Public Lectures on Sustainable Consumption
Public lectures at NUI Galway on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 May, will look at our throwaway culture, and ask what a future with everyone living more sustainably might look like. Philosopher Kate Soper,...
View ArticleSun-tracking Solar Panels Project Scoops Avaya Prize
Rob Finnerty, a final year student in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway has been awarded the Avaya Prize for the best final year project in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in...
View ArticleNUI Galway PhD Student Receives Top International Award
Declan Gavigan, a PhD student from NUI Galway’s College of Engineering and Informatics and the Ryan Institute, recently received the Top Young Engineers’ Award. He was awarded the prize for a paper he...
View ArticleNUI Galway Physicist Wins International Award
NUI Galway’s Professor Colin O’Dowd (pictured) has been awarded the Appleton Medal by the Institute of Physics for his ‘distinguished research in environmental and atmospheric physics’. In particular,...
View ArticleNUI Galway to Launch Ryan Institute With Public Symposium
NUI Galway’s Ryan Institute for Environmental, Marine and Energy Research will be officially launched on Tuesday, 10 July, by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and...
View ArticleHow to Survive an Ice Age
Researchers have uncovered how animals in Antarctica managed to survive glacial periods thousands of years ago when sea-ice encroached on their habitats. DNA evidence indicates that sea creatures used...
View ArticleChinese Experts at Conference to Confer on Environment and Health
NUI Galway is hosting the 2012 Sino-European Symposium on Environment and Health (SESEH 2012), which started yesterday (Monday, 20 August) and runs until Saturday, 25 August. The event provides a...
View ArticleLaunch of Ryan Institute GIS Centre at NUI Galway
The GIS Centre in the Ryan Institute at NUI Galway has been officially launched. ‘GIS’, Geographical Information System and/or Science, covers both technology and a rapidly growing science. It is used...
View ArticleStaying One Step Ahead of Disaster
Ireland is now part of an academic network which hopes to improve disaster preparedness in cities worldwide. NUI Galway’s experts have joined with 67 other universities in efforts to increase society’s...
View ArticleNUI Galway’s Energy Management System to be Certified to ISO 50001
NUI Galway has announced its Energy Management System (EnMS) will be certified to International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 50001. The certification, which will be completed in September...
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