Department of Chemistry - Teaching

BP Tripos Prizes

BP sponsor a series of prizes awarded across all four years in recognition of outstanding performance in Chemistry Tripos Exams. These prizes are awarded by the Examiners.

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Corporate Associates Summer Projects

Each year, through the generosity of the Corporate Associates scheme (see http://www-cas.ch.cam.ac.uk/), we are able to offer about four studentships to those between Part II and Part III who wish to spend the summer in Cambridge working with a research group in the Department. Details are on the Teaching Website

For 2011 the following have been awarded summer studentships

• Alexander Guttenplan (EM) to work with Dr Lloyd
• John Morgan (DOW) to work with Prof. Frenkel
• Matthew Smith (CC) to work with Dr Wheatley

Tripos and Project Prizes

Many of these prizes are sponsored by companies, as indicated in their titles.

Prizes awarded in 2011

Part III

• Raphael Prize, for distinction in Organic Chemistry: S R Williams (TH)
• Buckingham Prize, for distinction in Theoretical Chemistry: G H Meisl (T)
• BP Prize, for an outstanding performance: A Massey (R)
• Norrish Prize, for distinction in Physical Chemistry: M J Cliffe (CL)

• Corporate Associates Prize for the best Biological project: E C So (JN)
• Johnson Matthey Prize for the best Inorganic project: H J Cowley (M)
• GSK Prize for the best Organic project: jointly to N A Jenkins (JN) and S R Williams (TH)
• Unilever Prize for the best Physical project: jointly to S V Baillie (Q) and J A Dixon (CTH)
• ICI Prize for the best Theoretical project: J N More (G)

Part II

A BP prize in recognition of the most outstanding performance in Part II Chemistry has been awarded to D Scott (T)

A BP prize in recognition of an outstanding performance in Part II Chemistry has been awarded to M J Wells (PET)

Part IB

The GSK prize for the most outstanding performance in Part IB Chemistry A and B has been awarded to Jian Siang Poh (R)

BP prizes in recognition of an outstanding performance in Part IB Chemistry A have been awarded to Mark Rickerby (CC) and Arkesh Patel (CAI)

BP prizes in recognition of an outstanding performance in Part IB Chemistry B have been awarded to Yiyang See (EM) and Mark Southall (JE)

Part IA

BP prizes in recognition of an outstanding performance in Part IA Chemistry have been awarded to Ruth Franklin (T) and Kian Kock (F)

Corporate Associates Prizes for Practical Class Demonstration

The following have been awarded a Corporate Associates Prize for Practical Class Demonstration in recognition of outstanding qualities in the teaching of practical chemistry in 2010/11.

Anna Andreou, Elliot Bayle, Beatrice Collins, Pillippa Cranwell,Jake Goodwin-Tindal, Jo Haywood,
Tanya Hutter, Sam Jones, David Ponting, Tom Scrase, Jonathan Skelton and Francesca Stokes