Author: WiSTEM

  • New Module: Feedback

    Dr Aisling McCluskey, a professor of NUI Galway, is setting up a new module aimed at 3rd and 4th year students and would like to gauge people’s interest in the module. She says: Hi, everyone! I’m writing to as many of our students as I can to gauge the level of interest there might be […]

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  • Early Career Women In Water Conference 2021

    To celebrate International Women’s Day, on Monday 8th March 2021, please join us online for the Early Career Women in Water 2021 Conference. The programme includes keynote speeches, two plenary sessions for presentations and a poster session to highlight leading work, and a conclusive discussion panel to debate gender issues in the water sector.Our inspirational, […]

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  • Webinar: Astronomy Meets Pathology

    What : Webinar – Astronomy meets pathology: An interdisciplinary effort to discover predictive biomarker signatures for immuno-oncologyWhen: Wednesday 2nd December 2020 5pm Where: Register here Presented by speakers Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, and Alexander S. Szalay, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. During the webinar, the speakers […]

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  • Speaker Series: Dr Rachel Quinlan

    When: Tuesday December 1st 2020Where: Link here Our next Speaker Series guest is Rachel Quinlan!  Rachel studied Mathematics at University College Galway in the 1990s before going to Canada to do a PhD.  She returned to Ireland in 2000 and worked as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at UCD for five years before joining […]

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  • NUIG MedTech Forum 2020

    What: MedTech Forum highlighting NUIG Campus Innovations for COVID19 Global Solutions featuring keynote lecture by Bernardo Mariano Jr, CIO, WHOWhen: Mon 23rd NovemberWhere: Zoom (see below for link) To register for the event, head to https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/nuig-medtech-forum-2020-tickets-128744637677 Schedule Section 1 Medicine – Engineering Collaboration & Innovations9:00am – Welcome Prof Derek O’Keeffe, NUIG 9:10am – NUIG MedTech […]

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  • 3D bioprinting with single cell precision for the construction of tissue and disease models

    When: November 20th 2020, 2pmWhere: Online (register here) Summary:The progress of bioprinting technologies and applications has accelerated tremendously in recent years. However, reproducing the complexity of tissue biology, especially mimicking architecture of cellular microenvironment on an individual cell level remains a challenge. Fluicell’s microfluidics based technology enables position of individual cells in complex 2D and […]

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  • Postgraduate and Modular Places

    Minister Harris has announced funding for additional part and full times postgraduate places and modular places under the July Stimulus HE Initiatives Call across higher education institutions. Details of all the postgraduate and modular courses offered by all providers can be found in the link below.  If you are interested in applying for a course, […]

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  • Wiser Academy

    Wiser Academy have put together a series of videos on topics such as from “How to secure a grad job during COVID” to “Virtual Assessment Centres” and “What to expect from a career in tech”, and they have given us FREE access to them. see links below!  Webinar episodes: How grads can secure a job during COVID-19: […]

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  • Irish Scientists Have Talent

     BT Young Scientist are running an exciting all-island competition called Irish Scientists Have Talent, to reach and discover new special acts entertainers for the BTYSTE virtual stage in January. This presents an opportunity for scientific entertainers and educators across the island of Ireland to exhibit their pre-recorded show on the BTYSTE virtual stage every day of […]

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  • McAfee Scholarship

    McAfee Ireland is continuing their Women in Technology Scholarship for the fifth year running. This is for females who are in first year of a STEM course. Through this program McAfee hopes to increase awareness and encourage a new generation of high-achieving women to take up the challenge of a career in Technology. Applications are […]

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