Tagged: NUI Galway & 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... -
Maths upskilling course for teachers in Ireland seeks applicants News
14.05.2013 A programme geared toward improving the skills of ‘out-of-field’ maths teachers at post-primary level is receiving up to €2m in funding from the Irish Government. -
New study aims to measure Europe’s app economy News
09.05.2013 A new project known as Eurapp has been launched by the European Commission with the aim of measuring the size of the app economy in Europe. The Digital Enterprise Research... -
Delve into casino life at new Science Gallery show Risk Lab (video) News
02.05.2013 What is your perception of risk? Want to learn more about the psychology and maths behind games such as roulette and poker? Well, the Science Gallery in Dublin has been... -
Using stem cells as stealth vehicles against cancer News
26.04.2013 Dr Róisín Dwyer is using adult stem cells to seek out and target tumours. Claire O’Connell found out more about how she is developing ‘stealth vehicles’ to deliver anti-cancer... -
Dragons’ Den’s Cisco kid to advise start-up hopefuls at Exponential event News
13.03.2013 NUI Galway students, as well as members of the public, will be able to get the scoop on all it takes to start a business at an event in Galway City featuring Barry O’Sullivan,... -
NUI Galway researchers seek to lighten fuel tanks for space launches News
21.02.2013 Two PhD students in mechanical engineering at NUI Galway are helping to develop new materials to cut down the cost of launching rockets into space. -
NUI Galway secures funding to continue software design conversion course News
12.02.2013 NUI Galway, along with software industry partners, has secured funding from the Higher Education Authority to continue running its one-year higher diploma in software design and... -
Capturing clinical innovation to improve patient care News
21.01.2013 Clinicians are often well placed to come up with ideas for new or improved medical technologies, but how do they go from concept to clinic? The Clinical Innovation Award, hosted... -
NUI Galway's Click and Connect computer training returns News
21.01.2013 Due to demand, NUI Galway's free computer training initiative Click and Connect is about to kick off again to help individuals learn the basics of using a computer and the... -
NUI Galway gets ESA funding for ash cloud research project News
19.12.2012 Researchers at NUI Galway have been awarded €500,000 in European Space Agency (ESA) funding as part of a research consortium that has been granted €2.1m to detect ash clouds and...Tags: European Space Agency, NUI Galway, -
Job security is a key barrier to uptake of cloud computing by IT managers News
12.12.2012 A key barrier to the uptake of cloud computing technologies is reassuring and convincing IS/IT managers that their jobs would not become obsolete if they shifted to the cloud, a... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 45-41 News
10.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
Big ideas give med tech an edge News
26.11.2012 This Wednesday, Enterprise Ireland’s Big Ideas Technology Showcase will take place in Dublin. Nineteen presenters will pitch their ‘big ideas’ to potential mentors, business... -
€4.4m Linked2Safety EU project leverages electronic medical records News
21.11.2012 Linked2Safety, a new €4.4m EU project to help medical practitioners make decisions and improve safety in clinical research, is using the latest web technologies to leverage the... -
NUI Galway to lead €6m EU research project to treat diabetes News
20.11.2012 A new €6m EU-funded project that’s being led by NUI Galway is aiming to find out whether stem cells can safely control blood glucose levels and tackle six different types of... -
NUI Galway institute to team up with four Indian institutes on biomaterials research News
06.11.2012 The Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) at NUI Galway is strengthening Ireland-India research relations with the news that the biomaterials research group is... -
Abbey Theatre and NUI Galway team up on theatre’s digital archive News
22.10.2012 Some 1.8m items belonging to the Abbey Theatre archive are headed for A Digital Journey Through Irish Theatre History, a digital multimedia archive partnership between the... -
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... -
Hype-busting study reveals the cloud does save businesses money News
03.10.2012 Despite the hype and claims by large software companies about the miracles of cloud computing, a combined study by Ireland’s National Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero)...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Research, IT Management, Internet, Global CIO, Education, Digital Business, CIO