15 December 2010
The Governing Authority of NUI Maynooth today confirmed the appointment of former Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman Baroness Nuala O’Loan as Chairman.  She will take up the position immediately.

09 December 2010
Sixteen GAA students from NUI Maynooth were last night presented with prestigious MBNA GAA Scholarships by Bryan Kelly, Business Finance Officer with MBNA Ireland and Professor Tom Collins, President of NUI Maynooth.

09 December 2010
NUI Maynooth today announced the establishment of the Callan Research Institute which will focus on the application of computer and communications technology to real world problems. The Callan Institute, which is already working with Intel, NXP and Alcatel Lucent, will prioritise working with industry to identify and answer relevant research questions in ICT technologies.

08 December 2010
The inaugural Lt. General Dermot Earley Prize for the outstanding dissertation on the Certificate in Strategic Leadership programme at NUI Maynooth has been awarded to Lt. Colonel Patrick Mc Daniel. The award is named in honour of Lt. General Dermot Earley, former Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, who died earlier this year.

25 November 2010
Planners, local and national policy makers, and researchers now have access to a free online facility from NUI Maynooth which provides a one-stop data and mapping portal to all publicly available information to assist in good planning and evidence-based decision making.  The All Island Research Observatory (AIRO) was launched today by Minister of State for Sustainable Planning, Ciaran Cuffe TD.

23 November 2010

NUI Maynooth’s newest lecture theatre, Iontas, played host to a unique event last night. World Snooker Champions, Steve Davis and Denis Taylor, replayed the famous 1985 Black Ball Final in front of a packed lecture theater.

11 November 2010

Dr Ann O’ Shea, Department of Mathematics was among five inspirational individuals that were honoured at the National Academy’s Annual Awards for Excellence in Teaching ceremony which was held in Dublin Castle earlier this week (Nov 9th).

04 November 2010

NUI Maynooth has awarded Entrance Scholarships to 22 International Scholars attending the University. International students now account for 12% of the student population on-campus, representing 25 countries such as China, Peru, Japan and the United States.

01 November 2010

A total of 100 scholarships were awarded to students at last nights Entrance Scholarship Awards ceremony in NUI Maynooth. The awards recognise the high points achieved in this year’s Leaving Certificate Exam by students attending the University.

29 October 2010

Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D., today turned the sod at a ceremony to mark the commencement of NUI Maynooth’s new €20 million library extension. Construction will commence immediately and will take 22 months to complete. The project will employ 200 construction workers at its peak, with an anticipated 160 associated jobs supported over the period of the build

20 October 2010

RIAN.ie - Ireland’s new Research Publications Portal was launched today by Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills Mary Coughlan T.D. The launch is the highlight of Ireland’s contribution to ‘International Open Access Week’. Open access is an international movement to increase the global knowledge base. Research knows no borders and it is critical for Irish research to be easily accessible and feature prominently on the global research landscape.

14 October 2010

NUI Maynooth today announced a partnership with St. Patrick’s Athletic Football Club which will provide third level scholarships to professional athletes. St. Patrick’s Athletic Under 20’s footballer Jake Carroll from Lucan has become the first player from the Club to receive a sports scholarship to undertake a three year Business Degree in Venture Management at NUI Maynooth.

7 October 2010

The ‘single most phenomenal event in the history of life on the planet’, a moment which amounts to Nature’s ‘Big Bang’, has been successfully identified for the first time in ground breaking work by a team of researchers led by NUI Maynooth’s Department of Biology.

29 Sept 2010

The new President of NUI Maynooth, Professor Tom Collins today announced that the University will introduce a bonus points scheme for Leaving Certificate Higher Level Mathematics, commencing in 2012 for a trial period of four years.

29 Sept 2010

Dr. Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Department of Mathematics, has won the sigma Rising Star award for 2010.  sigma is the Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics Support .

29 Sept 2010

On Monday 27th September, 2010 the fourth Women Mean Business Conference & Awards, designed to recognise the achievements of Ireland’s businesswomen, took place in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel, St. Stephen’s Green.

21 Sept 2010

Damini Kumar, Director of Design & Creativity at NUI Maynooth and judge in the your country your call competition said “It was a very tough decision for us judges to pick our final two winning proposals as the quality of the finalists was extremely high. The final two winners, Global Media Hub and Green Mega Data Centres, will create prosperity, jobs, innovation and will be positive to the economic growth of Ireland."

16 Sept 2010

Minister for Tourism, Sport and Culture, Mary Hanafin TD, today opened the new Iontas building at NUI Maynooth. The €15 million state-of-the-art building, has taken 15 months to build, with 150 workers employed on its construction.

Is í an tAire Turasóireachta, Spóirt agus Cultúir, Mary Hanafin TD, a d’oscail Foirgneamh nua Iontas ag Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad inniu.  Thóg sé 15 mí an foirgneamh den scoth seo ar luach €15 milliún a thógáil agus fostaíodh 150 oibrí tógála le linn na tógála. 

