Tagged: Queen's University Belfast & News
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Screening the marine for new chemistry News
17.05.2013 Dr Margaret Rae and colleagues on the Beaufort Marine Biodiscovery Project are looking to the sea in the hunt for clinically useful molecules. She tells Claire O'Connell about... -
Large Hadron Collider replica and physicist Peter Higgs to visit Belfast News
01.05.2013 Over the coming days, visitors to Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) will be able to walk through a replica of a section of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel, the world’s most... -
Queen’s student named AppCamp champion for vaccinations app News
25.04.2013 The Queen’s University Belfast software engineering student behind Vacci-Nations, an app packed with important health information for travellers, has been crowned winner of... -
Trinity and Queen’s teams triumph at Citi upStart Awards News
25.03.2013 Precision Engineered from Trinity College Dublin and Platform Planet from Queen’s University Belfast emerged victorious at the 2013 upStart entrepreneurship awards organised by... -
How cities can draw upon technology to become smarter and more sustainable News
21.02.2013 Up to 600 delegates from all over the world are convening in Dublin this week for the eighth forum of the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty (WACAP) to explore how cities...Categories: Sustainability, Software, Science, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineer, Energy, Education, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Design -
Global business expert Hanadi Jabado to talk entrepreneurship at UCC and QUB News
10.10.2012 All businesses, be they start-ups or established firms, need to keep thinking like entrepreneurs and continue to innovate – that’s according to Hanadi Jabado, the serial... -
IOP awards in London recognise Galway and Belfast physicists News
08.10.2012 Prof Colin O’Dowd from NUI Galway and Prof Colin Latimer from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) have both been presented with prizes at the Institute of Physics (IOP) annual... -
Four Irish universities listed among top 200 universities in the world News
11.09.2012 Four Irish universities have been listed among the world’s top 200, according to the QS University Rankings. These include: Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin,... -
Queen’s University Belfast pact to open China college News
13.04.2012 A new partnership between Queen's University Belfast and the China Medical University in Shenyang, China, will see some 1,000 Chinese students studying for Queen’s University... -
Global plan to tackle cybercrime emerges from Queen’s University Belfast News
11.07.2012 A new international plan to tackle cybercrime has been launched at Queen’s University in Belfast involving major IT security organisations including Kapersky Labs, Altera, BAE... -
CERN expert to speak to engineers in Belfast News
20.04.2012 Belfast native Dr Stephen Myers, who works as director of accelerators and technology at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, will be in Belfast next...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Tech, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy -
Uni teams Woogie Tap and Happy Swap win upStart awards News
29.03.2012 Woogie Tap from Queen’s University Belfast and Happy Swap from Trinity College Dublin are the two teams that have won the first-ever upStart entrepreneurship programme. Their...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Science, R&D, Internet, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Financial, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business -
£25K awards open for Northern Ireland’s scientific researchers News
12.03.2012 NISP Connect and Bank of Ireland UK have launched the 2012 £25K awards programme which reaches out to Northern Ireland’s research base involved in pioneering innovations around... -
New NI start-up spins out of NISP Springboard programme News
03.02.2012 Northern Ireland start-up Thermblow, a spin-out of the Polymer Research Cluster at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), has become the latest graduate from the NISP CONNECT... -
Irish cloud firm Sonru inspires CERN on recruitment News
25.11.2011 CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, was last week transformed into an internet hub when World Wide Web pioneer Robert Cailliau gave the keynote at a CERN... -
Ireland’s R&I Minister sets record on university rankings News
22.11.2011 Ireland’s Minister for Research and Innovation Séan Sherlock, TD, has reacted strongly to recent rankings of Irish universities from Times Higher Education and QS World... -
Flish technology could make satellite dishes obsolete News
05.10.2011 A team called Flish from Queen’s University Belfast has developed a low-cost, low-power antenna capable of picking up satellite signals automatically, which has won it the... -
UK top cyber security research centre expands in NI News
02.03.2011 CSIT, the UK’s lead university research centre for the development of technology to counter malicious cyber attacks, is to expand its operation at Queen’s Institute of... -
Electro Fishing Services helps tackle crayfish problem News
24.02.2011 Down-based Electro Fishing Services is being assisted by Invest Northern Ireland to solve the developing threat of American Signal Crayfish to native fish including salmon and...Categories: Development, Green Tech -
Human wireless nodes drive body-to-body networks News
28.10.2010 Novel sensors carried by members of the public could form the backbone of an ultra high-bandwidth mobile internet infrastructure - and reduce the density of mobile phone base...