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Irish Research Council Enterprise-Based Postgraduate Scholar award
Congratulations to Penny Quinn, a postgraduate member of the Centre for Mental Health and Community Research (CMCHR), Department of Psychology, who was one of the awardees at Maynooth University’s recent awards ceremony for the 2018 recipients of the Irish Research Council Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Scholarships.
Date: Friday, 26 October 2018
Maths Week School Visits 2018
Staff members visit schools to promote Maths during Maths Week 2018.
Date: Thursday, 25 October 2018
Research Week Success for Chemistry Students at Maynooth University
Final year chemistry students Ms Alicia Kevin, Double Honours Chemistry and Biology, and Ms Karolina Wojtczack, Single Honours Chemistry, have shared the Faculty of Science and Engineering Best Poster Prize at the Universities’ Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Date: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
“Good Carbs” to combat antimicrobial resistance: This work has just been published in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, a leading journal of this field.
Collaborative work between the laboratories of Dr Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos (Department of Chemistry) and Prof Kevin Kavanagh (Department of Biology) at Maynooth University has identified synthetic carbohydrate derivatives as potent inhibitors of the adhesion of opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans to buccal epithelial cells (BECs). Chemistry postgraduate student Ms Harlei Martin, first author on the publication, won Best Poster Prize presenting this work at Medicinal Chemistry Ireland Conference.
Date: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
MU International College of Engineering at Fuzhou University in China
Maynooth University today established a new International College of Engineering at one of China’s leading universities that will see 1,200 Chinese students graduate with Maynooth Universities degrees in computer science, electronic engineering and robotics over the next four years.
Date: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Maynooth University launches International College of Engineering at Fuzhou University in China
Chinese students will graduate with degrees in computer science, engineering and robotics from Maynooth University in landmark collaboration.
Date: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Ireland, No country for women?
Professor Linda Connolly's inaugural professorial lecture 2018
Date: Friday, 19 October 2018
Maths Week Ireland Award
Congratulations to Prof. Anthony O’Farrell and Dr Fiacre Ó Cairbre, MU Maths & Stats Dept. who were honoured as this year’s recipients of the Maths Week Ireland Award for their contribution to raising public awareness of maths.
Date: Thursday, 18 October 2018
Maynooth University congratulates mathematicians Prof Anthony O’Farrell and Dr Fiacre Ó Cairbre on receiving Maths Week Ireland Award
Maynooth University is delighted to announce that Maynooth University mathematicians Prof Anthony O’Farrell and Dr Fiacre Ó Cairbre, have been honoured as this year’s recipients of the Maths Week Ireland Award for their contribution to raising public awareness of maths.
Date: Thursday, 18 October 2018
SPUR Undergraduate Reserch Symposium Awards
Projects in Biology and Chemistry win joint first prize in the 2018 SPUR Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Date: Monday, 15 October 2018