"This was quite a surprise as we put up a master's thesis from a brand new primate lab with very little funding, and successfully competed with 11 PhD finalists from the best primatology programs in the world," McPhee said.
On Friday morning, a few hundred fans and journalists braved the freezing cold to attend a draw party at Sporting Park, Kansas City, site of Saturday's MLS Cup final, for a watch party also attended by several US national team members, including Clint Dempsey and Omar Gonzalez, as well as internationals from the competing MLS Cup finalists Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake.
"To be nominated with the other finalists is one of the proudest moments of my life," said Conolan.
The battle between last year's two beaten preliminary finalists on Saturday night lived up to its billing.
We chose 36 finalists, from Tallinn to Calgary to Bhubaneswar, whose favourite city ideas range from baths floating in the river, to a green zone around the city, to a network of connected cultural rooftops.
By the time the Channel 4 film is broadcast MPs may have picked the two shortlist finalists.
It was positive ratings from finalists that helped to drive Coventry University's rise up the rankings, according to the compiler of the tables Matt Hiely-Rayner: "It is particularly in the questions that relate to assessment and feedback that Coventry does well.
The university, boosted by happy finalists, has moved to 15th in the table from 112th last year.
'And the finalists are... George Osborne, Theresa May, William Hague, Nicky Morgan and Sajid Javid".
They won Olympic gold in 1912 and were beaten finalists at the 1938 World Cup.
As someone who once threw the worst shot in his year (2.21m) all the shot put finalists have my respect.
