21.11.2024
On the 21st of November 2024, the National University of Ireland (NUI) awarded grants, scholarships, and prizes to 160 undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, early career, and established scholars. In total, more than €850,000 was distributed to recipients across the NUI federation. The awards ceremony took place in Croke Park from 2-3.30pm.
The NUI Awards portfolio also includes grants in aid. Among these inclusion grants, is the new NUI Denis Donoghue award, which is funded by a donation from the novelist, Emma Donoghue, in honour of her late father. This award is now in its second year.
NUI Awards are strategically important to NUI, as the NUI Strategic Plan 2023-27 has Education & Research as a core strategic pillar, and under that it aims to:
- support students to reach their potential at all levels,
- financially support ambitious research of exceptional quality and celebrate and publicise research in member institutions, and
- develop its supports for students from underrepresented communities and groups in higher education.
The NUI Awards programme provides great support to this strategic aim. In introducing the awards, NUI Chancellor, Professor Michael Murphy noted:
| NUI has been supporting students, recognising scholarly achievement, and rewarding academic distinction in higher education for over 116 years, since before the foundation of the Irish State. Clearly, the university has evolved a great deal, but it has always valued learning, both in itself and as a driver for good in our society. That is why we are immensely proud of you, the students, and scholars of today’s federation, who continue our tradition of excellence. |
This was Professor Michael Murphy’s first official event as NUI Chancellor, and it was a fantastic way to kick off his term. We were delighted to also welcome the newly appointed French Ambassador to Ireland, Her Excellency, Ms. Céline Place to the ceremony to present the awardees of the NUI-French Embassy collaboration with their awards. A wonderful day was had by all.
Thank you to the NUI staff who made this event happen.
And most importantly, huge congratulations to all this year’s award recipients.
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