Awards for outstanding students

Awards and prizes have been presented to mark the hard work and dedication of students from across the University at a number of recent award ceremonies.

The outstanding achievements of almost forty students from Law and Accountancy were celebrated at the faculty's annual prize-giving event. Chris Hicks, a second year accountancy student, picked up an impressive seven awards including class medals for his exceptional academic performance, the Ernst & Young Prize, Douglas G Wilson prize and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and the Accountancy prize. Second year law student, Karen Mackay, was presented with three awards at the ceremony including the Henry Scrymgeour Prize in Law and Society and the George R Donald prize of £500.

Dean of the Faculty of Law and Accountancy, Professor Colin Reid said, "This is always a very happy occasion when we can take pride in the performance of our students."

The external bodies and companies who sponsor the awards also presented a number of the prizes. Colin added, "The faculty values its strong links with professional bodies, firms and individual donors and this gives the University the chance to thank them for their continuing support and to show off the quality of the students at the University."

Over sixty students from the School of Life Sciences were also congratulated at their annual prize-giving ceremony.

4th year Sports Biomedicine student Lee Hamilton picked up four awards including an Armitstead Bursary award, the British Association 1939 Prize as well as the Clinical Exercise Physiology and Molecular Exercise Physiology medals.

Dr Jim Elliott Head of Life Sciences Teaching Unit said, "It is a pleasure to celebrate the substantial accomplishments of these students. We all look forward to sharing in the continuing successes of this up and coming generation of life scientists."

Christine Magill, a third year Interactive Media Design student who was recently named 'Most Enterprising Student in Northern Ireland 2004', by the Shell Technology Enterprise Programme, was awarded the second year NCR Information Technology prize at the Department of Applied Computing's prize giving event.

Recent graduate, Alasdair Milne, Scotland's Young Software Engineer of the Year, was presented with the British Computing Society prize for top honours student in Applied Computing.

Over thirty students and recent graduates were presented with book tokens and awards. Dr Janet Hughes, Lecturer in the Division of Applied Computing said, "It is rewarding that leading companies in Scotland recognise the tremendous quality of our students. Applied Computing is going from strength to strength: we have new courses, such as E-Commerce Computing, and will move into our new building - the Queen Mother Centenary Research Centre - next year."

Five post graduate students from the University have also received cheques from the Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee today to help fund training in building management.

Malcolm Horner, Deputy Principal and Professor of Construction Management said, "The University is delighted that the Nine Incorporated trades are helping fund post graduate study in such a critical area. All over the world, building management and the development of infrastructure are key to countries' economies. We are training students so they have the highly developed skills in building management. I hope the Nine Incorporated Trades will continue to support our students in the coming years."