2009 Press Releases
UCC student awarded medal for first place in Leaving Cert Physics
21.01.2009
Each year the Institute of Physics in Ireland presents a Silver Medal for the Highest Level of Achievement in the Physics Leaving Certificate. This year, the Medal has been awarded to UCC student, Paul Fitzgerald, a former pupil of Christian Brothers College, Sidney Hill, Cork.
21.01.2009
Each year the Institute of Physics in Ireland presents a Silver Medal for the Highest Level of Achievement in the Physics Leaving Certificate. This year, the Medal has been awarded to UCC student, Paul Fitzgerald, a former pupil of Christian Brothers College, Sidney Hill, Cork.
Paul, now studying Architecture at UCC is a native of Ballinhassig, Co. Cork. Paul shares the award with Fionnuala Connolly from the Dominican College in Galway and James Long from the Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick. The medal was presented to Paul by Dr Síle Nic Chormaic, Lecturer at the Physics Department, UCC representing the Institute of Physics in Ireland. The presentation took place prior to the Annual Tyndall Lecture at UCC’s Brookfield Health Sciences Complex. The lecture is one of a series organised nationwide by the Institute of Physics in Ireland for schools.
The Institute of Physics is a leading international professional body and learned society with over 37,000 members, which promotes the advancement and dissemination of a knowledge of and education in the science of physics, pure and applied. It has a world-wide membership and is a major international player in: scientific publishing and electronic dissemination of physics; setting professional standards for physicists and awarding professional qualifications; promoting physics through scientific conferences, education and science policy advice.
Photographed at the Presentation were L-R: Mr Frank Cotter, Physics Teacher, CBC, Dr Síle Nic Chormaic, Paul Fitzgerald and Dr Paul Callanan, Physics Department, UCC.
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The Institute of Physics is a leading international professional body and learned society with over 37,000 members, which promotes the advancement and dissemination of a knowledge of and education in the science of physics, pure and applied. It has a world-wide membership and is a major international player in: scientific publishing and electronic dissemination of physics; setting professional standards for physicists and awarding professional qualifications; promoting physics through scientific conferences, education and science policy advice.
Photographed at the Presentation were L-R: Mr Frank Cotter, Physics Teacher, CBC, Dr Síle Nic Chormaic, Paul Fitzgerald and Dr Paul Callanan, Physics Department, UCC.
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