This website is now defunct; it will be maintained for an indefinite time to provide some public archive a selection of the activities of the of the Science Discovery and Technological Innovation section of the Office of the Theme Leaders at Dublin City University. Some material has been moved here for more complete archiving. See [...]
By niallmcmahon
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Also posted in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, General, Media, Office of the Theme Leaders, Opinion, Projects, Quality, Sustainability
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Ferdinand, our president was quoted today as saying that the universities face a civil war over the UCD/TCD research merger. I can see it is very annoying when your so called peers are making secret pacts behind your back. At a recent talk by David O’Meara, CEO of Havok, he talked about the universities losing their [...]
During October, the Sustainability Initiative made a submission to Enterprise Ireland’s Competence Centres programme. The Competence Centres programme fits the ethic of intellectual fusion and with the ambitions of the University’s Sustainability Initiative. Importantly, we propose that the key contribution that a research performing organisation can provide to the Competence Centres is a team of [...]
The Sustainability Initiative helped to kick-start a collaboration between the DCU’s Sports Club and Dr. Davide Susta and Dr. Shane Linnane, of the School of Health and Human Performance. Dr. Susta is interested in human powered devices as a consequence of his expertise in human energy and exercise management. The aim of the study was [...]
(Updated 2009) The Sustainability Initiative jointly employed and managed a student intern from DCU’s Environmental Science undergraduate programme for six months, from March 2008 until September 2008. Dr. Anne Morrissey of Oscail and Ms. Nora Shovelin proposed the position and provided guidance during the six months. The aim of the project was to record and [...]
