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Welcome to the newest edition of UL Links, a University of Limerick publication highlighting some of the best stories and features from our campus community.

When the new position of Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Engagement (VPAASE) at the University of Limerick was offered to Kerstin Mey, she says that she was “hugely excited and eager to start” her UL journey. She talks to UL Links on transforming education.

Research is at the very core of everything Norelee Kennedy does. It is in her fibre, her very being. After accepting the role as the new Vice-President for Research (VPR) at University of Limerick in July, she promptly took a four-month period of research leave before starting in the job. She talks to UL Links about her new role going forward.

A specially designed International PhD at University of Limerick will help transform the way teaching and administration at Algerian universities is carried out. Dr Mairead Moriarty, Assistant Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Professor Tewfik Soulimane, an Algerian national who is the head of chemical sciences at Bernal Institute speaks to UL Links.

UL researchers have made major discoveries to affect global energy consumption. Professor Michael Zaworotko, Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering, talks about the ‘secret sauce’

AT just 20, Ciara Neville has the world at her feet, literally, for this rising athletics star has goals and ambitions that will take her to international stages and beyond. She talks to UL Links on her hopes for 2020

Profile: Dr Helen Raftery CEO of Junior Achievement Ireland and a UL graduate of the class of ‘91 where she gained her degree in English, education and physical education.

UL graduate Jonathan O'Toole has been part of the team at Elvie, a UK company developing innovative products for women including the world's first silent breast pump.

Few of the billions of coffee drinkers around the world would ever consider the science behind the drink. But researchers at University of Limerick have shown that mathematical models could help to brew the perfect cup of coffee.

Sitting in between the two worlds of traditional and contemporary, IN LiMBO takes a journey where few have gone within Irish step dancing, but who is the performer behind the dance.

With 107 countries represented in the University of Limerick student body during the last academic year, the campus community and student experience is enriched by preserving, respecting, and encouraging cultural diversity.

From summers in India, to growing up in St Louis Zohra Coday’s love of Irish music spans continents and she talks to UL Links about her time her as an international student.