16 May 2012

NUI Maynooth formally recognised the achievements of influential Irish American Thomas J Donohue, in an Honorary Conferring ceremony on 16 May

11 May 2012

98% of last year's Masters in Business Graduates in full-time employment

08 May 2012

An NUI Maynooth student has been selected from more than 350 Irish applicants to participate in the Washington Ireland Program

27 April 2012

A team of three students from NUI Maynooth have won the Irish Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design competition

19 April 2012

Researchers from the Department of Psychology at NUI Maynooth have shown, for the first time that group-based parenting programmes, are more effective and cost efficient in reducing childhood conduct problems and antisocial behaviour

04 April 2012

Jimmy Deenihan TD, and film director Neil Jordan, marked the success of the recent IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation Fund campaign with the launch of plans for a new IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation & Research Centre at NUI Maynooth

30 March 2012

A team of analysts from NIRSA based at NUI Maynooth have studied the census results from the CSO and applied the data to their All-Ireland mapping tool 

29 March 2012

Annual Galway Cycle has raised €850,000 for charities over 25 years

23 March 2012

A conference on the Ethnographic Approaches to Suicide in Ireland took place at NUI Maynooth on Friday 16 March  

20 March 2012

On St. Patrick’s Day the famous Plaza Mayor in Salamanca was illuminated green thanks to the initiative of Ben Finnegan, a student at NUI Maynooth currently on Erasmus in Salamanca

13 March 2012

The Department offered to facilitate and host one of the planned Presidential Seminars outlined in President Higgins’ inauguration speech

12 March 2012

NUI Maynooth today announced 50 new Taught Masters Bursaries for students commencing studies in September 2012

12 March 2012

Growth in students applying to Science & Technology, Law and Primary Education Courses

08 March 2012

The functions, size and scale of new and restructured local authorities was discussed at a major conference at NUI Maynooth this week entitled “Local Government Reform: Myth or Reality”.    

01 March 2012

During the day-long symposium, the crisis was examined through the perspectives of other states within the European Union and beyond

29 Feb 2012

Professor Rob Kitchin receives the AAG Meridian Book Award for his outstanding contribution to Geography.

27 Feb 2012

An NUI Maynooth-led proposal, has been chosen as one of the select “Public Engagement Programmes” which will be held as part of the Euro Science Open Forum, hosted in Dublin.

20 Feb 2012

For the first time in 36 years, NUI Maynooth Freshers' Soccer team were crowned Harding Cup Champions

17 Feb 2012

Professor Philip Nolan delivers Inaugural Lecture ‘A Place of Universal Learning’ at NUI Maynooth

2 Feb 2012

Discovery of new words in renowned liturgical manuscript will unlock secrets in other Old Irish documents

07 Feb 2012

Considering the challenges of stagnant demand, further international regulation and domestic pressure on taxes, creating 10,000 net new jobs in the IFSC by 2016, as envisaged in the official Govenment strategy, is extremely ambitious.

02 Feb 2012

The Irish National Hunt Punchestown Festival generated a record €59.8 million contribution to the economy of Kildare and its surrounding regions in 2011, according to an independent economic benefit analysis report carried out by NUI Maynooth.

24 Jan 2012

An Irish-designed psychological test, invented and developed by the Department of Psychology at NUI Maynooth, can successfully predict whether a person addicted to cocaine will attend treatment and how successful the treatment will be. 

19 Jan 2012

NIRSA has developed the AIRO-ICLRD Accessibility Mapping tool, which allows analysis of specific areas across the whole island in terms of accessibility to a range of health, transport and education services including distance to 24 Hour Emergency Hospitals, Fire-stations, GP Surgeries, Garda/PSNI Stations and Schools.

11 Jan 2012

The ultimate fate of a cell is determined mainly by an internal process, contrary to previously held scientific belief that the behaviour of a cell was dictated by external factors, this is one of the findings of a leading team of international multidisciplinary scientists including NUI Maynooth mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy and published in this month’s Science magazine. 

11 Jan 2012

The Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium (CDPC) from NUI Maynooth launched the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, Tanzania (YST) on Tuesday 10th January in Dublin.

06 Dec 2011

Dr. Coogan, a neuroscientist based at the Department of Psychology NUI Maynooth, has published the results of a study linking Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults to the circadian rhythm, commonly referred to as the body clock.

28 Nov 2011

Universities are a space where the possibilities of the future are charted and realized, where the nature of the present is subjected to rigorous examination and debate, and where the past experiences of humankind are preserved, better understood, and creatively interpreted.  The principle of Academic Freedom is at the heart of this process.

