The Year in Pictures

On 19 May 2015, The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited NUI Galway on the start of their visit to Galway, Clare and Sligo.

Madison Ní Thoirealaigh Stockon and Éabha Ní Dhonnchadha from Scoil Fhursa, Galway, experienced the sound and smoke effects during the ‘Science of Sound’ show visit to their school as part of the 17th Galway Science Festival.

NUI Galway’s iconic Quadrangle lit up in orange as part of World Suicide Prevention Day on Thursday, 10 September 2015, and as part of the national campaign ‘Cycle Against Suicide’ in collaboration with the UNESCO International Year of Light 2015 and Solus.

Over 2,500 students graduated from NUI Galway during Autumn Conferring Week in October.

Young scientists from Galway Educate Together National School and St. James National School, Bushypark, Galway, preparing fantastic DNA with Anna Trego, their NUI Galway Cell Explorers mentor.

In January 2015, Julia Filiapiak (5) from Scoil Shéamais Naofa, Barna, Co. Galway, brought her teddy to the 10th annual Teddy Bear hospital for treatment. The Hospital is organised by Sláinte Society, the NUI Galway branch of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations.

Pictured viewing the solar eclipse at NUI Galway on 16 July 2015, where up to 500 people gathered in front of the Quadrangle, were Nevenoe Guegan, Laura Boyle and Aonghus Mullins of the NUI Galway Centre for Astronomy.

Twins Sarah and Amy McMahon (10) from Castlegar, Co. Galway, were among the sixth cohort of ‘graduates’ from the University’s Youth Academy. Since its establishment in 2012, over 1,000 children have graduated from the Youth Academy.

Aoibhin Connolly from Moycullen, Co. Galway, gets up close to a tarantula at NUI Galway’s ‘Scientist for a Day’ workshop.