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BEES marks student achievements in online ceremony
The traditional BEES prizegiving ceremony made way for an online presentation of awards this year.
On Thursday evening, the 19th of November, awards were presented across the range of disciplines and programmes in the School of BEES, honouring student achievement including:
| Prize |
Discipline |
Recipient |
| Lord Mayor’s Perpetual Trophy Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt. Sponsored by Fehily Timony and Company |
Environmental Science |
Rodhrai Crowley |
| Savills Prize Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science student in 3rd year on first attempt. Funded by Savills Auctioneers |
Environmental Science |
Laura Ni Dhonnabháin |
| Butler Prize Awarded to the top ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt. |
Plant Science |
Ellen Bradley |
| Mulcahy Prize Awarded to the best overall final year Zoology student within UCC.​ |
Zoology |
Evan Hickey |
| O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Zoology |
Daragh Brown |
| Clive Hutchison Prize Awarded to the best overall final year project in avian research within UCC |
Zoology |
Roisin Towe |
| Crawford Hayes Prize Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt |
Ecology |
Grace Wall |
| Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3 |
BEES (Environmental Science) |
Christopher Brennan |
| Devoy Prize Awarded to the top ranking Earth Science project on first attempt. |
Earth Science |
Orla Killeen |
| Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded to the BSc (Hons) Geology mapping project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination. |
Geology |
Jointly awarded to: Kenneth Hurley & Benjamin Latimer |
Yesterday evening, the annual School of BEES prize giving ceremony took place online. Well done to all the recipients.
— Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC (@uccBEES)
More images from the annual School of BEES prize giving ceremony which took place online. Well done to all the recipients.
— Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC (@uccBEES)
Final group of images from the annual School of BEES prize giving ceremony which took place online. Well done to all the recipients.
— Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC (@uccBEES)
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. Máire 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 ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã 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 ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã 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 ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã 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 Thorley Sweetman prize is awarded in honour of the late Dr Thorley Sweetman a postgraduate student and subsequently a staff member of the Department of Geology UCC from 1979-1989.
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