25 Nov 2011

Animal life as we know it on earth has been around for a third less, that is 450 million years less, than conventionally understood by science – that’s one of the findings of a leading team of international multidisciplinary scientists including NUI Maynooth’s Dr. Davide Pisani and published in this month’s Science magazine.

25 Nov 2011

NUI Maynooth sociology lecturer Dr. Paul Ryan today launched his new book, ‘Asking Angela Macnamara: An Intimate History of Irish Lives’. Dr Ryan charts the gradual emergence of a sexually aware nation through the columns of Angela Macnamara in the 1960s & 70s

11 Nov 2011

In his inaugural lecture at NUI Maynooth Professor Gerry Kearns provided a fascinating analysis of mid-19th Century Irish history to draw parallels and lessons for the major unresolved political and economic questions Ireland is facing today. 

10 Nov 2011

NUI Maynooth received a unique gift with the donation of private correspondence from renowned Nigerian writer and social activist Ken Saro-Wiwa written while he awaited execution in Port Harcourt detention centre from 1993 – 1995.

09 Nov 2011

A total of 136 scholarships were awarded to students at the Entrance Scholarship Awards ceremony which took place in NUI Maynooth on Monday, 7 November. The awards recognise the high points achieved in this year’s Leaving Certificate Exam by students attending the University.

18 Oct 2011

Dublin’s Local Authorities and NUI Maynooth invite businesses, technologists and researchers to join unique new data network.  Across the EU, public sector bodies are estimated to be sitting on a potential treasure trove of data, worth up to €27 billion*.

14 Oct 2011

Organisations no longer have to ‘shoot in the dark’ with regard to their IT investments as the IT-CMF framework from the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) has established itself as “an invaluable evaluation and strategic tool for companies and entities throughout the world across all industries and sectors”,

04 Oct 2011

The World University Rankings, published today by Thomson Reuters, show NUI Maynooth is now numbered among the top 400 universities in the world and is the only Irish university to increase its ranking this year.

04 Oct 2011

Minister for Education, Ruairi Quinn T.D. formally launched BioAT - a unique PhD collaboration between Dublin City University, NUI Maynooth, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Institute of Technology Tallaght -

03 Oct 2011

Governments need to do more to protect nations against global health threats, a lecture organised by NUI Maynooth’s Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium was told today. Pulitzer prize-winner Laurie Garrett, a leading global health scientist, said that unless governments come together and develop a concerted global strategy to stop the spread of disease, the world is in danger of a pandemic on a scale which hasn’t been witnessed before.

23 Sept 2011

Professor Marian Lyons delivered her inaugural lecture at NUI Maynooth today. The lecture, entitled ‘Fashioning Irish national identity: the contribution of Irish émigrés in early modern Europe’, reflected on the period of history around the Battle of Kinsale and the subsequent Flight of the Earls, and how the modern notion of Irish national identity was largely fashioned by these migrants with various cultural and political traditions.

20 Sept 2011

NUI Maynooth has been listed in the Princeton Review “The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition”, the only international university outside of North America and Canada and the first ever Irish college to be selected for the publication since it was first published in 1992.

12 Sept 2011

Ireland needs to join up Government policies to unlock the potential of all Irish regions and build a sustainable regional economy. This was the key message delivered by the OECD to the Regional Studies Association at NUI Maynooth.

09 Sept 2011

Almost 1,900 students, a record high for the University, have graduated from NUI Maynooth this week. The University has experienced the highest growth in CAO first choice applications of any university in Ireland and in recent years NUI Maynooth has been Ireland’s fastest growing university showing a cumulative growth in CAO first choice applications of 55% over the past five years.

08 Sept 2011

Ciaran O’ Caroll, a graduate student at NUI Maynooth has won the inaugural DRHEA Future Voices competition. Ciaran, who was awarded the winning prize by Ruairí Quinn T.D, Minister for Education and Skills is currently undertaking a PhD in the Department of Chemistry at NUI Maynooth.

06 Sept 2011

An international research project led by Dr Davide Pisani, an evolutionary biologist from NUI Maynooth, and financed by Science Foundation Ireland and NASA, has made a fundamental breakthrough in the study of the relationships between groups of animals, providing a new framework to understand the origin and evolution of animal species.

22 Aug 2011

NUI Maynooth has experienced the highest growth in CAO first choice applications of any university in Ireland.  Its number of first choice applications grew by 8% year on year, while the number of students applying to third level institutions remained flat. In recent years NUI Maynooth has been Ireland’s fastest growing university and shows a cumulative growth in CAO first choice applications of 55% over the past five years.

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20 Aug 2011

19 Aug 2011

The exhibition ‘Forgotten Voices: the Great Irish Famine revealed through the Strokestown Estate Archive’, organised by the OPW-NUI Maynooth Archive & Research Centre at Castletown, was formally launched by Director of the National Museum of Ireland, Dr. Patrick Wallace.

