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NUI Galway Alumni Links
CONTENTS:
ALUMNI NEWS
UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS
RECENT ALUMNI EVENTS
UNIVERSITY NEWS
- NUI Galway offers new Honours Degree course in Medical Physics
- NUI Galway set world record with Internet technology
- NUI Galway Human Rights Expert Awarded International Law Accolade
ALUMNI news
Message from the Vice President
Fáilte chuig eagrán eile de e-nuachtlitir na gcéimithe. Mar a druidimuid le deireadh na bliana acadúla, tá réimse mar scéalta san eagrán seo.
Welcome to the last edition of Alumni Links before the summer. As we come to the end of a very busy academic year there are plenty of stories to share with you.
The reunion season is upon us and the numbers participating in our reunion activities keeps growing year by year. The recent Cumann Caoga Bliain Reunion was attended by graduates from as far back as 1940. Reunion 2007 promises to be the biggest ever with the classes of 1957, 1967, 1977, 1982 and 1997 coming together on June 9. If you would like to meet one of your former professors or lecturers, let us know and we will invite him/her. Further reunions are planned for New York, London and Henley.
The latest edition of Ollscéala, the staff newsletter was recently published with a "new look", it contains additional stories about the University and is available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/press/ollsceala/documents/nuigalway_ollsceala_april.pdf
This is exam season at the University, many of you have family relations doing exams, the Best of Luck to all of them
My best wishes for the summer.
Career Mentoring at NUI Galway
Fergal McAndrew BComm 1987 receiving his receiving his certificate for participation in the programme as a mentor from Mary O'Riordan, Vice President for Human Resources & Student Services.
Would you like to share your experience with students? Why not join the Career Connect Mentoring Programme.
The programme is co-ordinated by the Careers Service and Alumni Office and connects Alumni with students within a mentoring relationship for an agreed timeframe. This is an opportunity to provide students with unbiased, frank and hard-won advice to help them progress to their chosen profession after leaving University.
There are many ways that you can participate and it can take as little as ten minutes or as long as you would like.
Email, telephone or face-to-face mentoring
Work shadowing (Allow a student view a ’real life’ working environment)
Career talk/workshops (Share your knowledge and expertise with a group of students)
Career Profiles (The profile will be made available to students on our website).
All Alumni are very welcome
From recent graduates to retirees.
All disciplines/backgrounds/industries required.
Location is not an issue, communication can be via phone/email.
As little or as much time as you have available.
Contact Joan Lally, Careers Service, NUI Galway
Tel: 353 (0)91 492053 or email
joan.lally
nuigalway.ie
UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS
Reunion Weekend 2007
This year those classes celebrating their 50th, 40th, 30th, 25th, and 10th Anniversaries have been invited to celebrate their special milestones at Reunion events planned for 8th -10th June.
'Through the Years' Reunion BBQ - 9th June at 7:00pm in Áras na MacLéinn & the Students' Union Bar, NUI Galway ( please see map ). The SU Bar overlooks the Corrib river. This is a wonderful location for the Reunion BBQ event!
All alumni celebrating their 50th, 40th, 30th , 25th and 10th Anniversaries have been invited to attend this event.
Your Reunion is a wonderful excuse to return to college, so pick up the phone, ring around your friends (don't leave it to others!) and reserve your spot at Reunion today.
For further information contact the NUI Galway Alumni Office or visit the Reunion Website .
London Alumni BBQ
The Alumni Officers Network of Ireland have organised a BBQ for London-based alumni of Irish Universities and Colleges. Details of the event are as follows:
Date: Thursday 5 July
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Callaghans, Russell Square, London WC1N 1HT.
The cost per graduate is £10/€15 and £15/€20 for non-graduate guests.
For further information or to reserve your space please contact Sheila at
alumninuigalway.ie or phone 353 (0)91 493750.
Alumni Event at Henley Royal Regatta
The Alumni Association Board are delighted to invite you to the world's premier rowing event: Henley Royal Regatta. NUI Galway have a proud history at Henley being Ireland's most successful club there over the past twenty years.
Join us for an Edwardian afternoon on the banks of the Thames on Saturday 7th July. Click here for further information.
