship in French Scholarship
Garry Sandison
3rd Prize
Brighid Walsh
Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarship in German
3rd Prize
Franziska Goetze
Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarship in Italian Scholarship
William Byrne
Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarship in Latin Scholarship
Nóirín B. Ní Bheaglaoi    
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Anatomy
2nd prize
Don Brandon Stott
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Biochemistry Scholarship
Sheila McSweeney
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in General Practice
3rd prize
Gillian Fitzgerald
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Gynaecology and Obstetrics
2nd prize
Noelle O’Sullivan
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Medicine
3rd prize
Jane Cunningham
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Pathology Scholarship
James Murphy
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Pharmacology Scholarship
Ciara Boomsma
2nd prize
Katie Walsh
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Physiology Scholarship
Dearbhla Kelly
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Paediatrics
2nd prize
William Healy
3rd prize
Ciara McCarthy
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Surgery
3rd prize
Siobhan O’Neill
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Nursing
2nd prize
Heather Beamish
Dr HH Stewart Medical Scholarship in Dentistry
Paul Ryan
2nd prize
Amanda McLaughlin

Picture shows: UCC NUI Award Winners with Dr Garret FitzGerald, Chancellor, NUI, Dr Michael Murphy, President, UCC and NUI Vice-Chancellor, Dr Ray O’Neill, Vice-President for Research, NUI Maynooth,  Professor Jim Browne, President NUI Galway and Dr Attracta Halpin, Registrar, NUI.  

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