5 November 2013

Life Sciences students to be rewarded for excellence

Photo opportunity: 5.20pm on Friday 8th November at D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee.

Outstanding academic performance by Life Sciences students at the University of Dundee will be recognised at a prize-giving ceremony this week.

Forty-five students will be congratulated for their hard work when the Life Sciences Learning & Teaching Student Awards takes place at the D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre on Friday, 8th November. This annual event celebrates the achievements of top-achieving students from the last academic year.

Professor David Coates, Dean of Learning & Teaching at the College of Life Sciences, said, 'I would like to congratulate all prize-winners on their awards. They have worked hard to excel in their studies and seeing these high-achieving students receiving their awards will help to inspire their peers to do the same.

'This is an important evening for the College of Life Sciences and one I am personally delighted to participate in each year. It is a pleasure to help teach such able and committed students. We are justly proud of them and I'm sure they will continue to shine, regardless of the career path they choose to follow after graduation.'

The 2013 top prize-winner is 23-year-old Emma Bissett from Kinross, who has just obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Microbiology. She will pick up three awards at the ceremony - the Sir James Black Award for Outstanding Achievement, the British Association 1939 Prize (Medal), and the Molecular Biology Honours Prize

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