High achieving University of Limerick business and management students were recently honoured with a KBS / Northern Trust Outstanding Scholar Awards at the Annual Kemmy Business School (KBS) 2013 awards ceremony.

This is the 9th year of the awards run by the KBS and recognises the most outstanding scholars in the School each year. 47 students were presented their award Certificates by Dr Philip O’Regan, Dean of the KBS and Clive Bellows, Ireland MD, Northern Trust at a ceremony which took place at the Kemmy Business School.

The Dean of the Kemmy Business School, Dr Philip O’Regan said at the event "this awards ceremony recognises truly outstanding student achievements across 29 different Certificate, Diploma, Degree, Graduate Diploma and Masters’ programmes offered by the School."

Speaking from the event Clive Bellows, Ireland MD, Northern Trust said ‘these outstanding students represent the business leaders of the future in Ireland. We want to recognise their hard work, foster their talent, and encourage them to achieve their potential.”

The Louise Newman Memorial Prize was also presented at the ceremony by Barry Sullivan, President of the Insurance Institute of Ireland and this year’s recipient is Fiona Brosnan from Knocknagoshel, Co Kerry. This is a prestigious accolade given to the top University of Limerick insurance graduate each year. This prize was established in 2002 to mark the untimely passing of an outstanding business academic, Louise Newman and reflects her previous active association with the Insurance Institute of Ireland, who generously sponsored this annual prize. Louise lectured in the Risk Management and Insurance discipline, for the Kemmy Business School, from 1996 to 2001.