Alumni awards announced

NUIG has announced the winners of the 2010 Alumni Awards.

The Alumni Awards recognise individual achievements among the University’s more than 70,000 graduates worldwide.

The awards will be presented at the tenth annual Alumni Awards Gala Banquet on Saturday, 6 March, 2010 in the newly opened Bailey Allen Wing on campus.

The winners are:

AIB Award for Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies

Gerard Donovan, novelist

Bank of Ireland Award for Business, Public Policy and Law

Margaret Sweeney, CEO Postbank

Bank of Ireland Award for Engineering and Informatics

Professor Brian Moran

Division Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Duais Hewlett-Packard don Ghaeilge

Pádraig Ó hAoláin , Príomhfheidhmeannach, Údarás na Gaeltachta

Medtronic Award for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Professor Rose Anne Kenny

Head of Department of Clinical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine

Seavite Award for Science

Dr J. Paul Duffy

Vice President of Manufacturing for Ireland and Singapore and Site Leader for Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals