Information for current students and staff

We would like to take the opportunity to congratulate our prize-winners from academic year 2017-18 who are as follows:

Graduating Prizes

The Dougall Prizes were founded in 1928 by Charles Shirra Dougall, MA 1894, in "grateful recognition of the encouragement received by the award of the Eglinton Scholarship in 1894". They are awarded annually to the most distinguished students in the Ordinary class of Mathematics. This year, the Dougall prize was awarded to Thomas Fletcher and Robert Wishart for Level 5 and Nikolaos Antonopoulos, Jasmine Brune, Jemma Doherty, David Graham, Paul Leask, Julie Lynch, Micheil McDonald, Cameron McLauchlan, Theodora Nearchou, Ruaraidh Osborne, Theodoros Papazachariou, Julien Putz and Rebecca Slowey for Level 4.

Founded in 1991 by Ede and Ravenscroft, robe makers to the University, and awarded annually to the most distinguished Science graduates of the year. The Ede and Ravenscroft award from the College was presented to Chiara Lattanzi.

Archibald and Janet R McAulay Memorial Prizes were founded in 1980 by the gift of Mr AH McAulay, MA, BSc 1925, FSA, of New York, in memory of his parents. The Archibald McAulay Memorial Prize is awarded for distinction in the honours examination in Physics, and the Janet R McAulay Memorial Prize is awarded for distinction in the honours examination in Mathematics. This year the, Janet R McAulay Memorial Prize was awarded to Andrew Beckett.

The Shell Prize, for best overall fourth year student in Statistics was awarded to two students this year, Chiara Lattanzi and Zhuo Sun.

Werner Weiglhofer died in January 2003 in an avalanche on the slopes of Bispen, in the Romsdal Alps in Norway, while snow-shoeing. The Department of Mathematics set up a fund in his memory, to provide an annual prize in his name for the best Honours project. This year, the Weiglhofer prize was awarded to Oliver Allen for Level 5 and Andreas Drakopoulos and Sarah Rose Muldoon for Level 4.

IMA prize is awarded for outstanding achievement in final year of mathematics to Nikolaos Antonopoulos and Scott Stirling.

Undergraduate Prizes

Level 3

The SAS prize in Statistics, awarded annually to the best mark or the best performance in level 3, was received by Padraig O’Hara and Junya Wen.

The Cunninghame Medal and Prize was founded in 1866 by Andrew Cunninghame, Town Clerk Depute of Glasgow. It is awarded annually to the most distinguished student in the Advanced Honours class of Mathematics. This year it was received by Giovanni Natale, Stamatis Spyriounis and Martin Vrabec.
Cunninghame Prize was awarded to Gordon McNicol.

The Lang Scholarship awarded annually, on the recommendation of Heads of School, was awarded to David Nkansah.

Level 2

The Dougall prize was also awarded to the following students in Level 2 – Simona Bianco, Marek Bojko, Sarunas Kaubrys, Sonja Kraiczy, Andreea Musat and Cameron Wilson.

The Ford-Forrest Bursaries were founded in 1989 by the bequest of Helen M Forrest, MA 1927. One bursary is awarded to the woman student obtaining the highest-class marks for her year in the Higher Ordinary Mathematics class and one to the woman student obtaining the highest-class marks for her year in the Physics 2(A) class. This year, it was awarded to Sonja Kraiczy.

The M Muir prize was awarded to Marek Bojko, Sarunas Kaubrys and Sonja Kraiczy.

Awarded annually to the best overall student in Statistics Level 2, the SD Silvey prize was awarded to four students this year – Giulia Carfora, Joseph Connon, Alexandros Karamallis and Justyna Mlynarczyk.

Level 1

Class 1X/1Y

The Dougall prize was also awarded to Denica Nedjalkova in class 1X/1Y.

The Lorimer prize was awarded to Joonas Kartau and Josep Perna Montane.

The M Muir prize was awarded to Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi.

Class S1Y/Z

The John Aitchison prize for best overall performance in Statistics 1Y was awarded to David Zacek and for Statistics 1Z was awarded to Samuel Gurský.

 

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First published: 5 October 2018