Success for Manchester at The Undergraduate Awards 2014
01 Dec 2014
A student from the University has been awarded the George Berkeley Gold Medal by the international awarding body The Undergraduate Awards and a further six Manchester students have been highly commended
The world’s only pan-discipline academic awards programme, The Undergraduate Awards (UA) recognises and rewards innovative young thinkers across 25 disciplines from business and engineering to visual arts and midwifery.
The top performing students are invited to the annual UA Global Summit, which this year took place in Dublin. On Friday, 21 November, 120 winners and highly commended students representing 50 universities attended the medal presentation ceremony in Christ Church Cathedral.
Siddharth Krishnan from The University of Manchester won the Life Sciences Category for his paper Investigating the Role of LRRTM3 in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Characterisation of an LRRTM3 Knock-Out Mouse Model. Siddharth was the overall winner of the category and therefore has been published in the UA Academic Journal 2014.
The following Manchester students were highly commended, meaning that they were in the top 10% of all submissions received by The Undergraduate Awards in 2014:
- Jacob Brunner in the Cultural StudiesCategory
- Harish Kathiresan in the Engineering & Mechanical SciencesCategory
- Eliot Haworth was highly commended in the Life Sciences Category
- Bethany Haworth in the Media & The ArtsCategory
- Ella Szklaruk in the Social Sciences
- Jacob Oware in the Social Sciences Category
The 120 attendees were the top performing entrants out of 4,792 submissions UA received this year from 209 universities across 27 countries.
The Undergraduate Awards also welcomed an inspiring array of thought leaders to speak during the UA Global Summit, including Oscar-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire.
Bethany Haworth said: “Over the last week, I've met a Nobel peace laureate, an ex-NASA researcher shortlisted for the Mars ONE mission, a legal advisor to the UN, and a renowned film-maker who happens to sit in the House of Lords!
“I think the most important thing I took away from the Global Summit this year was that undergraduates are capable of much more than we often believe. I'm delighted to have had the opportunity to attend the event and meet so many amazing people, and I'm looking forward to getting involved in some of the Undergraduate Awards' alumni events early next year.”
The Undergraduate Awards Programme 2015 is now open for submissions and registrations.
Further information
The Undergraduate Awards were founded in partnership with Google, Digicel, the Higher Education Authority and the Department for Employment and Learning.