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The Global Undergraduate Awards (often referred to as the Junior Nobel Prize [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] ) is an academic awards program recognising undergraduate work. Prizes are awarded to 25 disciplines by a non-profit organisation under the patronage of the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins. [7]
The Global Undergraduate Awards (UA) was founded in 2008 in Dublin as The Undergraduate Awards. [8] The programme was originally open to students from Ireland's universities. [8]
In 2012, UA expanded to accept submissions from every Third Level Institution on the Island of Ireland as well as the top twenty universities in Britain, USA and Canada. [9]
In 2016, the UA Programme was split into seven regions: Africa & Middle East, Asia, Europe, Island of Ireland, Latin America, Oceania, US & Canada. [10]
Entrants submit their work to one of 25 categories, which represent a wide range of academic disciplines: Architecture & Design, Art History & Theory, Business, Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Classical Studies & Archaeology, Computer Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics, Education, Engineering, History, Linguistics, Law, Life Sciences, Literature, Mathematics & Physics, Medical Sciences, Music, Film & Theatre, Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Healthcare, Philosophy, Politics & International Relations, Psychology, Anthropology & Cultural Studies, Sociology & Social Policy and Visual Arts. [10]
The submissions are evaluated anonymously by a group of international academics. [8] The top 10% of entries from each region in each category are named Highly Commended. The highest performing Highly Commended entrant from each region is named a Regional Winner of their category, while the best Highly Commended Entrant is named the Global Winner. [10]
Entrants whose submission is selected as the best in their category are named Global Winners. [11] These winners are invited to present their work in Dublin at the Global Undergraduate Awards Summit. Each winner is awarded with a gold medal.
| Category | Global Winner 2022 [12] | Global Winner 2021 [13] | Global Winner 2020 [14] | Global Winner 2019 [15] | Global Winner 2018 [16] | Global Winner 2017 [17] |
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| Architecture & Design | Zareen Tasneem Sharif | Riad Tabbara | Aishwarya Sriram | Prathyush Pradeep | Karen El Asmar | Martha Andrews |
| Art History & Theory | Sahil Tiku | Piper Prolago | Zoe Voice | Claudia Haines | Jun Yan Chua | Eden Gelgoot |
| Business | Katie McGrath | Jill Humby | Shawn Liu | Xi Ning Seet | Brian Heffernan | Robert Sarich |
| Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences | Oliver Hervir | Ali Abdelfadil | Jingfei Ren | Kang Rui Garrick Lim | Li Ling Tan | Phillip Karpati |
| Classical Studies & Archaeology | Maggie Tighe | Emily Kerrison | Edward Foster | Juhi Patel | Amelia Halls | Melanie Hechenberger |
| Computer Science | Guruprerana Shabadi | Chen Sihao | Kayo Yin | Harry She | Cristian Bodnar | Dinh Luan Nguyen |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | Kenna White | Yilin Zhang | Alice Walker | Amy Campbell | Lyndsay Walsh | Bridget Murphy |
| Economics | Victor Sosanya | Beatriz Sasse | Ishita Kumar | Stefan Pricopie | Shamus Lee | Daniel Cueva |
| Education | Matthew Gover | Roxanne Lau | Pearlwe Chau | Laura DeSousa | Sylvia Lee | Farhana Choudhury |
| Engineering | Bailey Thompson, Bruce Gillespie, Adam Kidd & Parth Vachharajani | Lim Si Xian | Febby Krisnadi | Aayush Chadha | Michaela Taylor-Williams | Amber Tan |
| History | Calvin Heng | Hannah Kern-Cheng | Keith Ó Riain | Lauren Goodall | Matthew Barton | |
| Law | Julia Best | Amrita Deshmukh | Genevieve Ding | Andrew Ray | Melany Toombs | Kathy Liu |
| Life Sciences | Alex Qin | Jenny Gehlen | Migara Jayasinghe | Emma Darbinian | Pascale Wehr | Jamie Sugrue |
| Linguistics | Elaine Wai Man Mok | Oisín Nolan | Chau Yi Cheung | Xin Qi | Jessica Ramos-Sanchez | Alexandra Brito |
| Literature | Dylan Chng | Dylan Chng | Liam Whelan | Marta Meazza | Patrick Lillie | Noah Fields |
| Mathematics & Physics | Vincent Sietses | Hongjia Chen | Xi Jie Yeo | Wen Yu Kon | Alexander Zagajewski | Jeremy Lim Zhen Jie |
| Medical Sciences | Leighton Schreyer | Delia-Denisa Dunca | Hailey Dall-Proud | Tara Diviney | Tiffany Ni | Clara Nwe Nwe Linn Oo |
| Music, Film & Theatre | Allison Kinahan | Sher Yao | Adam Weitzer | Jay Millard | Rosalind Moran | |
| Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Healthcare | Seow Ting Low | Hilary Y.M. Pang | Emily Dingley | Susan Williams | Emily Morrison | Amy Lewis |
| Philosophy | Franciszek Bryk | Young-il Kim | Harriet Yates | Woojin Lim | James Monaghan | Tadgh Healy |
| Politics & International Relations | Shenali Wijesinghe | Ng Yi Ming | Jasper Friedrich | Nonyeleze Irukwu | Laura Trad | |
| Psychology | Alexis Wong | Stephanie Yu | Catherine Li | Win Ee Chun | Natalya Jia Yu Wickramisuriya | Jordan Tilda Skrynka |
| Social Sciences: Anthropology & Cultural Studies | Alexander Avila | Beth Hayes | Nathaniel Dylan Lim | Yume Tamiya | Istifaa Ahmed | Alex Longson |
| Social Sciences: Sociology & Social Policy | Lynda Li | Arizona Haddon | Maya Bian | Madelaine Coelho | Isobel Howlett | Sarah McKenna |
| Visual Arts | Dana Leslie | Afnan Albladi | Benjamin Crocker | Ying Li Toh | Yi Xian Issa Sng | Vivienne Molloy |
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