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Geography - Eye on the World is 10 Years Old
The Departmental blog 'Eye on the World' is 10 years old.
Date: Thursday, 28 February 2019
Professors Rigby and Dorling find life expectancy gains are slowing.
Older Irish women are dying at a higher rate since the recession than anticipated under long-term life expectancy rates.
Date: Monday, 25 February 2019
Dr Alistair Fraser appointed Europe Editor for Human Geography
Dr Alistair Fraser appointed Europe Editor for Human Geography
Date: Monday, 25 February 2019
Heads of Geography at 3rd Level Institutions appeal against the removal of Geography
Heads of Geography at Third Level Institurations appeal against the removal of Geography as a core subject at Junior Certificate level. See the coverage in the Irish Times and Irish Independent.
Date: Monday, 25 February 2019
New PhD theses added to the cabinet.
We love when we get to add the new theses to the cabinet in the Kildare Room
Date: Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Maynooth University oceanographer Dr Gerard McCarthy leads €2 million climate change project funded by Marine Institute
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Minister Creed T.D. has welcomed the announcement of €2 million in funding from the Marine Institute and the European Regional Development Fund for a major project on Atlantic climate change led by Dr Gerard McCarthy of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography at Maynooth University.
Date: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Teagasc team win the “Farming by Satellite” competition
Azucena Jiménez-Castañeda is a second year PhD student at ICARUS, Maynooth University Department of Geography and part of Teagasc Walsh Fellowship Program. She is a member of Teagasc team composed of Richa Marwaha (Second year PhD) and Gabriela Mihaela Afrasinei (Postdoc), led by Dr Stuart Green, research officer at Teagasc, Rural Economy & Development Programme, Ashtown, Dublin. The Teagasc team have won 1st Prize in the “Farming by Satellite” competition, which was held in Marseille (France) on December 5th, 2018.
Date: Wednesday, 05 December 2018
Maynooth University Prof Kath Browne awarded prestigious ERC grant
Maynooth University is delighted to congratulate Professor Kath Browne on her European Research Council (ERC) funding award of almost €2 million for her project on sexual and gender rights and equalities.
Date: Tuesday, 04 December 2018
International climatologists and second-level students discuss how to tackle global warming at ICARUS event
A visit to Dublin by international climate change experts this week proved educational for Irish transition year students who participated in a special event organised by Maynooth University climatologist Prof Peter Thorne.
Date: Thursday, 22 November 2018
Maynooth University report on Gaeltacht areas launched at Oireachtas Na Samhna Festival in Killarney
Seoladh tuarascáil nua leis an Ionad Breathnaithe um Thaighde Uile-Éireann (AIRO) de chuid Ollscoil Mhá Nuad inniu ag an Seanadóir Pádraig Ó Céidigh. Is iad príomhchuspóirí na tuarascála ná tacaíocht a thabhairt chun ceantair Ghaeltachta a fhorbairt agus saolta na ndaoine ina gcónaí sna ceantair seo a fheabhsú.
Date: Friday, 02 November 2018