Lucent Science Teacher Initiative (LSTI) Summer School
The second Lucent Science Teacher Initiative (LSTI) Summer School was held in UL recently and was attended by 20 teachers from 14 schools in Munster, Galway and Kilkenny. These teachers will play a major role in the training of student teachers of science during their placement in schools for teaching practice.
Among those taking part were (photographed from l. to r.) Liam O'Mahony, Castletroy College; Anne Lernihan, John the Baptist Community College Croom; Roisin Moore, Castletroy College; Dr George McClelland, Head Dept of Physics, UL; Frances Shiely, Vocational School, Croom and Tommy Devine, Scoil Mhuire & Ide, Newcastlewest.
UL Announcement of Molex Chair
Professor Brian Fitzgerald
In October 2000, the Molex Corporation announced the establishment of the Frederick A Krehbiel ll Chair in Innovation in Global Business and Technology at the University of Limerick. The Chair was established to recognise the lifetime career and achievements of Mr Frederick A Krehbiel ll whose pioneering work in developing the global business activities of the Molex Corporation have made a significant contribution to business innovation and technology on a global scale. His 35 years of enormous and positive contribution to Molex, along with his many other business and philanthropic activities will be commemorated in perpetuity through the endowment of the Chair.
The Chair was established at the University of Limerick as the University is a recognised innovator in the fields of higher education and research and has pioneered a range of educational developments. The Chair will be associated with the College of Informatics and Electronics, which was founded in 1994 to bring together the elements within the University of Limerick related to the Information Age such as communications, networks, circuit design, sensors, reliability, software and interactive design. The research endeavour related to the Frederick A Krehbiel ll Chair in Innovation in Global Business and Technology will be conducted in an interdisciplinary environment combining aspects of multi media, knowledge management and interactive design with global technology networks.
Professor
Brian Fitzgerald was appointed to the Chair and took up this new position
at the University in March 2002.
Prior to coming to the University of Limerick, he was Statutory Lecturer
in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems at University
College, Cork and also held positions as Visiting Professor at Northern
Illinois University in the United States and the University of Gothenburg
in Sweden. He has a Ph.D. from the University of London and is Associate
Editor for The Information Systems Journal and Database, two leading international
journals in the Information Systems field. His publications include 5
books and more than 50 papers, published in many of the premier international
conferences and journals. Prior to taking up an academic position, Professor
Fitzgerald spent almost 15 years in industry working on information systems
development with companies in Ireland, Belgium and Germany.
Royal
Society of Chemistry
Teaching Award
Dr Peter Childs
Congratulations to Dr Peter Childs, Dept of Chemical & Environmental Sciences who has recently been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Teaching Award 2002-2003 in recognition of a lifetime devoted to chemical education during which he has influenced not only students but a large number of teachers with his energy, enthusiasm and dedication.
The citation goes on to say that his contribution has been prodigious. Whilst teaching at the University of Limerick he has also worked at the Director of the Schools Information Centre on the Irish Chemical Industry and, for twenty years, served as Editor of Chemistry in Action with three editions each year. Central to Peter's work has been the recognition that the provision of high quality materials, which stimulate and interest both students and teachers, encourages able, enthusiastic students to continue to study chemistry during their higher education courses. For a number of years Peter has been a member of committees responsible for the organisation of international conferences. He has recently been appointed Chairman of the Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) Education Council.
Peter has been involved in promoting links between education and the chemical industry for more than twenty years. He has wide experience of these activities, the problems of organising and financing them, and of analysing and evaluating their aims, objectives and outcomes. Peter is one of the very best chemical educators, energetic, prolific and respected. We can learn much from him.
World Leader in Software Engineering joins UL
Minister Opens Dromroe Village
New Postgraduate Study Opportunities in Clinical Therapies
Graduates Celebrate Academic Success
Launch
of Centre for Historical Research
Japanese Visit University for International Ceramic Research Meeting
UL Announcement of Molex Chair
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