Each year since 1996 the department has awarded the Calvin Ring Prize to the best undergraduate medical student in Ophthalmology. The annual award was established to encourage interest and awareness of ophthalmology among medical students. Dr Calvin Ring, who died in 1997, taught Auckland ophthalmology undergraduates and postgraduates for thirty years from 1949-1979.
2017 Lize Angelo
2016 Charlotte Jordan
2015 Victoria Utley
2014 Renne Qin
2013 Reid Alexander Ferguson
2012 Michael Plunkett
2011 Eugene Michael
2010 Kate Duggan
2009 Pranali Desai
2008 Riyaz Bhikoo and Timothy Cutfield
2007 Divya Perumel
2006 Kim Williams
2005 Yun Shan Phua
2004 William Cunningham
2003 Shenton Chew
2002 Timothy Fountaine
2001 Alex McHaffie
2000 Katherine Southwell
1999 Stuart Carroll
1998 Sarah Mawson and Kathleen Reid
1997 Sarah Knight-Willis
1996 Alexandra Wallace
