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Taught MSc 2024/25 Award and Conferring

Taught MSc 2024/25 Award and Conferring

Wednesday 3rd December 2025

 Taught MSc Dec Conferring - Class of 24-25

School of Chemistry Taught MSc Class of 2024/2025 with Academic staff

On Wednesday 3rd of December, the Class of 2024/25 from our two Taught MSc programmes, MSc by Negotiated Learning and MSc in Synthetic Chemistry for the Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemicals Industry gathered to celebrate their conferring and to attend a school event and reception.

Mr. Shane Hayes of (opens in a new window)Novartis Ireland came to the School to present the Novartis Dr. Vincent Barry Medal to Arun Madathil, the Taught MSc student who achieved the highest GPA across the two programmes. Congratulations to Arun and thank you to Shane for attending. You can read more about this year’s award here.

Taught MSc Dec Conferring - Shane Hayes Arun Madathil Novartis Medal

Shane Hayes of Novartis Ireland presents Arun Madathil with the Novartis Dr. Vincent Barry Medal.

After the presentation all of the graduands and their guests joined us for a reception to celebrate their achievements.

Conferred with MSc Synthetic Chemistry for the Pharmaceutical & Fine Chemicals Industry:

Amala Benny

Amanpreet Grover

Ann Maria Joy

Arun Madathil

Jibin Mathew

Parth Nisar

Krishnapriya Paloly

Nidhi Prathapachandran Nair

Aneeta Valiyaveedu Antony     

Silvia Vega Valázquez

Sam Burke

Awarded Graduate Diploma Synthetic Chemistry

Mohammadfaizan Shaikh

Conferred with MSc Chemistry by Negotiated Learning:

Sejal Maria Babu

Nathan Finney

Aleesha Jacob

Aleena Kunjumon

Ciana Comer

Congratulations to each of our graduates, we them all the very best in their future careers. 

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