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May 2012

Funded Research Opportunities > Master of Business (by Research)

Closing date: Friday, 1st June, 2012

Cork Institute of Technology’s research programme includes support for investigative analysis of particular relevance to Irish and European Industry. Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to undertake research into the linkages and relationships among firms in a particular industry sector:

Sectors Suitable for Research: Agri-Food / Internationally Traded Services / Renewable Energy / Tourism

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For further details or to submit an application please contact:

Dr John Hobbs
Department of Accounting and Information Systems
School of Business
Cork Institute of Technology
Bishopstown
Cork
T: (021) 433 5149
E: john.hobbs@cit.ie

 

October 2011

Call for applications for ERASMUS MUNDUS Doctoral fellowships

Up to 10 fully funded 3-­‐year doctoral fellowships sponsored by the European Commission – open to both EU and non-EU citizens

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Research Success for CIT’s Bioinformatics’ Group

(L to R) Professor Victor Jongeel, Dr Roy Sleator and Dr Paul Walsh at the Genomics Institute of University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana. The green, yellow and red sculptures represent the resolved three dimensional structures of the ribosomes representing the three domains of life: Eukaryota, Bacteria and Achaea (a new kingdom of life defined by Carl Woose in 1977 – Woose is currently professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

 

(L to R) Professor Victor Jongeel, Dr Roy Sleator and Dr Paul Walsh at the Genomics Institute of University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana. The green, yellow and red sculptures represent the resolved three dimensional structures of the ribosomes representing the three domains of life: Eukaryota, Bacteria and Achaea (a new kingdom of life defined by Carl Woose in 1977 – Woose is currently Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

 

CIT’s Bioinformatics research group has achieved funding success with the award of a €90,000 Enterprise Ireland (EI) Commercialisation Fund grant to Dr Roy Sleator of Biological Sciences and Dr Paul Walsh from Computing. The award is to further commercialisation of their BioMapper software research tool. This adds to significant recent achievements, including:

  • An agreement with Microsoft to provide state-of-the-art cloud hosting and storage to enable BioMapper to be even more responsive.
  • An evaluation agreement from University of Chicago.
  • An agreement with Notre Dame’s Comparative Bioinformatics Group to provide T-Coffee services for multiple sequence alignment.

This adds to the strengthening of interdisciplinary research between the Departments of Computing and Biological Sciences at CIT, along with the recruitment of lecturer and researcher Aisling O’Driscoll as well as the launch of a taught MSc in Computational Biology, which had its first intake this semester.

 

CIT astronomer Dr Josh Reynolds participates in major pulsar discovery

Hubble Space Telescope Image of the Crab NebulaAn artist’s rendering of the VERITAS array detecting gamma-ray pulses from the Crab Nebula. Credit: José Francisco Salgado based on images by M. SubbaRao, S. Criswell, B. Humensky, and J.F. Salgado.

 

Astronomers at four Irish third level institutions including CIT’s Dr Josh Reynolds from the Department of Applied Physics and Instrumentation have participated in the detection of pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Crab Pulsar at energies far beyond what current theoretical models of pulsars can explain.

With energies exceeding 100 billion electron volts the surprising gamma-ray pulses were detected by the international VERITAS collaboration using an array of telescopes at the Whipple Observatory in Arizona.  Their results are published in a paper in the October 7th issue of the prestigious journal Science


The Irish scientists have been involved in the search for this pulsed emission for over two decades.  The Irish team members include Dr Josh Reynolds at Cork Institute of Technology, Dr John Quinn at University College Dublin, Dr Gary Gillanders and Dr Mark Lang at the National University of Ireland Galway, and Dr Pat Moriarty at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

The Crab pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star, the collapsed core of a massive star that exploded in a spectacular super- nova in the year 1054, leaving behind the brilliant Crab Nebula with the pulsar at its heart.  Spinning at 30 times a second the pulsar emits a rotating beam of radiation like a lighthouse beacon.  Current theoretical models of the pulsar predict that the maximum energy of pulsed gamma-rays should be about 10 billion electron volts so it was very significant to find emission with energies ten times higher.  Further observations to characterise the very high energy gamma-ray emission and new theoretical models will be required to explain the physical mechanism behind it.

The 2012 - 2013 Fulbright Awards now open for Applications

Grants/Funding for Studying, Lecturing, and Researching

■ The Fulbright Awards 2012-2013, offering monetary grants, for studying, lecturing, and researching in the USA are now open to applicants.

■ The awards are open to postgraduate, post-doctoral and professional candidates across ALL DISCIPLINES.

■ Please visit www.fulbright.ie for further information and to apply. Click here to download pdf.

■ Deadline for application is 12 midday Friday 18th November 2011.

Fulbright Roadshow

Fulbright will visit institutions around the country throughout October and November  providing information about the Fulbright Awards and general postgraduate study in the USA.
Please contact pippa.halley@fulbright.ie for information about your own institution.