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The Glasgow School of Art awards a number of prizes each year at both undergraduate and postgraduate graduation:

- The Newbery Prize: Named after The Glasgow School of Art's celebrated director Francis ‘Fra’ Newbery, the award is presented each year to the top student graduating from an undergraduate programme at The Glasgow School of Art.

- Undergraduate Chairman's Medal: Chairman's medals are awarded to the top undergraduate student in each of the Schools at The Glasgow School of Art.

- The Foulis Medal: The Foulis Medal is named in honour of Robert Foulis the printer who together with his brother Andrew established the Academy which has been described as ‘the single most influential factor in the development of eighteenth-century Scottish Art’. The medal is awarded to the top student on a taught Masters programme at The Glasgow School of Art.

- Postgraduate Chairman's Medal: Chair's medals are awarded to the top student on a taught Masters programme in each of the Schools at The Glasgow School of Art.

Other Undergraduate prizes include:

Open Prizes:

- Landscape Drawing Prize

- GSA Prize for Sustainability

- Bram Stoker Award

- Dissertation Prize

- Essay Prize

Mackintosh School of Architecture:

- MSA Stage 4 BArch(Hons) Portfolio Prize

- MSA Stage 4 Diploma Portfolio Prize

- MSA Research Project Prize

School of Design – Silversmithing and Jewellery:

- Richard H Arroll Memorial Prize

- Incorporation of Hammermen

- Incorporation of Bonnetmakers

School of Design – Fashion and Textiles:

- Incorporation of Tailors

- Bill Naysmith Innovation Award

- The Begg X Co Degree Show Preparation Bursary

School of Design – Interior Design:

- James Brough Memorial Prize

- Stakis Prize

School of Design – Communication Design:

- The Kerry Aylin Prize for Distinction in Print

Innovation School:

- Innovation Design Prize

- Innovation Design Research Prize

- Innovation Design Collaborative Practice Prize

- Ecological Innovation

School of Fine Art:

- Steven Campbell Hunt Medal

- Critical Theory Prize

School of Fine Art – Painting:

- The James Nicol McBroom Memorial Prize for Fine Art

- Emmy Sachs Prize

- Armour Prize

- Armour Travel Prize

School of Fine Art – Printmaking:

- Glasgow Print Studio

- Euan Stewart Memorial Prize

- Jon McFarland Prize for Printmaking

School of Fine Art – Sculpture:

- Benno Schotz Prize

School of Fine Art – Fine Art Photography:

- The Alice Duncan Prize

School of Fine Art – Environmental Art:

- The David Harding Public Art Project Prize

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Arctic Alba; Adopt a Berg product

These items represent a product through which a consumer would adopt an iceberg, thereby supporting research into effects of melting ice in the Arctic. The certificate of adoption would give details of the berg adopted, and the cardboard berg models would be sent to the adopter over time, shrinking in size to represent the melting of the ice. The product was produced as part of a final year student project addressing issues of climate change and the relationship between Scotland and the North.

Lord, Gemma

Arctic Alba; Aurora Forecast Station

The items represent a forecast station which would enable aurora hunters to determine when the right factors were in place to view the aurora in Scotland. The product was produced as part of a final year student project addressing issues of climate change and the relationship between Scotland and the North.

Lord, Gemma

Arctic Alba; Process Journal

Volume detailing the processes which resulted in a final series of models and publications. These were produced as part of a final year student project, addressing issues of climate change and the relationship between Scotland and the North.

Lord, Gemma

Arctic Alba; Thesis

A thesis exploring links between the North and Scotland, and discussing issues of climate change and its effects on the Arctic pack ice. The thesis relates to a series of models and publications produced as part of a final year student project.

Lord, Gemma

Arctic Alba; Wear Bear product

This wrist band represents a product which would support research into the changing behaviours of polar bears in relation to diminished habitat. The band would link by satellite to a polar bear. It would reflect the temperature of the bear and vibrations would serve to notify the band owner when the bear undertakes certain activities. The band is boxed and comes with an explanatory leaflet.

Lord, Gemma

Hugh Biggar's Haldane medal

Bust of Haldane? (obverse): figure of Minerva (reverse). Awarded to Hugh Biggar. The GSA was known as the Glasgow School of Art and Haldane Academy from 1869-1892. Inscribed obverse: "Glasgow School of Art and Haldane Academy"; On rim: "Hugh Biggar."

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