03 Aug 2011

The story of the changing nature of Ireland’s population through 160 years of famine, economic hardship, partition, Land Commission, emigration and Celtic Tiger boom is now available to the public in its greatest ever detail

19 July 2011

RoboEireann, Ireland's Robot Soccer team from NUI Maynooth, was victorious this year in the Open Challenge competition at Robocup 2011 held in Istanbul, Turkey.  The team, consisting of students and staff from the Hamilton Institute, Department of Electronic Engineering and Department of Computer Science at NUI Maynooth participated in the Standard Platform League (SPL) against 26 other teams from around the world.

27 June 2011

The need to challenge silo thinking within built environment professions was highlighted today at “Making the Built Environment Work”, a week long Summer School at NUI Maynooth, opened by Willie Penrose TD, Minister for Housing and Planning at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

27 June 2011

The four Dublin Local Authorities with NUI Maynooth have announced the establishment of ‘Dublinked’, an innovative new data-sharing network.  The network is seeking to link data, sectors, skills and people to generate new commercial opportunities for the Dublin Region.  Dublinked will also provide the Dublin Region’s first Open Data Platform which makes public data available for research and reuse. To enable the start up phase of this project IBM Research is providing, on a non exclusive basis, a platform of open collaboration technologies and research tools.

16 June 2011

Dr Jiri Vala, Department of Mathematical Physics, has recieved an SFI Principal Investigator Award to further the development of quantum computation. Describing his research, Dr Vala explained that “despite the rapidly increasing speeds and ever-growing memory of today’s computers, even supercomputers have their limitations

10 June 2011

Two researchers from NUI Maynooth have been awarded Fulbright scholarships to undertake research in the US. Lorcan Walsh, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering will pursue his research at Harvard Medical School, and Ronan Doherty, a PhD candidate in Nua-Ghaeilge will travel to the University of Notre Dame.

13 June 2011

NUI Maynooth this weekend honoured two former students at the annual Alumni Ball. Writer and poet Mary O Donnell received the President’s Alumni Award for 2011 from Professor Tom Collins, while Gemma Ennis, acting deputy principal in Kilbride National School was inducted into the “Made in Maynooth” Alumni Hall of Fame.

08 June 2011

Mr Eddie O'Connor, founder and Chief Executive of Mainstream Renewable Power, historian and women’s rights advocate Mary Cullen, a former NUI Maynooth lecturer and senior public servant and legal affairs expert Joe Brosnan, a graduate from NUI Maynooth as well as leading linguistics academic and researcher Professor David Little received an Honorary Degree at NUI Maynooth.

07 June 2011
The Library of NUI Maynooth has received an important donation of papers by the Irish dramatist, Teresa Deevy (1894 – 1963). Born in Waterford and hearing-impaired from the age of 20 by Ménière's disease, Teresa Deevy was described as “the most important dramatist writing for the Irish theatre” by her fellow playwright and Director of the Abbey Theatre, Lennox Robinson.

01 June 2011
Senior ICT professionals in Europe are worried that growing trends in the mobility of ICT practitioners among member states are hampered by a lack of transparency in ICT competences, certifications and qualifications, with over 1,300 ICT certification courses currently available across Europe, the European Summer Summit of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) heard at NUI Maynooth.

24 May 2011
Alvaro Palomo Navarro, founder of eBitez, a company that will develop smart phone application software to lead the next generation of supermarket online shopping, has won the NUI Maynooth 2011 Student Entrepreneur Competition. Alvaro, a final year PhD student in Electronic Engineering, wins the top prize of €6,000 to help bring eBitez, an innovative way of cooking and shopping a wide variety of meals on a budget, to life.

24 May 2011

The Department of Law, NUI Maynooth, has announced today that the Honorable Society of King's Inns has accredited its new four-year, full-time undergraduate LL.B. Bachelor of Laws degree.

10 May 2011

It’s been a fun and challenging year of learning and study for mother and son duo Nancy and Sean O’Broin who are just about to complete part-time Certificates in Local History at NUI Maynooth. 

9 May 2011

9 May 2011.  The Maynooth Chamber Choir last night celebrated its silver anniversary with a gala concert attended by President McAleese as Guest of Honour. The Chamber Choir, consisting of twenty two students from NUI Maynooth and St Patrick’s College Maynooth was conducted by Aengus Ó Maoláin, a graduate of music at the University, and President of the Maynooth Student’s Union.

06 April 2011
In his inaugural lecture at NUI Maynooth Professor Brendan Gleeson outlined the real, imminent global consequences and challenges created by climate change and the radical action needed by all countries, including Ireland, to minimise the forthcoming trauma. 

