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ALUMNI AWARDS & GALA bANQUET 2011

Alumni Awards & Gala Banquet 2011

NUI Galway has announced the winners of the 2011 Alumni Awards to be presented at the eleventh annual Alumni Awards Gala Banquet on Saturday, 5 March, 2011 in the Bailey Allen Hall on campus.

The Alumni Awards recognise individual excellence and achievements among the University’s more than 80,000 graduates worldwide. The awards programme boasts an impressive roll call of 64 outstanding graduates who have gone on to honour their alma mater, including, for example, Michael D. Higgins, Ciarán FitzGerald, Sean O’Rourke, Professor Frank Gannon, Dr Luke Clancy and Gráinne Seoige.

The winners of the alumni awards to be presented at Gala 2011 are listed below:

	Bank of Ireland Award for Business, Public Policy and Law Gabriel D’Arcy BSc 1981 CEO, Bord na Móna
	Bank of Ireland Alumni Award for Engineering and Informatics Michael Conroy BE 1984 MD, Cisco (Galway)
	Seavite Alumni Award for Science Dr Gerald Farrell BSc 1981, HDip Ed 1982 Managing Director of Eli Lilly (ROI) & former President of Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA)
	AIB Award for Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies John Walshe BA 1968 Education Editor, Irish Independent
	Medtronic Award for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Dr Brian Griffin MB, BCh, BAO 1979 Cleveland Clinic USA - Director, Cardiovascular Disease Training Program & The John and Rosemary Brown Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine; US Associate Editor, Heart
	Aer Arann Alumni Award for Sports Achievement and Leadership Colm Murray BA 1972 RTÉ Sports Presenter

To purchase tickets or tables online, please click here

Alternatively, contact Emma Goode at 091 492721 or email emma.goode

nuigalway.ie

Pricing: Event Ticket €100, Table of 10 €1000.
Event Details: Cocktail Reception 7.00pm, Dinner and Entertainment 7.30pm. Dress: Black-tie.

Alumni Awards Programme

If you know a graduate deserving of an Alumni Award please contact the Alumni Office on 091 495411 or fill in this nomination form and post it to us at: Alumni Office, The Gate Lodge, NUI Galway, Galway. (For Alumni Awards 2012).

Graduates previously honoured with Alumni Awards are listed below:

Bank of Ireland Award for Engineering, IT and Mathematics

2009 - Professor Brian Moran BE 1980, MEngSc.1982
Acting Provost and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
2008 - Finian O’Sullivan BSc 1976
Founder and Former CEO, Burren Energy
2007 - John Ryan Physics and Mathematics 1962-1965
Chairman of the Board, Macrovision Corporation
2006 - Paddy & TomCoffey BE 1967/1969
Directors of the Coffey Group
2005 - Mr Noel Fogarty BE 1984, HDip in Eng 1989
Managing Director, Boston Scientific Galway.
2004 - Ms Anne Butler BE 1976
Incoming President of the IEI and Engineering Consultant
2003 - Mr Tom Costello BE 1979
Managing Director, John Sisk & Son Ltd.
2002 - John McGowan, BE 1970
Vice President Technology and Manufacturing Group - Intel
2001 - Áine Brazil, BE 1977
Managing Principal, Thorton-Tomasetti Engineers
2000 - Eamon Corcoran, BE 1971
Chairman, P.J. Walls (Civil) Ltd

Bank of Ireland Award for Business and Commerce

2009 - Margaret Sweeney BComm 1981
Chief Executive, Postbank Ireland Ltd
2008 - Mike Higgins BComm 1982
Managing Director, CIBC Real Estate Finance Group
2007 - Brian Joyce BA 1962, BComm 1962, HDipEd 1963
Chairman, Clancourt Holdings; Director, Kingspan
2006 - Irial Finan BComm 1977
Executive Vice President of The Coca-Cola Company and President of Bottling Investments
2005 - Ms Maria Mahon BComm 1990
Group Chief Executive of Keyland Ltd
2004 - Mr Declan Kelly BA 1989
President and CEO of Financial Dynamics - US
2003 - Dr Ronan Lambe BSc, MSc, PhD 1959,1963,1976
Director, ICON Clinical Research
2002 - Pádraig Ó Céidigh, BComm 1978
Owner, Managing Director - Aer Arann Express
2001 - Hugh Friel, BComm 1966, HDip Ed 1967
Managing Director, Kerry Group
2000 - Michael Maloney, BA 1985
Gateway Ireland

