NUI Galway has experienced major increases in CAO applications for science, engineering, IT and medicine courses.
Science news
Learn astronomy on your iPhone
3 July 2009
An Irish computer programmer is behind the iPhone app which uses the iPhone’s features such as GPS and tilt screen to teach you about astronomy
Pupils follow ships by satellite
23 June 2009
“Follow the Fleet” is an online project in which primary schoolchildren can follow merchant ships around the world thanks to satellite tracking.
Ireland’s first ‘app school’ opens
15 June 2009
App School is a five-day course being run by SQT Training in association with communications consultant Damien Mulley and young software developer Patrick Collison
Irish scientists get next-generation DNA analysis
11 June 2009
The next generation of DNA science has arrived with the opening of the country’s first genome sequencing laboratory.
Schools in sensors competition
8 June 2009
Seven schools from the south of Ireland recently completed research projects using data logging equipment and presented them in University College Cork as part of the Sensors in Transition initiative.
Irish scientists fight cybercrime
8 June 2009
University College Dublin and Interpol, the international police organisation, have teamed up to fight cybercrime.
Students use chemistry to solve murders
8 June 2009
Sixty-four secondary school students got the opportunity to use their science skills to solve a murder and build a chemical timer as part of the 2009 Salters’ Festival of Chemistry.
Liz Bonnin presents BBC science show
5 June 2009
Irish broadcaster and scientist Liz Bonnin has been chosen to present a new science show on BBC television, “Bang Goes the Theory”
Telescopes, time travel and ETs
4 June 2009
“Exploring the Universe: A tale of telescopes, time travel and extra-terrestrials” is the title of a talk at UCD by astrophysicist Dr Andrew Newsam.