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DIFP IX is launched by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Tuesday, 25 November 2014On 5 November we received the first copies of DIFP IX and through the month we set in place and rolled out a major publicity campaign on the new volume.
Brian MacCraith: It’s Time to Get Serious About STEM Education in Ireland!
Wednesday, 19 November 2014Brian MacCraith is President of Dublin City University and Chair of the STEM Education Review Group (established by Minister Seán Sherlock, Minister for Science and Innovation). Professor MacCraith holds a Personal...
Jane Grimson: Women in Engineering
Monday, 17 November 2014Jane Grimson was the first woman to graduate in engineering from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She holds a Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science from the Universities of Toronto and Edinburgh,...
Time to Celebrate our Art
Sunday, 16 November 2014Art and Architecture of Ireland reviewed in the Irish Independent.
Sandra Collins: STEM and Mobility
Friday, 14 November 2014Dr Sandra Collins is the director of the Digital Repository of Ireland, the national trusted digital repository for humanities and social sciences data headquartered in the Royal Irish Academy. She is also a funded...
Donald Fitzmaurice: Time to Build Home-Grown Businesses that Can Compete Globally
Wednesday, 12 November 2014Donald Fitzmaurice is a founder and chief executive officer of Brandtone, a mobile marketing company headquartered in Ireland that conducts campaigns in emerging markets for brands, including Unilever, Syngenta,...
Alan Smeaton: Why Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is Essential for Good STEM Education
Monday, 10 November 2014As a research scientist, it is my duty to keep abreast of developments in my field and I do this by reading newspapers and books, attending and presenting at conferences and other events, and by dialogue and interaction...
DIFP involved in seminar to mark 90 years of formal Irish-American diplomatic relations
Saturday, 25 October 2014Tuesday 7 October 2014 was the 90th anniversary of the formal commencement of Irish-American diplomatic relations, marking the day in 1924 when Prof Timothy A. Smiddy presented his credentials to President Coolidge in...
Hamilton Day 2014
Thursday, 16 October 2014Commemorating the anniversary of William Rowan Hamilton’s historical discovery of the formula for quaternion algerbra, the Academy put together a programme of events on Thursday, 16 October 2014.
DIFP IX almost ready to go to print
Thursday, 25 September 2014We completed the prelims to DIFP IX, checked the index and gave the text of the volume a final once over. By the end of September DIFP IX was almost ready for print.