Undergraduate Awards 2015 - UPresent

It is Thursday, and the award winning undergraduate students are presenting their work in snappy 3 minute sketches of their research. Subjects range from coping with war to alcoholism, new materials to gender bias, modelling cancer to historical interventions on the Taj Mahal. Students from Singapore to the the Czech Republic.

The spread is all-encompassing - an eclectic mix of all aspects of human experience, and in every area, from cyberbullying to the visual arts, it is clear that huge changes are in progress.

Not only are these brilliant and sparkling young people capable of characterising and managing the huge changes which are afoot, they are thoroughly comfortable in this most dynamic of modern worlds.

Undergraduate Awards 2015 - Awards Ceremony

The 2015 Undergraduate Awards ceremony and formal dinner took place last night at Dublin City Hall and Dublin Castle. Twenty five of the world's best undergraduates were presented with their gold medals by Michael Higgins, The President of the Republic of Ireland.

This Irish-inspired competition aims to identify the leaders and creative thinkers of the next generation. This year there were submissions from 255 institutions in 39 countries around the world. The ceremony is a high point in a week-long gathering of the very best of these students in Dublin to collaborate and consider the world's problems. Their presence reflects praise on themselves and on the institutions of the Republic of Ireland and the administration of The Awards. The Undergraduate Awards are now the premier and largest undergraduate competition in the world.

Undergraduate Awards 2015 - Congratulations to the winners of the Earth and Environmental Sciences section

Tomorrow the 2015 Undergraduate Awards will be presented in Dublin by Michael Higgins, the President of the Republic of Ireland.

The Overall Winner of the Earth and Environmental Sciences section of the Undergraduate Awards 2015 is Katelin Hanson of the University of Edinburgh for her analysis of offshore wind power potential in Oregon.

The Programme Winner of the Earth and Environmental Sciences section of the Undergraduate Awards 2015 is Karen O'Neill of University College Cork for her work on the conservation of the Freshwater Pearl Mussel.

As chairman of the panel of judges for the Earth and Environmental Sciences panel, and on behalf of the judges of that panel, I would like to offer my most sparkling of congratulations to both of the winners, and recognition of the insight and importance of their work.