Champion eventer and Sussex student Emily Llewellyn has been named Sussex Young Sports Personality for the second year running. The Business and Management Studies student - who receives a sports bursary from Sussex - was presented with the award at a ceremony at the Hilton Brighton Metropole hotel on 13 November. Emily was one of five youngsters in the running for the prestigious title, which she also won in 2008. The 20-year-old has won several national events in 2009, and helped the youth GB team to retain the gold medal at this year’s European Championships.
The Society for General Microbiology has awarded a £150 prize to a final-year Molecular Genetics student for an outstanding piece of coursework. Rebecca Whyte’s second-year coursework involved writing up and analysing data obtained from both laboratory experiments and bioinformatics analyses. The latter work interested Rebecca so much that she is now doing her final-year project in this field. The prize includes a year's membership of the society.