2007 Winners

The Airbus Award for the Best Aeronautical Engineering Student
Judged by the Royal Aeronautical Society

Edward Spalton from the University of Sheffield for Effect of Turbine Manufacture Quality on Aerodynamic Performance


The AstraZeneca Award for the Best Biology or Biotechnology Student
Judged by the Institute of Biology

Catherine Pink from the University of Bath for Gender and the Origin of New Mutations


The AWE Award for the Best Chemical Engineering Student
Judged by the Institution of Chemical Engineers

Jennifer Wilson from the University of Edinburgh for Crossing the Barriers: Towards Computer Assisted Design of Peptide Vectors for Targeted Drug Delivery


The World Leadership Forum Award for the Best Chemistry Student
Judged by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Franziska Bell from the University of York for A Rational Design of Novel Photosensitisers for Cancer Therapy Using Computational Chemistry Methods


The Balfour Beatty Award for the Best Civil Engineering Student
Judged by the Institution of Civil Engineers

Ross McAdam from the University of Oxford for The Design, Build and Test of a Horizontal Axis Marine Turbine


The Microsoft Research Award for the Best Computational Science Student
Judged by the British Computer Society

Richard Hayden from Imperial College London for Fluid-Flow Solutions to the State Space Explosion Problem


The e2v Technologies Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student
Judged by the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Stephen Motley from Imperial College London for A Portable Endoscopy Training Simulator



The Cadbury Schweppes Award for the Best Food, Nutrition & Health Student
Judged by the Institute of Food Research

Helen Davies from the University of Nottingham for Assessing Microflora Diversity of a Raw Ewes' Milk Cheese Throughout Production



The IET Award for the Best Information Technology Student
Judged by the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Mark Read from the University of York for Explicable Boolean Functions



The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust Award for the Best Maritime Technology Student
Judged by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects

Ewan Porteous from Loughborough University for Wave-Like Propulsion of Small Marine Craft


The Morgan Crucible Award for the Best Materials Student
Judged by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

Thomas Connolly from the University of Surrey for Field Emission Characterisation of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites


The Laing O'Rourke Award for the Best Mathematics Student
Judged by the Institute of Mathematics & its Applications and The London Mathematical Society

Claire Fairbairn from Durham University for Class Field Theory for Local Fields of Positive Characteristic


The Bentley Motors Award for the Best Mechanical Engineering Student
Judged by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Christopher Lamming from the University of Bath for Analysis and Computation of Regularly-Spaced Localised Buckles in Pipelines


The GlaxoSmithKline Award for the Best Pharmacology Student
Judged by the British Pharmacological Society

Craig Benson of the University of Liverpool for Do Genetic Variants of the Programmed Death Receptor 1 (PD-1) Influence Treatment Response to Antiretroviral Drugs?


The National Physical Laboratory Award for the Best Physics Student
Judged by the Institute of Physics

Paul Skrzypczyk of the University of Sussex for One-Dimensional Coulomb Scattering


The GKN Award for the 2007 Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year

Craig Benson
University of Liverpool


The SAGE Award for the 2007 Lecturer of the Year

Dr Andrew Owen
University of Liverpool