13 Sept 2010

As part of the conferring celebrations, Prof.   Penderecki conducted the NUI Maynooth Chamber Choir, who this year celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary, in a performance of his Benedictus (1993).

Mar chuid den cheiliúradh ag an mbronnadh féin, stiúraigh an tOllamh Penderecki Cór Aireagail Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad, atá ag ceiliúradh cothrom a mbunaithe fiche cúig bliana i mbliana, /Benedictus/ (1993) dá chuid féin. 

08 Sept 2010

A record 1700 students will graduate from NUI Maynooth’s summer conferring ceremonies over the next three days. Three new BA programmes were added; BA (Anthropology), BA (Multimedia) and BA (Politics) and also three new business degrees - BBS (Business and Management), BBS (Equine Business) and BBS (Venture Management) through the School of Business and Law.

08 Sept 2010

NUI Maynooth and Kildare County Council in partnership with industry in Kildare (Bord Na Móna, Hewlett Packard, Intel and Pfizer Ireland) and local education providers announced today, Tuesday, 7 September, that they are introducing an initiative  to promote the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

25 August 2010

The family tree of arthropods, the group which accounts for 80% of all known animals and which includes insects, crustaceans and spiders, has been radically redrawn following the publication of collaborative research between academics at NUI Maynooth, University College London, the Natural History Museum London, Dartmouth College and Montreal University. 

23 August 2010

NUI Maynooth has today reported an increase in Leaving Cert points required for entry to the majority of its courses. The points have been driven upwards by the increasing number of applications, with the University recording it’s highest ever number of applicants this year.

30 July 2010

NIRSA (National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis) at NUI Maynooth today called for the creation of an independent inquiry into the “catastrophic failure” of the planning system, which contributed towards the property bubble and financial crisis.  NIRSA said that like the Honohan and Regling & Watson reports on financial and banking regulation, an inquiry must be conducted into the formulation and implementation of planning policy, the over-zoning of land and granting of planning permission, and property tax incentives. 

29 July 2010

Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey T.D. today hosted a reception in Dublin Castle for over 250 of the world’s leading Irish Studies academics. Made up of representatives from more than 20 countries including Japan, Egypt, Brazil, India and the US, the academics are in Ireland as part of the 34th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), which is being held at NUI Maynooth. 

20 July 2010

The Governing Authority of NUI Maynooth has appointed Professor Tom Collins to the post of President of the University on an interim basis, following the resignation of Prof John Hughes.  Professor Collins will assume the post of President from Oct 1st 2010 until the date of appointment of the new President by the Governing Authority following a selection process. 

16 July 2010

NUI Maynooth has been successful in securing €10.5 million in funding for seven research programmes under cycle 5 of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI). Results were announced today by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

8 July 2010

Government drug policy is too centred on heroin abuse, fails to take account of the realities of current usage trends and needs to focus on individual user behaviour if it is to reflect the true picture and formulate meaningful responses, a leading NUI Maynooth academic said today.

23 June 2010

Minister Conor Lenihan TD today announced that Dr. Ross O’Neill, researcher at the Hamilton Institute, who is developing  a  revolutionary  treatment  for Tinnitus, is the winner of the Enterprise Ireland 'One to Watch' Award 2010. “This is an excellent example of the commercialisation of research” the Minister stated.

23 June 2010

Scientists at the Departments of Biology and Chemistry, NUI Maynooth, led by Professor Sean Doyle, in collaboration with Austrian collaborators, have discovered how a pathogenic fungus protects itself against one of the toxins it can produce to reduce our immune response and so cause infection.

22 June 2010

The Taoiseach Mr Brian Cowen T.D. announced the establishment of a new Centre for Conflict Intervention at NUI Maynooth to honour Senator Edward M Kennedy. The Taoiseach and Professor John Hughes, President of NUI Maynooth, met with Jean Kennedy Smith, Victoria Kennedy and members of the Kennedy family prior to the announcement.

14 June 2010

NUI Maynooth this weekend honoured two of its most luminous former students at the annual Alumni Ball.  Ireland’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU, Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason received the President’s Alumni Award for 2010, while Mary O’Rourke T.D. was named as the inaugural member of the “Made in Maynooth” alumni hall of fame.

01 June 2010

After more than 60,000 man hours of development and over $10 million in investment, the IT-CMF version 1.0 is now fully operational for companies to assess their IT management maturity, leading to significant savings and efficiencies, the annual European Conference of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) heard today, at NUI Maynooth, Ireland.

31st May 2010

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) admitted Dr Malachy McCann, researcher at the Chemistry Department in NUI Maynooth, as a new member today, in recognition of his academic achievement. This is the Academy’s 225th admission of new Members since it was founded in 1785.

28th May 2010

The NUI Maynooth Devils Swimming team was again at the forefront of Irish Swimming when they struck Gold at the Leinster Longcourse Swimming Championships.

27th May 2010

Twenty two migrant workers from almost as many countries graduated from the NUI Certificate Programme Community Work in a Changing Ireland.  This programme run in collaboration with the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland was the first one of its kind.

