CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF QUEEN’S GRADUATE AND STUDENT AWARDS
11 March 2019
Past winners of the First Trust Bank Queen’s Graduate and Student of the Year Awards gathered for a special celebratory event at Queen’s University on Wednesday 6 March, to mark 20 years since their launch.
Guests joined representatives of First Trust Bank, who have sponsored the awards since they were introduced, staff from the University and the Development and Alumni Relations Office who run the initiative, and members of the Queen's Graduates' Association (QGA), in whose name the awards are presented each year.
Former winners of the prestigious First Trust Bank Graduate of the Year Award present on the night included Johann Muldoon MBE, who was Best Woman Architect in Europe winner in 2017 and Jonny Bramley, BAFTA award-winning BBC Sport Executive producer.
Also present were The Priests, who jointly won the Graduate Award in 2009, following their success as international recording artists.
Fifteen former winners of the First Trust Bank Queen’s Student of the Year Award were also present, including those acknowledged for their contributions to aid projects overseas and to student life, for undertaking volunteering and for personal achievement, often against the highest of odds.
Speaking at the event, Norma Sinte, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, said: "These Awards were launched by the Queen’s Graduates’ Association in 1999 with the generous support of First Trust Bank.
"The special event this week celebrates all our past graduate and student award winners; the depth and breadth of their successes is a lasting inspiration to future generations of students at the University.”
The evening included the presentation of souvenir plaques to prior winners, a number of video presentations (including from Big Cat expert Jonathan Scott, Graduate of the Year in 2008) and the formal opening of an exhibition in the Sir Peter Froggatt Building depicting all the First Trust Bank Queen’s Graduate and Student of the Year Award winners of the last 20 years. A selection of photographs taken on the night can be found below.
Nominations for the 2019 First Trust Bank Queen’s Graduate and Student of the Year Awards are now open and can be made here.
Visit Queen's Graduates' Association for further information on the QGA or contact Queen’s Alumni Officer, Natasha Sharma, Development and Alumni Relations Office; tel: +44 (0)28 9097 3135.
Media enquiries to Gerry Power, Communications Officer, Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO), tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5321. Award enquiries to Natasha Sharma, Alumni Relations Officer, DARO, tel: +44 (0)28 9097 3135.
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