academic prizes

[Guest]

does anyone know if they have any academic prizes yet? when do people know if they do have one? does it show on the record card? or does the department write?

[physicist]

Quoting from 21:44, 10th Jun 2005
does anyone know if they have any academic prizes yet? when do people know if they do have one? does it show on the record card? or does the department write?

The department (may) write to tell you, but that would have happened last week. During the summer, the Finance department will send a cheque if you you have any (money-based) prizes. Sometimes you do not know until the record card is updated or you are requested to collect your medal(s) months later.

[Eliot Wilson]

When I won the Lydia Elizabeth Malcolm Prize for Scottish history six or seven years ago, the department never actually told me. I just received a mysterious cheque from the cash office (and, of course, banked it as soon as possible).

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[Iain]

I had a Geology prize last year, I got a letter out about two weeks after the results came out. But then, it took 8 months for the medal to appear. Funny that. EDIT: Just won another couple, spot on!!

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[physicist]

Quoting Eliot Wilson from 15:28, 13th Jun 2005
When I won the Lydia Elizabeth Malcolm Prize for Scottish history six or seven years ago, the department never actually told me. I just received a mysterious cheque from the cash office (and, of course, banked it as soon as possible).

Physics was just the same when I received the prize with the cheque just appearing - nobody had told me until then. The medal was available about May Day the following year. Oddly, medals gained in Senior Honours manage to appear at graduation!

[Melkor]

There used to be a webpage on the university website which had the list of all the different prizes, classified by department. Does this page still exist? I can seem to find it, thanks to the crappy search engine on the Uni website...

[queen of scots]

Quoting Eliot Wilson from 15:28, 13th Jun 2005
When I won the Lydia Elizabeth Malcolm Prize for Scottish history six or seven years ago, the department never actually told me. I just received a mysterious cheque from the cash office (and, of course, banked it as soon as possible).

Snap - the same thing happened to me when I was an undergrad in Scottish History, although it was a different prize. They don't seem to be the most efficient of departments! I actually rang them up to check if the prize really was for me or not before paying it in!

And in answer to the original poster, yes, it does show on your record card.

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[purplesalamander]

I won 3 medals in my first year, and never heard a thing about going to collect them-I\'m about to graduate! You\'d think they\'d have sorted them out after 4 years.

[KateBush]

You won't necessarily know yet.

I didn't get a medal but I did get £150 for the Lorimer Prize last summer.

I wasn't told til 3 days before my ceremony would have been (I didn't graduate last year as I missed the semester, you know the story!)



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[kat29]

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/publication ... ndex.shtml

[Guest]

Quoting kat29 from 13:11, 15th Jun 2005
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/publication ... ndex.shtml

From that site:

Sloan Prize (£1200)-For the best essay, short story, play or poetry (maximum of five poems), submitted in the Lowland Scots vernacular. Submissions must be in the hands of the Clerk of Senate by 1st January.

$$$ Cha-ching!

Someone must be cleaning up on this one...

[KateBush]

I tried for that one, but sadly failed miserably to win anything

Yes, I'm desperate for dosh

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[zuza]

Yep they're crazy - i just noticed that a medal for a module sat in 1st semester has just appeared on my record card. Random - but a nice surprise!

[Guest]

Quoting kat29 from 13:11, 15th Jun 2005
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/publication ... ndex.shtml

Anyone know when the big university prizes are announced? Just curious to know what kind of average the winners usually have... (Of course I know that I don't really stand a chance with a 17.3 average, but just curious)

[quote]Miller Prizes (Arts £800, Science £750)-(a) Awarded to the most distinguished student in the Faculty of Arts who has completed his or her entire course and taken his or her degree during the year. (b) Awarded to the most distinguished student in the Faculty of Science who has completed his or her entire course and taken his or her degree during the year.[\quote]

[chills]

I know the girl who's won the miller prize for science this year. She had outstanding marks in all her modules and had (as far as I’ve heard) only one grade that was not a 1st. She regularly got 18's over all, and 20 in course work.

[purplesalamander]

Just out of interest- what degree was she doing?

[purplesalamander]

Just out of interest- what degree was she doing?

[G.]

Geoscience, and thats one of the most time consuming subjects in the uni, so fair play to her.

[Dave the Explosive Newt]

Just out of interest, a quick look on my student record card this morning revealed a medal (woo). Not sure whether this just applies to medical sciences or to all subjects.

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[KateBush]

congrats beloved son! which one is it?- different form the one you were telling me about before? well done anyhoo! x x

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