21st May 2010

The Institute of Immunology at NUI Maynooth won first prize for Postgraduate course of the year - Science and Engineering

17th May 2010

Dr Andrew Coogan, Department of Psychology and Dr Sinead Miggin, Department of Biology and the Institute of Immunology were named to-day among recipients of €8.5m for cutting-edge research projects by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD.

13th May 2010

The EU will have to take on the powers necessary to prevent a recurrence of a Greek-style crisis by structural economic reform and restoring competitiveness, according to John Bruton, former Taoiseach and EU Ambassador to the United States.

28th April 2010

Professor Barak Pearlmutter of the Department of Computer Science and the Hamilton Institute at NUI Maynooth was among researchers selected under the SFI’s Principal Investigator Programme.  Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD announced funding today of €25 million over the next five years to 27 pioneering projects.

27th April 2010

Danielle McVeigh a member of the Paddy Harrington Golf Scholarship programme at NUI Maynooth was named in the Great Britain & Ireland squad as part of the preparation for the 36th Curtis Cup match which will be played at Essex County Club, Massachusetts from June 11 to 13, 2010.

22nd April 2010

NUI Maynooth and Froebel College of Education have announced plans to establish a “Froebel Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education” at the University, with the teacher education college transferring to NUI Maynooth from September 2013. 

Thacaigh na Siúracha Doiminiceach, Iontaobhaithe Choláiste Oideachais Froebel go gníomhach leis an tionscnamh seo mar gheall ar an gcúlra eisceachtúil atá ag Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad i réimse an oideachais.   

22nd April 2010

BMS – Bespoke Mobile Suits - the business initiative of Fintan Lalor final year Venture Management student was awarded first prize of €6,000 at the annual Student Entrepreneur Competition at NUI Maynooth. “BMS” are a mobile tailoring service, providing custom-made suits for busy executives around the country. The company will be formally established in June 2010. 

13th April 2010

Dr Bernard Mahon, Cellular Immunologist and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at NUI Maynooth has been awarded the Dr. Jacques Servier Scholarship by the Institut Servier in conjunction with the Ireland Fund of France and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

25th March 2010

NUI Maynooth warmly welcomes today's publication of the report on quality assurance procedures that was prepared following an extensive review by an independent international expert review panel. The report is the first report from Institutional Review of Irish Universities, managed by the IUQB (Irish Universities Quality Board)

9th March 2010

CAO application figures received by NUI Maynooth this week show that the number of students who nominated NUI Maynooth as their first choice for university has grown by 11%. Overall applications to the third level sector have increased by 6%.

3rd March 2010

Beemune Ltd, a new company spun out from NUI Maynooth this week, has been formed to tackle one of the biggest threats to global food production: the widespread disease and premature death of the world’s bee population.

2nd March 2010

The awarding of first class honours degrees at NUI Maynooth today is fully in line with the Irish University sector.

The majority of students graduating from NUI Maynooth in 1994 were undertaking the more broadly based BA General and BSc General, which did not have honours classifications, and therefore first class honours degrees could not be awarded. The analysis recently reported in the media did not take general degrees into account and is incorrect.

19th Feb 2010

NUI Maynooth to play DCU in the The Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup, semi finals which will be held this year in NUI Maynooth.

19th Feb 2010

NUI Maynooth and Barnhall RFC have announced a strategic partnership which sees the re-branding of the club to NUIM Barnhall RFC.  This partnership will ensure the further development of the rugby academy at NUI Maynooth and the addition of 18 new rugby scholarships

10th Feb 2010

The Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup, the highlight of the Higher Education football season, was officially launched On Tuesday 9th February at the host venue NUI Maynooth.

4th Feb 2010

IVI was established in 2006 as a joint venture between Intel, The Boston Consulting Group, and the National University of Ireland Maynooth to tackle the universal problem of otherwise highly sophisticated companies 'shooting in the dark' on their IT investment decisions.

22nd Jan 2010

Ms. Anastasia Crickley, Head of the Dept of Applied Social Studies at NUI Maynooth has been elected, in New York to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for a four-year term.  Ms. Crickley was nominated for election by the Irish Government.  She will be the first Irish woman to serve on any UN Committee.

21st Jan 2010

NUI Maynooth has been informed of the decision to dissolve the National University of Ireland (NUI). The NUI's four constituent universities, NUI Maynooth, University College Dublin, University College Cork, and NUI Galway, have the same statutory status as the State's three other universities but a small number of administrative and academic functions have been carried out on their behalf by the NUI.

18th Jan 2010

Instruments capable of measuring the ability of surrounding trees andvegetation to consume carbon dioxide emissions have been located at sites across Dublin as part of a joint research initiative led by scientists from NUI Maynooth and University College Dublin.

4th Jan 2010

NUI Maynooth lecturer Seamus Taylor has been awarded a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the British Honours System.  The award has been given for his services in promoting equality in the Britain through his roles as senior official with the Commission for Racial Equality and the Crown Prosecution Service.