Applications open for scholarship in engineer’s memory at UCC

The team behind a special University College Cork scholarship set up in honour of an Irish energy engineer who died in a US yachting accident have encouraged people to apply for this year’s award.

The first recipient of the Dr Elmer Morrissey Scholarship, Kevin Leahy, a UCC PhD student, said he used it to spend a year studying at the University of California, Berkeley.

“The prestige of the scholarship greatly helped me in my application to the lab I hoped to work at, and the funding provided me with much needed help for the set up expenses of moving to the United States,” said Mr Leahy.