Choral Society Reunion
A 40th Reunion is being planned for former Choral Society members. This reunion will take place over the weekend of 28 - 30 September 2007 on campus. If you are interested in taking part please contact Dr Brendan O'Connor (BSc 1973, PhD 1981) on
bocaquafact.ie or phone 353 (0)91 756812.
recent ALUMNI EVENTS
Gala Banquet & Alumni Awards
NUI Galway’s eighth annual Gala Banquet, took place at the Radisson SAS Hotel on Saturday, 3rd March 2007, and featured the presentation of the Annual Alumni Awards as well as celebrating student volunteerism as the banquet theme.
The 2007 Gala Banquet celebrated the ALIVE (A Learning Initiative & Volunteering Experience) programme which enables students to register for volunteering opportunities. ALIVE was established in 2003 to harness, acknowledge and support the contribution that NUI Galway students make by volunteering in the community. Income from the Gala Banquet itself will also contribute to this initiative.
The award winners on the night were; Dr Pat Gullane, Medtronic Vascular Award for Health Care and Medical Science; Dr Reg Shaw, Seavite Award for Natural Science; Irial Finan, Bank of Ireland Award for Business and Commerce; Seán O Rourke, AIB Award for Literature, Communications and the Arts; Paddy and Tom Coffey, TBD Award for Engineering, IT and Mathematics; Máiréad Ní Nuadháin, Duais Hewlett-Packard don Ghaeilge and Brian O Donnell, NUI Galway Award for Law, Public Service and Government.
More
Cumann Caoga Bliain celebrations
The fifth annual Cumann Caoga Bliain Celebrations took place on
Thursday 12th April at NUI Galway
. This event was open to all pre-1957 graduates, especially those who had not previously returned for their 50th Reunion.
Over 50 alumni and friends returned to NUI Galway to reminisce and catch up with each other and on all the changes that have been made to NUI Galway since the 1940s and 1950s. They were hosted to lunch by the Alumni Office and Prof Ger Hurley, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & External Affairs who presented Cumann Caoga Bliain newcomers with a commemorative certificate.
University news
NUI Galway offers new Honours Degree course in Medical Physics
The Department of Physics at NUI Galway is to offer a new full-time degree in Physics with Medical Physics. The four-year course, leading to an Honours BSc degree, starts in September 2007.
There is currently a considerable demand for qualified medical physicists in Ireland and in response to this demand, the Department of Physics in conjunction with the Medical Physics Department at Galway University Hospitals, have introduced the new course. The programme will combine essential core physics modules, with medical physics, chemistry, mathematical science, biology and anatomy.
Prof. Wil Van der Putten, Director of the Medical Physics & Bioengineering Centre, Galway University Hospital, welcomed the new course. This is a new programme which merges a core programme in Physics with additional material in biology, anatomy, and various medical diagnostics and instrumentation. There is currently a considerable demand for qualified medical physicists in Ireland and the UK and this demand is expected to grow in the future. More.
NUI Galway set world record with Internet technology
Internet researchers at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway have made a major technological breakthrough in the Semantic Web, a machine readable version of the web which enables more efficient internet searching.
Current internet technology means that users must filter search results and decide what is relevant. The Semantic Web enables the computer to filter information and also powers the intelligent transfer, sharing and negotiation of information between computer systems.
The Semantic Web Search Engine developed at DERI is able to answer queries with more than 7 billion RDF statements in fractions of a second - the largest number reported so far anywhere in the world. An RDF statement is the entity that makes the Semantic Web semantic. Possible application areas include Social Network Applications and Analysis, eHealth applications, Web Search, location based services, and financial searches. More.
NUI Galway Human Rights Expert Awarded International Law Accolade
The Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway, Professor William Schabas has been awarded the Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law.
Prof Schabas was honoured for his book, ’The UN International Criminal Tribunals: the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone’ (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which was chosen from a list of 60 publications worldwide. The Society awards three certificates every year for what it judges to be the best books in the field of
international law.
The American Society of International Law is one of the leading learned societies in the field of international law. Prof. Schabas received the accolade at the Annual Meeting of the Society in Washington, D.C. from Society President, Professor José Alvarez. Certificate of Merit Awards were also presented to Professor James Hathaway, of the University of Michigan, and Professors Fionualla Ni Aoilain and Oren Gross, of the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster. More.
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This page was last updated Friday, October 07, 2011