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Arts Council of Ireland Award for PhD Student
Fearghus Ó Conchúir, a PhD student in Geography with an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Award (jointly between Maynooth University and the Project Arts Centre Dublin)
Date: Wednesday, 01 July 2015
Climate Change discussions at the Vatican
Climate Change discussions at the Vatican
Date: Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Consultation Days - Department of Geography
The Geography Department will be holding a consultation day for students to call in and discuss/review aspects of their 2014-15 examination performances on Tuesday 30th June. A number of Geography staff will be available for discussion on that day between 9.30 and 1.00 in the morning and between 2.00 and 4.30 in the afternoon. If students are not able to call into the Department on that day, they should make use of the second Departmental consultation day on the 10th July.
Date: Thursday, 25 June 2015
Doctoral Programme in Geography takes the Honours
Each year, the Geographical Society of Ireland honours the best dissertation in Geography. The assessment is made by a panel of Irish and international scholars. This year, all three finalists were from our own Maynooth Geography Department.
Date: Monday, 08 June 2015
New paper shows volunteers like you can help reassess the historical tropical cyclone record
A paper in April’s edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published today and co-authored by Peter Thorne shows that citizen scientist classifiers can help unravel the mysteries of tropical cyclones and climate change.
Date: Tuesday, 02 June 2015
2015 Alumni Geography Lecture
Ar an 7 Bealtaine, tháinig beagnach 100 alumnus de chuid Mhá Nuad le chéile chun éisteacht leis na torthaí taighde is déanaí á gcur i láthair ag painéal d’eolaithe aeráide ó Roinn Tíreolaíochta na hollscoile, roinn a bhfuil aitheantas idirnáisiúnta bainte amach aici.
Date: Friday, 08 May 2015
Geography in QS rankings for the 4th Year
The recent international QS rankings of academic research once again places Maynooth Geography in the group of 100-150th ranked Departments in the world.
Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2015
Maynooth University Academics recognised by Association of American Geographers
The Association of American Geographers (AAG), the largest and most respected organisation of geographers in the world, has recognised two Maynooth University academics, conferring the AAG Media Achievement Award on Professor Rob Kitchin and naming Professor Gerry Kearns as its Distinguished Historical Geographer for 2015.
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2015
New Research shows water protests motivated by austerity and democracy; indicate new form of citizen’s politics in Ireland
New research conducted by Dr Rory Hearne, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, has found that the recent water protests (the largest protest social movement in Ireland since Independence) was motivated by a range of factors and not just water charges.
Date: Tuesday, 21 April 2015
New research examines motivation behind water protests
New research conducted by Dr Rory Hearne of the Maynooth University Department of Geography has found that the recent water protests were motivated by a range of factors, aside from water charges.
Date: Tuesday, 21 April 2015