The Undergraduate Awards (UA) has announced the winners of the 2016 programme, including the Global Winner and Highly Commended Entrants from the University of Warwick.
 
Cited as the ultimate champion of high-potential undergraduates, and often referred to as a “junior Nobel Prize”, The Undergraduate Awards is the world’s largest international academic awards programme, recognising excellent research and original work across the sciences, humanities, business and creative arts.
 
The Undergraduate Awards received a record number of submission in the 2016 programme, totalling a massive 5,514 papers from undergraduates in 244 institutions and 121 nationalities. The Global Winner is the highest performing paper within it’s category and Highly Commended Entrants are those who were ranked in the top 10% of submissions.
 
Congratulations to Emilia Antiglio who is the Global Winner 2016 of the History category with her paper, ‘The Diffusion of 'Porcelaine des Indes' in Eighteenth-Century France: from Lorient to Paris and beyond, 1720-1775’. Emilia was a Politics and International Studies student at Warwick University from 2011 to 2015, who chose to study the History Department special subject "Treasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans: China, India and the West 1601-1833" in her final year, and her essay was on the French East India Company and the Porcelain trade, and drew on primary research in the archives of Lorient to build a database of 1,000 records of specific orders and goods received off ships landing in Lorient during the eighteenth century.
 
The Highly Commended Entrants from Warwick are:

• Emilia Antiglio - Politics & International Relations category (for her second paper)
• Michael Yip - Politics & International Relations category (for two papers)
• Liam Simmonds - Politics & International Relations category
• Oyinkansola Fafowora - Politics & International Relations category

Speaking about this year’s Winners and Highly Commended Entrants, CEO of The Undergraduate Awards Louise Hodgson said “This is a huge achievement for the University of Warwick and its students. UA received the highest number of submissions to date with only the best papers making it through the judging process - the competition was extremely tough and the Judges were astounded at the high quality of undergraduate research in the programme this year. Congratulations to this year’s successful entrants”.
 
Winners and Highly Commended Entrants are now invited to meet their fellow awardees at the annual UA Global Summit, taking place in Dublin, Ireland on November 8th-11th. The attendees will be addressed by the likes of NASA Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, Shiza Shahid of the Malala Fund, MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abrahams, among many more speakers and facilitators.
 
About The Undergraduate Awards

The Undergraduate Awards is the world's largest international academic awards programme, recognising innovation and excellence at undergraduate level. Cited as the ultimate champion for high-potential undergraduates, UA identifies leading creative thinkers through their undergraduate coursework and provides top performing students with the support, network and opportunities they require to raise their profiles and further their career paths.