| The Global Undergraduate Awards | |
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| Country: | Ireland |
The Global Undergraduate Awards (often referred to as the Junior Nobel Prize[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]) is an academic awards program recognising undergraduate work. Prizes are awarded to 25 disciplines by a non-profit organisation under the patronage of the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins.[7]
The Global Undergraduate Awards (UA) was founded in 2008 in Dublin as The Undergraduate Awards.[8] The programme was originally open to students from Ireland's universities.
In 2012, UA expanded to accept submissions from every Third Level Institution on the Island of Ireland as well as the top twenty universities in Britain, USA and Canada.[9]
In 2016, the UA Programme was split into seven regions: Africa & Middle East, Asia, Europe, Island of Ireland, Latin America, Oceania, US & Canada.[10]
Entrants submit their work to one of 25 categories, which represent a wide range of academic disciplines: Architecture & Design, Art History & Theory, Business, Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Classical Studies & Archaeology, Computer Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics, Education, Engineering, History, Linguistics, Law, Life Sciences, Literature, Mathematics & Physics, Medical Sciences, Music, Film & Theatre, Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Healthcare, Philosophy, Politics & International Relations, Psychology, Anthropology & Cultural Studies, Sociology & Social Policy and Visual Arts.
The submissions are evaluated anonymously by a group of international academics. The top 10% of entries from each region in each category are named Highly Commended. The highest performing Highly Commended entrant from each region is named a Regional Winner of their category, while the best Highly Commended Entrant is named the Global Winner.
Entrants whose submission is selected as the best in their category are named Global Winners.[11] These winners are invited to present their work in Dublin at the Global Undergraduate Awards Summit. Each winner is awarded with a gold medal.
| Category | Global Winner 2022[12] | Global Winner 2021[13] | Global Winner 2020[14] | Global Winner 2019[15] | Global Winner 2018[16] | Global Winner 2017[17] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture & Design | Zareen Tasneem Sharif | Riad Tabbara | Aishwarya Sriram | Prathyush Pradeep | Karen El Asmar | Martha Andrews |
| Art History & Theory | Sahil Tiku | Piper Prolago | Zoe Voice | Claudia Haines | Jun Yan Chua | Eden Gelgoot |
| Business | Katie McGrath | Jill Humby | Shawn Liu | Xi Ning Seet | Brian Heffernan | Robert Sarich |
| Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences | Oliver Hervir | Ali Abdelfadil | Jingfei Ren | Kang Rui Garrick Lim | Li Ling Tan | Phillip Karpati |
| Classical Studies & Archaeology | Maggie Tighe | Emily Kerrison | Edward Foster | Juhi Patel | Amelia Halls | Melanie Hechenberger |
| Computer Science | Guruprerana Shabadi | Chen Sihao | Kayo Yin | Harry She | Cristian Bodnar | Dinh Luan Nguyen |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | Kenna White | Yilin Zhang | Alice Walker | Amy Campbell | Lyndsay Walsh | Bridget Murphy |
| Economics | Victor Sosanya | Beatriz Sasse | Ishita Kumar | Stefan Pricopie | Shamus Lee | Daniel Cueva |
| Education | Matthew Gover | Roxanne Lau | Pearlwe Chau | Laura DeSousa | Sylvia Lee | Farhana Choudhury |
| Engineering | Bailey Thompson,Bruce Gillespie,Adam Kidd &Parth Vachharajani | Lim Si Xian | Febby Krisnadi | Aayush Chadha | Michaela Taylor-Williams | Amber Tan |
| History | Calvin Heng | Hannah Kern-Cheng | Keith Ó Riain | Lauren Goodall | Matthew Barton | |
| Law | Julia Best | Amrita Deshmukh | Genevieve Ding | Andrew Ray | Melany Toombs | Kathy Liu |
| Life Sciences | Alex Qin | Jenny Gehlen | Migara Jayasinghe | Emma Darbinian | Pascale Wehr | Jamie Sugrue |
| Linguistics | Elaine Wai Man Mok | Oisín Nolan | Chau Yi Cheung | Xin Qi | Jessica Ramos-Sanchez | Alexandra Brito |
| Literature | Dylan Chng | Dylan Chng | Liam Whelan | Marta Meazza | Patrick Lillie | Noah Fields |
| Mathematics & Physics | Vincent Sietses | Hongjia Chen | Xi Jie Yeo | Wen Yu Kon | Alexander Zagajewski | Jeremy Lim Zhen Jie |
| Medical Sciences | Leighton Schreyer | Delia-Denisa Dunca | Hailey Dall-Proud | Tara Diviney | Tiffany Ni | Clara Nwe Nwe Linn Oo |
| Music, Film & Theatre | Allison Kinahan | Sher Yao | Adam Weitzer | Jay Millard | Rosalind Moran | |
| Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Healthcare | Seow Ting Low | Hilary Y.M. Pang | Emily Dingley | Susan Williams | Emily Morrison | Amy Lewis |
| Philosophy | Franciszek Bryk | Young-il Kim | Harriet Yates | Woojin Lim | James Monaghan | Tadgh Healy |
| Politics & International Relations | Shenali Wijesinghe | Ng Yi Ming | Jasper Friedrich | Nonyeleze Irukwu | Laura Trad | |
| Psychology | Alexis Wong | Stephanie Yu | Catherine Li | Win Ee Chun | Natalya Jia Yu Wickramisuriya | Jordan Tilda Skrynka |
| Social Sciences: Anthropology & Cultural Studies | Alexander Avila | Beth Hayes | Nathaniel Dylan Lim | Yume Tamiya | Istifaa Ahmed | Alex Longson |
| Social Sciences: Sociology & Social Policy | Lynda Li | Arizona Haddon | Maya Bian | Madelaine Coelho | Isobel Howlett | Sarah McKenna |
| Visual Arts | Dana Leslie | Afnan Albladi | Benjamin Crocker | Ying Li Toh | Yi Xian Issa Sng | Vivienne Molloy |