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Celebrating Success

 
 

The Royal Irish Academy has elected three of NUI Galway’s top academics for admission in recognition of their academic achievement. NUI Galway’s Professor Peter McHugh, Professor Colin O’Dowd and Professor Donal O’Regan were among twenty-three scholars who joined the ranks of Ernest Walton, Erwin Schrödinger, Seamus Heaney and Mary Robinson by becoming Members of the Royal Irish Academy.

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Dr Shane Darcy, a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, has been awarded the prestigious Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize 2010. The prize is awarded annually for the best article by a younger scholar in this leading international journal. Dr Darcy’s article was entitled ’Prosecuting the War Crime of Collective Punishment: Is It Time to Amend the Rome Statute?’

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Dr. Anne MacFarlane, lecturer in Primary Care in the Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine, NUI Galway, has been awarded an EU-FP7 grant worth €3 million to lead a large collaborative research project known as RESTORE (REsearch into implementation STrategies to support patients of different ORigins and language background in a variety of European primary care settings).

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Drs Maura Grealy, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine , Lucy Byrnes, Biochemistry, School of Natural Sciences and colleagues have been successful in obtaining €250,000 funding from the Health Research Board for their project to develop a model of ARVC in zebrafish in order to  further understand the congential heart defect which is a leading cause of sudden adult death. The aim is to develop strong models for diagnosis and treatment.

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Dr Liam Glynn, Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice at NUI Galway and Clinical Director of the “WestREN” Network is a principal investigator in a recent award from the European Northern Periphery Programme (NPP) of €2.3 million. With collaborators Prof. Andrew Murphy of the Department of General Practice and Prof. Gearoid O Laighin of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NUI Galway will administer €420,000 of this award.

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Natalie Haustrup, a PhD student at the National Centre for Laser Applications (NCLA), School of Physics was the winner of the Graduate Student Award for the paper submitted to the 2011 E-MRS Spring Meeting. Natalie presented her work on nanoparticle generation during laser ablation of thin metal films to the Symposium. Natalie’s PhD research is funded by an IRCSET embark fellowship and is supervised by Dr. Gerard O’Connor in the School of Physics.  

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Saravanan Rengaraj, a PhD student in the Biomolecular Electronics Research Laboratory was recently awarded first prize in the poster competition during, “Eirelec’11: Electrochemistry the Future?, an international meeting held in Adare Co. Limerick in May 2011.

Lisbon Treaty Award

Dr. Laurent Pech was recently awarded a European prize for outstanding research on the Lisbon Treaty along with Dr. Peter van Elsuwege, Professor of European Law at the University of Ghent. The award ceremony took place in Brussels on June 17.

This is the first ever research prize awarded by a European academic network dedicated to European integration studies ( www.lisboan.net) which regroups 67 institutions of higher education and research from 32 countries, including the 27 EU Member States. Applicants from all disciplines were invited to apply.

The selection committee, presided by Professor Brigid Laffan (Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics in the Department of Politics, UCD), considered Dr. Pech’s book on The EU and its Constitution (Clarus Press, 2008) as an outstanding example of interdisciplinary scholarship and an important contribution to the literature on the legal and political nature of the EU in the post-Lisbon context. The committee also proved sensible to Dr. Pech’s considerable scholarship on particular aspects of the Treaty of Lisbon and was of the view that his research has contributed substantially to the state of the art of research on the Treaty of Lisbon and has significantly influenced academic and political debates in Europe.

 

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