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Celebrating the Arts on
Campus
Members of the Belfast Circus School with actor Mick
Lally who officially opened 'Múscailt', NUI, Galway's Arts
Festival, which took place in February. The festival provided an
opportunity to showcase and celebrate the artistic achievements
of the University community – students, staff and graduates
– as well as those of top national and international artists.
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Taking Care of Mind, Body and
Soul
Pictured at the launch of Mind, Body and Soul are
from left, Dr. Margaret Hodgins, Department of Health Promotion;
the President and Matt Doran, Student Services.
NUI, Galway has long recognised the importance of
promoting and protecting the health of staff and students and has
an established record of providing health education and a wide range
of facilities and support services. Indeed, the nation's first chair
of Health Promotion was established in NUI, Galway over 10 years
ago. But health is much more than the absence of disease, and a
health-promoting university goes beyond providing education and
services, to making health an integral part of the culture, processes
and policies of the university. A co-ordinated holistic approach
is needed to create a healthy working and learning environment and
to foster links with the wider community, developing the role of
the university as an advocate for health.
In recognition of the need to create a healthy working
and learning environment, NUI, Galway Student Services introduced
"Mind, Body and Soul," a broadly-based health and wellbeing
programme, in February. A comprehensive range of activities was
organised, covering aspects of physical, mental, social and spiritual
health. An extensive programme of talks, demonstrations and workshops
on popular areas of interest such as “Healthy Eating”,
“Drugs and Alcohol in Ireland”, “Personal Assistance
in Choosing Exercise” and “Using the Mind Successfully:
Practical Tips on Effective Learning”, took place.
This was a University-based programme devised and
delivered in partnership with the Western Health Board.
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Anthropology Classic
Given New Lease of Life
Pictured from left are, Dr. Anne Byrne,
Michael D. Higgins
, Dr. Ricca Edmondson and Dr. Tony Varley.
The third edition of Family and Community
in Ireland, by Arensberg and Kimball, was launched recently by Michael
D. Higgins, TD. An extended introduction that brings to light much
new material has been provided by Dr. Anne Byrne, Dr. Ricca Edmondson
and Dr. Tony Varley of the University's Department of Political
Science and Sociology. The book is a world-renowned social anthropological
study of how a traditional rural society in Co. Clare functioned
in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Weather Station
Finds New Home
Pictured are Professor Gerard Jennings
(left) and Frank Gaffney beside
the Stevenson screen, which houses the meteorological thermometers.
Many members of staff will be familiar
with the little white box on stilts which is the climatological
weather station. Established in 1861 by Arthur Hill Curtis, Professor
of Natural Philosophy (now Experimental Physics) and originally
located in the President's garden, the station has been moved many
times and has now been permanently located off the Newcastle road,
south of Corrib village.
Some recent climatological observations
show, for example, that December 2001 was the sunniest on record,
with February 2002 being the second wettest February since records
began in 1861. The observations also indicate that the last decade
of each of the past two centuries were the warmest on record.
Mr. Frank Gaffney, formerly Chief Technician
in the Department of Experimental Physics, has been looking after
the daily weather observations since January 1966. The temperature
record features daily in the Irish Times.
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