Global Undergraduate Awards 2022
Oliver Hervir and Alex Qin from Australian National 51³Ô¹ÏÍø will receive the award in-person at The Global Undergraduate Awards’ annual Summit in Dublin on 8 November 2022.
Oliver Hervir and Alex Qin from Australian National 51³Ô¹ÏÍø will receive the award in-person at The Global Undergraduate Awards' annual Summit in Dublin on 8 November 2022.
Each year thousands of students from around the world submit their undergraduate research projects to The Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA), the world's leading pan-discipline, undergraduate research awards programme. These submissions are reviewed by more than 600 academics who volunteer as judges and pick just 25 Global Winners, one from each category.
Hervir won the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences category for his work titled "Fabricating and Testing Dual-Carbon Batteries to Investigate their Electrochemical Properties and Performance Characteristics". Qin won the Life Sciences category for his work titled "Molecular mechanisms of Ku70 during colorectal cancer". With that honour, they are both invited to attend the Global Summit on 6-9 November 2022 in Dublin. The highlight of this three-day-long event is the Gala Dinner's awards ceremony on 8 November, where Hervir, Qin, and the other 23 Global Winners will receive the Thomas Clarkson Gray Gold Medal for their work.
GUA Executive Director Dr. Garret Maher says that after successful virtual and hybrid Global Summits since the start of the pandemic, they are eager to re-launch the event in-person this year. "We've noticed a huge sense of fatigue among undergraduates who have been doing their best to study remotely for the past two years, and we think it's really important to bring everyone together to connect and celebrate these outstanding students in-person again."
In addition to the usual schedule of events, which includes keynotes speakers and evening social activities, that renewed connection this year will incorporate new capacity-building workshops and break-out sessions.
"At a time when debate and discourse are frustrated by an uncertain and sometimes distorted cultural dialogue, fostering collaboration among students and academics globally to celebrate the pursuit of knowledge whilst engaging in matters of global importance has never been more crucial," says the long-time Chairman of the Global Undergraduate Awards Jim Barry.
