University and Departmental Prizes: September-October 2014

Three St John's College graduates have been awarded prizes during September and October by the University or other academic institutions thanks to their excellent work and achievements: Lira Puebla, Christoph Schmidhuber, and Patrick Flagmeier.

Lira Puebla, Biochemistry graduate, received the STARLAB Poster Prize, a competition held by the Department of Biochemistry for second year PhD students.

Christoph Schmidhuber, Archaeology graduate, was awarded the Department of Archaeology Merit Prize, as a third year undergraduate.

Patrick Flagmeier, Chemistry graduate, received the German National Merit Foundation Scholarship. This is the second scholarship that he has been awarded this year, the first being the Boehringer Ingelheim Fund PhD fellowship to carry out research into the causes of Parkinson's Disease – read more about this here.