Medtronic Award for Health Care and Medical Science

2009 - Professor Rose Anne Kenny MB, BCh, BAO 1977, MD 1986
Head of Department of Clinical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Physician in Medicine at St James’ Hospital
2008 - Professor Michael O’Brien MB, BCh, BAO 1971, BSc 1973
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Chief, Department of Anatomic Pathology, Boston Medical Center
2007 - Dr Frank Giles MB,BCh,BAO 1982, MD 2003
Chief of the Division of Haematology and Medical Oncology at the San Antonio Cancer Institute (SACI), Vice President and Director of Cancer Therapy & Research Center's Institute for Drug Development.
2006 - Professor Pat Gullane MB, BCh, BAO 1970
Professor Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto
2005 - Professor Donald McDonnell BSc 1983
Glaxo-Wellcome Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology, Professor of Medicine, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Centre
2004 - Professor Orla Conneely BSc 1977, MSc 1981, PhD 1983
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
2003 - Professor Fred Given MB,BCh,BAO, MCh 1967, 1981
Department of Surgery, UCHG
2002 - Professor Maurice Manning, BSc 1957
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Medical College of Ohio
2001 - Dr Luke Clancy, BSc 1963, MB, BCh, BAO 1966
Consultant, St James Hospital, Dublin
2000 - Dr Jerry Cowley, MB, BCh, BAO 1976
General Practitioner, Mulranny, County Mayo

AIB Award for Literature Communication and the Arts

2009 - Gerard Donovan BA 1983, MA 1988
Novelist
2008 - Dr Brendan O’Connor BSc 1982, PhD 1985
Founder, Cois Cladaigh Choir
2007 - Julian Gough BA 1988
Novelist and Rockstar
2006 - Seán O'Rourke BA 1977
Broadcaster and Presenter with RTÉ
2005 - Dr Pat Wallace BA 1969
Director of the National Museum of Ireland
2004 - Mr John Coll BSc 1979
Sculptor
2003 - Mr Michael D Higgins, TD BA, BComm 1965, 1966
Former Minister for Arts Culture and the Gaeltacht
2002 - Sean McGinley, BA 1976
Actor
2001 - Eddie Lenihan, BA 1973, HDipEd 1975, MA 1978
Seanchaí/Author

NUI Galway Award for Law, Public Service and Government

2008 - Dr John Hegarty, PhD 1976
Provost, Trinity College Dublin
2007 - Seamus Brennan BComm 1968, BA 1969
Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism
2006 - Brian O'Donnell BA 1974, LLB 1976
Founding Partner of Brian O'Donnell & Partners, Solicitors
2005 - Her Honour Judge Mary Faherty BA 1982, LLB 1984
Circuit Court Judge
2004 - Cardinal Wilfrid Napier BA 1964
2003 - Dr Eamonn Hall LLB 1974
Chief Legal Counsel, Eircom plc
2002 - HE Seán O’hUiginn, BA 1966
Ambassador - Embassy of Ireland, Berlin

Duais Hewlett-Packard don Ghaeilge

2009 - Pádraig Ó hAoláin LLB 1985
Príomhfheidhmeannach, Údarás na Gaeltachta
2008 - Pádraig Ó Ceithearnaigh HDip in Education 1976
Leas-Ardstiúthóir Chomhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge
2007 - Grainne Seoige BA 1995, HDip Applied Communications 1996
Craoltóir
2006 - Mairéad Ní Nuadháin BA 1974
Commissioning Editor Education Irish Language, Multiculture and Education with RTÉ
2005 - Máire Mhic Uidhir BA 1969, HDip in Education 1970
Iar-Oifigeach Eolais, OÉ Gaillimh
2004 - An t-Uasal Daithí MaCarthaigh BA 1989, MA 1995, LLB 1996
Abhcóide i Leabharlann an Dlí
2003 - Pádraig Feirtéar, Uasal BSc, ATO, MSc 1974, 1975, 1977
Príomhoide Mheánscoil na mBráithre, An Daingean, Co. Chiarraí

Seavite Award for Natural Science

2009 - Dr J. Paul Duffy BSc 1986, PhD 1992
Vice President Operations, Primary Care/Oncology Operating Unit for Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals
2008 - Dr Catherine Caulfield BSc 1976, HDip in Ed 1977, PhD 2008
Chief Executive - Charles River Laboratories Preclinical Services Irl.
2007 - Dr Peter Heffernan BSc 1981, PhD 1986
CEO, Marine Institute
2006 - Dr Reg Shaw BSc 1971, PhD 1974
Managing Director of the Wyeth BioPharma Campus in Dublin
2005 - Professor Frank Gannon BSc 1970
Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
2004 - Professor Frank Imbusch BSc 1956, MSc 1958
Senior Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy and former Professor of Experimental Physics, NUI Galway
2003 - Professor Emer Colleran BSc, PhD 1967, 1971
Professor Microbiology, Director ECI - NUI Galway

Aer Arann Award for Sports Achievement and Leadership

2008 - Ciarán FitzGerald BComm 1973
International Rugby Captain and Triple Crown Winner
2007 - Joe McDonagh BA 1974, HDip in Ed 1978
All-Ireland hurling medal winner, former president of the GAA

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