Trinity Students Excel at International Undergraduate Awards

Posted on: 02 October 2015

The Undergraduate Awards (UA) recently announced its 2015 Winners and Highly Commended Entrants with Trinity students and graduates taking nine awards and 38 High Commendations. Cited as the ultimate champion of high-potential undergraduates, and often referred to as a “junior Nobel Prize”, The Undergraduate Awards is the world’s largest academic awards programme, recognising excellent research and original work across the sciences, humanities, business and creative arts. This year the programme received 5,117 submissions from undergraduates in 255 universities across 39 countries. Winners are the top performers in each of the 25 categories.

Trinity’s Ruth Murphy, was the overall winner in the Social Sciences category for her paper titled ‘Revelations of an Anti-Genesis: the Muselmann, Primo Levi and Viktor Frankl’

Trinity’s Programme winners are:

Daniel Kelly, Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences category. Winning Paper: ‘Characterisation Of Post-Mortem Electrodes Using Electron Microscopy’

Rónán O’Connor, Economics category. Winning Paper ‘Unexpected Expectations: An Investigation of the Socioeconomic Factors that influence Parental Academic Expectations for their Child’

Pamela Holmes, History category. Winning Paper: ‘A View From the Skies: An Examination of the Development of Civil Aviation in Ireland in the 1930s’

Niamh McShane, Languages & Linguistics category. Winning Paper ‘Moral Law in the works of Anselm Kiefer’ What Moral Questions Does Anselm Kiefer Raise in His Work and How Does He Explore the Function and Reasoning of Human Morality in Relation to the Holocaust?’

Yewhoan Hong, Law category. Winning Paper: ‘Rewarping the Constitutional orbit: the Bohr Model of Contemporary Socio-Legal World’

Aisling McHugh, Medical Sciences category. Winning Paper: ‘The Immunomodulatory Activities of Metformin’

Matthew Malone, Music, Film, Theatre & Art History category. Winning Paper: ‘A New Dialogue: Angels in America and Reclaiming the American Theatre’

Veronica Mariz Pinto Scalco, Nursing & Midwifery category. Winning Paper: ‘Patients’ Views of Bedside Handover in Hospital: A Literature Review’

“This is a fantastic achievement for Trinity and its undergraduates,” commended UA’s Executive Director Louise Hodgson. “Only the very top students from each university can submit their coursework, and The Undergraduate Awards identifies the very best of the best. With over 5,000 submissions from so many universities this year, the competition was extremely tough. Congratulations to all our 2015 Winners and Highly Commended Entrants!”

Winners and Highly Commended Entrants are invited to receive their Gold Medals and meet their fellow awardees at the annual UA Global Summit, taking place in Dublin on November 10th-13th. The Summit will be addressed by the likes of philosopher AC Grayling, physicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, photographer Giles Dudley, human genome sequencer Craig Venter, and the world’s youngest professor Dr. Alia Sabur, (aged 26) among many more speakers and facilitators.