Undergraduate of the Year Awards

The ESAI are pleased to announce that the ‘ESAI Undergraduate of the Year Award’ is taking place again this year, celebrating excellence in the undergraduate student body in 2023/2024. This award recognizes students who have excelled in the area of environmental research at undergraduate level.

Working in conjunction with the ESAI College Liaisons in each HEI, the ESAI have asked each third level education institute to nominate the best Level 7 (L7) and Level 8 (L8) student undertaking an environmental research final year project. To coincide with graduation, each of the awardees will get a certificate for their contribution to the environmental field in Ireland and free ESAI membership for the year. This award has gone from strength to strength since its introduction 6 years ago, and we at the ESAI look forward to next year’s award in 2024.

Congratulations to ESAI Undergraduates of Year 2022/23

Cormac Harte (Level 8, ATU Donegal), Samuel O'Donnell  (Level 8, ATU Galway), Aoife Hillman-Allen (Level 8, ATU Sligo),  Grainne Mulcahy  (Level 8, MTU Cork), Tara Lawton (Level 7, MTU), Aislinn Hare (Level 8, MTU Kerry) Katie Fallon (Level 8, SETU Waterford), Caitlin Chapman  (Level 7, SETU Carlow), Darren Mc Donald (Level 8, SETU Carlow), Clara Hurley (Level 8, Trinity College Dublin), Aine Purcell, (Level 8, University College Cork),  Olivia Philo (Level 8, University of Galway)

Congratulations to ESAI Undergraduates of Year 2022/23

Lizzy Armah Amakwa (Level 8, ATU Donegal), Adrian Leddy (Level 8, ATU Sligo), Jack O' Brien (Level 8, Dundalk Institute of Technology), Eoin Corbett  (Level 8, MTU Cork), Michael Buckley (Level 7, MTU Cork), Shauna Mullowney (Level 8, SETU Waterford), Philip Brennan  (Level 7, SETU Waterford), Taylor  Vereecken (Level 8, SETU Carlow), Anna Morrison (Level 8, Trinity College Dublin), Lauren Woods (Level 8, TUS Thurles), Isabel Gogarty-Meade, (Level 8, University College Cork), Niamh Gurrin (Level 8, University College Dublin), Rachel Stewart (Level 8, Ulster University), Charlene Watters (Level 8, ATU Galway)

Congratulations to ESAI Undergraduates of Year 2021/22

Eunice Wong (Level 8, MTU Cork), Sean Og Quinn (Level 7, MTU Cork), Emma Stempel (Level 8, ATU Galway), Harry Reynolds (Level 8, ATU Sligo), Helen Burke (Level 8, DCU), Finbar McCann (Level 8, NUI Galway), Thomas Peters (Level 8, TUS Thurles), Erin Driscoll (Level 8, UCC), Grace Donald (Level 8, UCD), Jessy Fong (Level 8, SETU Waterford), Roisin Gowen (Level 8, TCD), Shane O'Neill (Level 8, SETU Carlow), Magdalena Ciuchta (Level 7, SETU Carlow).

Previous Winners

Victoria Decristoforo (Level 8, LIT), Jennifer Burke (DKIT), Aylis Emerit (GMIT), Robert Morrow (IT Sligo), Fay Clohessey (Level 8, MTU), Kate Mulligan (Level 7, MTU), Katy Beckett (TCD), Gavin Fowler (TU Dublin), Niall Murray (UL), Anna Kavanagh (Level 8, WIT), Zak Dunphy (Level 7, WIT), Sean Brennan (Level 8, IT Carlow), Shane O’Neill (Level 7, IT Carlow).

2019-2020 winners

Jessica Alvarado (GMIT), Alison Scott (University of Ulster), Hannah Farrelly (DCU), Thomas Robinson (TCD), Teagan Reinert (NUIG), Samantha O'Neill (Level 8, IT Carlow), Sean Brennan (Level 7, IT Carlow), Deirdre O'Donnell (UL), Karl Hoffman (Level 8, CIT), Maria Gulak (Level 7, CIT), Mairead O'Donnell (LIT), Eva Naughton (UCD), Aoife McMullin (IT Sligo), Faolan Radford McGovern (Level 8, TU Dublin) and Sinead Aspell (Level 7, TU Dublin).

2018-2019 winners

Elaine Salomon (L8, UU), Katie O’Toole (L8, WIT), Chloe Quinn (L7, WIT), Clodagh King (L8, DKIT), Isabel Jorgensen (L8, TCD), Cliodhna Colbert (L8, UL), Darren O’Sullivan (L8, CIT), Denis Kiely (L7, CIT), Peter Lynch (L8, UCD), Niall McHugh (L8, GMIT), Grainne McIvor (L8, DCU), Robert Conlon (L8, IT Carlow), Samantha O’Neill (L7, IT Carlow), Grace English (L8, LIT Thurles), Damian Smyth (L8, TU Dublin), John Sheppard (TU Dublin).

2017-2018 winners

Paul McCaul (L8, Limerick IT), Niamh McDonnell (L7, WIT), Adam James (L8, WIT), Darren Keary (L7, Cork IT), Cian Brickley (L8, Cork IT), Jade Connor (L8, TCD), Leanne Leonard (L8, IT Sligo), Sean Grace (L8, Leterkenny IT), Emilie Ellis (L8, UCD), Amanda Egan (L8, GMIT), Anna Karpinska (IT Carlow), Marlena Tomkalska (L8, Dublin IT).

2016-2017 winners

Anna Karpinska (L7, IT Carlow), Colm Carton (L8, IT Carlow), Colin Meaney (L7, Cork IT), Michael Gilroy (L8, Cork IT), Sean Walpole (DCU), Grace Davitt (DIT), Kim Van Rhijn (DKIT), James Orr (TCD), Natalisa Lipinska (L, AIT), Emer O'Neill (L, AIT), Aaron Hickey (GMIT), Dermot Walsh (IT Sligo), Sanni Hintikka (UCD).