‘Investing in Science 2012’ foremost European investment competition to take place in Dublin in July - NDRC.  Click here for more details.

Dr. Jan-Henning Dirks, an IRCSET Empower award holder since 2010, has been awarded the 2011 Paul Roell medal for his work.  More info. can be found here.  Congratulations Dr. Dirks!

Have you ever been hacked? Were you able to report it to the cyber police? Keyun Ruan, an IRCSET funded PhD student at UCD, is researching the emerging area of Cloud Forensics. In this TEDx talk recorded in Dublin’s Science Gallery, she discusses Cloud Crime, Cloud Security and Cloud Computing and asks how digital investigations might be carried out in the Cloud Computing environment.  Click here to view her presentation.

2012 Intel Scholarships - In 2012, Intel Ireland is offering a minimum of 14 scholarships through the IRCSET’s Enterprise Partnership Scheme to suitable candidates in the Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Computer Sciences.  Intel is also offering 3/14 scholarships in partnership with Tyndall National Institute in a selection of discipline areas.

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IRCSET funded postdoc Kim Debacker and postgrad Aisling Frizzell, both researchers at National University of Ireland Galway have been working within a team who made a significant scientific discovery in the fight against Huntington's disease. The novel findings are published 21 February in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology (click here)

The Irish National Platform for Biodiversity Research is a forum for scientists, policy makers and other interested stakeholders involved in the field of biodiversity research. The platform is run under the auspices of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency and administered by a secretariat (BEC Consultants Ltd). It forms part of a wider network of biodiversity platforms across Europe that link into European initiatives through the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS).

The 9th Marine Biological Association Postgraduate Conference: 21 - 24 May 2012, University College Cork. 

INSPIRE Fellow brings International Biodiversity Experts to Ireland
Anne Oxbrough, INSPIRE Fellow, is co-organising the Second International Conference on Biodiversity in Forest Ecosystems and Landscapes, to be held at University College Cork in August 2012.  For more information, click here. 

ICGEE Research Collaboration (ResCo) Programme now launched.  Details can be found here.

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