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CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to 3rd year MSci Marine Biology and Zoology student Aine Guy for being awarded the Bangor University peer guide of the year!
Bangor University is well known for the warm welcome it extends to its students. A really important part of this are the Peer Guides who are on hand to help our new students settle in. Aine was nominated by the School for this prize: “Aine is an exceptional Peer Guide, who leads by example. She has proven indispensable in helping organise Welcome Week, and running the Open Days. She compiled the most amazing treasure hunt for pirate night, to the extent that the clues even rhymed! She always had time to assist both students and staff involved in welcome week, despite having lots of other commitments, she put peer guiding high up in her priorities and embraced the role. Aine is very deserving of this award, and it would really help recognise the excellent contributions she has made to our School and to the experience of our new students and our other Peer Guides.”
Jyodee Sannassy Pilly, a PhD student in SOS, who has been successful in winning one of two Bertarelli Foundation funded scholarships.
The award will enable Jyodee to attend the “Our Ocean 2022” conference in Palau this year. You can read more about Jyodee’s work in the autumn 2020 edition of “The Bridge”.
Bella Ormerod (2021, BSc Physical Geography and Oceanography) who has scooped up the 2021 BSRG Undergraduate Award in Sedimentology.
This prize is awarded to the best final-year undergraduate sedimentological project in the UK and Ireland. It celebrates undergraduate skills and achievement in sedimentology and was announced at this year’s AGM of the British Sedimentological Research Group (affiliated with the Geological Society) in Hull. Bella wrote an excellent dissertation entitled “Do infragravity waves on rock shore platforms perform geomorphic work?”, supervised by Martin Austin.
Professor Antonio Hoguane (BSc Maths & Physical Oceanography, PhD Physical Oceanography) on being awarded a Mozambique Medal of Academic Merit, through the Presidential Decree, on the 3rd of February 2022, the day of Mozambican Heroes. You can read more about Antonio’s journey in the summer 2021 edition of “The Bridge”.
Dr Sarah Zylinski, Marine Biology lecturer, on being made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Peter Evans on being made an honorary Professor in SOS.