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06 April 2011

NUI Maynooth welcomed over 250 Irish SME executives and entrepreneurs to its biannual business networking event, NUI Maynooth Connect at Carton House, Kildare today. Offered as an opportunity to ‘connect and innovate’, NUI Maynooth Connect provides an opportunity for Irish companies to connect with the University’s researchers, establish new partnerships, network with other SMEs and seek vital funding.

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29 March 2011

Cerebeo – a new company dedicated to improving the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of the €1 billion Outsourced Drug Research and Development industry was today spun out from NUI Maynooth. Cerebeo is a specialized outsourced research company using some of the most innovative models and techniques available in science and is the second company spun out from the research of Professor John Lowry, who was winner of the 2009 Enterprise Ireland Lifesciences Commercialisation Award.  The company is targeting a turnover of €6m by 2016 and will be recruiting two technicians by the end of this year.

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10 March 2011
The ‘limitless’ potential of mining and utilising user-generated content on the internet is being explored through a world-first European study into the next generation of the internet in which NUI Maynooth is a key participant. 

Among the potential applications the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) at NUI Maynooth, under Professor Stewart Fotheringham will be examining through the €6 million Geocrowd project along with colleagues in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and Greece

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09 March 2011
CAO application figures released this week show that NUI Maynooth has achieved the highest growth rate of all universities in the country. The percentage of first preference applications to NUI Maynooth has grown by 9.1%, with the total number of students applying to third level slightly down, at -0.9%.

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04 March 2011
NUI Maynooth have a well-earned reputation as one of the giant-killers of Sigerson Cup action and they caused another upset with victory over the University of Limerick in yesterday’sr quarter-final.  This is the second successive year we have reached the semi-finals.

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01 March 2011

A large scale Irish study - commissioned by Archways and led by NUI Maynooth - involving 11 schools, 217 children and 22 teachers, has proven, for the first time in a European context, the effectiveness and value for money of an innovative teacher classroom management programme in Irish schools. The study, ‘Positive classrooms, Positive Children’, was launched today at the Department of Education by NUI Maynooth President, Professor Tom Collins.

16 February 2011

The Governing Authority of NUI Maynooth today confirmed the appointment of Professor Philip Nolan as President of the University. He will take up the position on 15th August 2011.

03 February 2011
The All Island Research Observatory (AIRO) at NUI Maynooth is providing general election candidates and political parties with free access to an online socio-economic mapping portal with rich information that can revolutionise their approach to policy formation, decision making and campaign planning.  The portal will allow election candidates to quickly analyse data for all 43 constituencies relating to potential voters; population demographics; socio-economic status; deprivation indexes; economic status; housing; transport; social class; marital status; religion; industry; households; and education.

02 February 2011
IVI – Tues 1st Feb; Sustainable IT (SICT) has the potential to realize savings of almost US$950 billion for global business by 2020, but left unchecked the rising cost of energy could drive a 20-30% increase in IT spend, equivalent to US$450 billion, over the next five years, the annual North American summit of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) was told today.

31 January 2011
Lord Alan Rodger of the UK Supreme Court and Mr Justice Nial Fennelly of the Supreme Court of Ireland led a roundtable discussion in NUI Maynooth on the use of foreign law in constitutional rights cases. 

28 January 2011
Dr Nataša Mitic, Department of  Chemsitry, NUI Maynooth received one of only two Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Young Researcher Awards (PIYRA) in 2010.  Now in its seventh year, PIYRA is one of SFI’s most prestigious accolades, acknowledging young engineers and scientists who have displayed extraordinary ability and leadership in their particular field.

26 January 2011
The 4th annual Library Publications Festival at NUI Maynooth celebrates the publications of the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy.  NUI Maynooth has a strong tradition of research and scholarship

20 January 2011
President of Ireland, Mary McAleese has today (20 January) received the NUI Maynooth, John O’ Connell Award recipients; Donal Bligh, Ronnie Fay and John McCormick, at a special ceremony in Áras an Uachtaráin. The John O’ Connell Awards recognise outstanding individuals working to create a just, equal and inclusive society.

19 January 2011
With European spend on ICT expected to reach over €600 billion in 2011, the European Commission has contracted the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), housed at NUI Maynooth, to conduct a groundbreaking research project which will strengthen and further professionalize the vital role of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) and ICT professionals in European business, public sector and academic organizations.  IVI is inviting all interested parties to engage with the research project.

04 January 2011
Scientists at NUI Maynooth have devised a solution to what is a major challenge for cities worldwide – the provision of widespread, free, effective broadband for all their citizens.  For more than 10 years, this has been a goal of cities in their drive to support the ‘smart economy’ but it had remained elusive due to technological limitations.