Alliance News
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Alliance Partners, UL and NUI Galway launch Joint Medical Academy 29-January-2013
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University of Limerick and NUI Galway to put Spotlight on Cutting Edge Research 03-April-2013
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UL - NUI Galway Alliance Celebrates First Graduates of Joint Masters 03-December-2012
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Transforming Local Government and Local Democracy in Ireland 22-November-2012
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Unprecedented Response to Upskilling Programme for Mathematics Teachers 28-September-2012
News from NUI Galway
Surgeon Calls for Public Awareness Campaign to Stem Dramatic Rise in Head and Neck Cancers
Irish Plant Scientists Conference Hosted by NUI Galway
NUI Galway Provides Job Search Support for Graduates
NUI Galway Hosts International Conference on Comparative Public Law
NUI Galway Host Largest Ever National Geographers Conference
News from University of Limerick
Lero to participate in €2.5m European research programme
A Lero research team at Trinity College Dublin is to participate in an international European Commission funded research programme worth €2.5m. Ireland is one of three countries on the programme which will research how the principles of ecology can be adopted to design more stable software systems. Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, based at the University of Limerick, provides the Irish team which is being led by Professor Siobhan Clarke of the School of Computer…
University of Limerick students win major journalism awards
Four final-year BA Journalism and New Media students at the University of Limerick have been honoured with awards for journalism today (Wednesday, May 15).
Liam Corcoran (21) from Dunmore in Co Galway has won the ‘Vincent Doyle Award for Investigative Journalism’, while 22-year-old Niamh Drohan from Dungarvan, Co Waterford was runner-up. The ‘Vincent Doyle Award for Investigative Journalism’, which is supported by Independent News and Media and the Doyle family,…
UL Medical Students Receive Mid-West Medical Education Liaison Group Research Awards
Five students from the Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS), UL were recently presented the Mid-West Medical Education Liaison Group (MELG) research awards. The awards launched at the 21st Sylvester O’Halloran Meeting and provide a bursary for the successful students to carry out a research project with a Consultant Supervisor at University Hospital Limerick during the summer months.
The award winners were: Danielle Lovett Carter, Kerrie Hennigan, Swiri Konje, Kevin Lally, Adebola…
New mathematical technique will enable much faster prediction of infectious disease spread
Will I get infected or not in a disease epidemic? Should I open a Facebook account or not? Which of the two presidential candidates should I vote for in an American federal election? Under what conditions does my choice or opinion become the popular one? The answer to each of these questions depends not only on the individual in question, but also crucially on their social or physical contacts with other individuals. University of Limerick researcher, Professor James Gleeson recently published…
Minister Sherlock announces second intake of teachers for maths up-skilling course based at UL
The Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock, TD, today officially announced the second intake of Maths teachers for the Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching.
The programme is aimed at improving the skills of “out-of-field” maths teachers at post-primary level, and is provided through a consortium led by the National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching & Learning (NCE-MSTL), based in the University of Limerick (UL).
