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What’s On , of University National in 2009/10 Welcome Date: May 16 - July 25, 2009 Event: ‘All Creatures’, an exhibition of animal skulls from NUI Galway Zoology collection, and drawings by local artists to NUI Galway Venue:

Date: June 3 - June 26, 2009 Established in 1845, the National University of Event: ‘Diverse Print Making’, a fine art print exhibition by third year Arts students from G.M.I.T. Cluain Mhuire Ireland, Galway has a distinguished reputation Venue: Arts Millennium Building for teaching and research. With over 160 years

Date: June 22 - June 26, 2009 experience of academic excellence, this is one of Event: She stoops to Conquer, performance by DramaSoc Ireland’s most popular universities. Venue: Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway

Date: June - August 2009 Event: International Summer Schools and English Almost 16,000 students and more than Language Courses 2,000 staff choose NUI Galway, Venue: NUI Galway www.nuigalway.ie/international_summer_school for details. with many of them travelling from all over the world to study Date: July 1 - July 4, 2009 Event: Bedbound, performance by Fregoli Theatre Company and work here. Venue: Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway

Date: July 13 - July 26, 2009 The University enjoys an Event: Galway Arts Festival enviable location on a picturesque 250 acre site One of Europe’s key cultural events and an international

celebration of the performing and visual arts. on the banks of the River Corrib, just a short

www.galwayartsfestival.com/index.php stroll from the centre of Galway city. Galway is

Venue: Venues across campus to NUI Galway NUI to Guide Guide one of Europe’s most vibrant cities, with students Date: July 23 - July 25, 2009

Event: The John McGahern International Seminar making up 20% of the population.

Venue: Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim Date: July 26 - August 1, 2009 Visitors’ NUI Galway makes an enormous contribution to Event: The John McGahern International Summer School all aspects of the City’s development, and in Venue: Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim particular, to Galway’s thriving cultural life. If

Date: August 24 - August 29, 2009 you take the opportunity to follow the walking Event: Bombshells, performance by Jasango Theatre route suggested by this guide (takes approx 1 Venue: Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway hour), you will see many examples of the Date: Sept 1 - Oct 31, 2009 Event: Multimedia Exhibition of new work by Marina Wild, University’s active Arts environment. Dagmar Drabent, Ben Geoghegan and Robin Jones Venue: Atrium of Arts Millennium Building I hope that you enjoy Date: Oct 2nd 2009 Event: NUI Galway/ Journalism Conference your visit to NUI Venue: NUI Galway Galway and I Date: Oct 2 - Oct 3, 2009 encourage you to use Event: Undergraduate Open Days Venue: NUI Galway this guide to discover some of the hidden Date: Oct 10 - Oct 30, 2009 Event: ‘Within a tree’, exhibition by the Galway Chapter treasures of our beautiful of the Irish Woodturners' Guild campus. Venue: University Art Gallery

Date: Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2009 With best wishes Event: Baboró International Arts Festival For Children www.baboro.ie Venue: Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway Dr James J. Browne Date: Feb 8 - Feb 12, 2010 President, NUI Galway Event: Múscailt 2010, annual University Arts Festival Various venues and locations across campus www.muscailt.nuigalway.ie Find out more: Key Facts about NUI Galway Date: Feb 2010 Event: NUI Galway Graduate Studies Fair • Over 2,000 international students from For anyone interested in postgraduate study www.nuigalway.ie/careers/students/pse.html over 90 countries study here Venue: Aras na MacLeinn • NUI Galway is internationally renowned

Date: April 20 - April 25, 2010 for research in a range of specialist areas Event: Cúirt International Festival of Literature including Biomedical Science, Irish Studies, www.galwayartscentre.ie/cuirt/literature.html Venue: Venues across Galway City Marine Science, Human Rights Law, Web Technology, Environmental Science and more Date: April 2010 Event: NUI Galway Undergraduate Open Day • This is Ireland’s leading university www.nuigalway.ie/openday for student volunteering with over Venue: NUI Galway 1500 registered student volunteers KEEP IN TOUCH • NUI Galway offers a unique bilingual environment where the If you are a graduate of the University, Irish language is regularly used in why not keep in touch through our Alumni Office: academic and social life CONTACT DETAILS T: +353 91 493 750 • NUI Galway has an excellent E: [email protected] National University of Ireland, Galway W: www.nuigalway.ie/alumni University Road, Galway reputation as a student-centred Tel: +353 91 524411 University, offering a student [email protected] www.nuigalway.ie experience that is second to none Nuig_foldout q8:Layout 1 20/05/2009 17:46 Page 2

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PARKING 12 PARKING CORRIB CATERING OUTLETS DISTILLERY ROAD VILLAGE ENTRANCE A Student Union Bar, serving food & drinks E Moffetts Restaurant, Orbsen Building CHILD AND FAMILY B An Bhialann Student Restaurant F Coffee on Line, IT Building RESEARCH CENTRE 13 C Java City Coffee shop G Sports Centre Café D Smokey Joe’s cafe H Friars Restaurant, Cairnes Building ING PARKING PARK E SCHOOL PARKING H P Limited parking is available to visitors. Please use blue Pay and Display spaces and display a J.E CAIRNES ST ANTHONYS ENTRANCE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS valid parking ticket. Clamping is in operation an campus. VISITOR GUIDE 1 THE QUADRANGLE 6 TWIN SPIRES SCULPTURE The Orbsen building is also the location for the Regenerative Medicine Institute, Built in 1848 the Quadrangle is the heart of the (2000) REMEDI, NUI Galway’s world-class biomedical research centre focusing on gene NEWERING011) University. It originally housed all departments of the This bronze sculpture by well-known Galway based therapy and stem cell research. In state-of-the-art facilities, researchers at REMEDI then Queen’s University. Today it is the ENGINE artist, John Behan, is located in the green adjacent work together to combine the technologies of gene therapy and adult stem cell BUILDING (2 administrative centre and home to the Geology to the Arts Millennium building. therapy with the aim of regeneration and repair of tissues. The foyer of the Orbsen Museum and the Art Gallery. Building also holds a painting by Charles Lamb (1893-1964) called the Connemara Pattern. Lamb and his contemporaries attempted to form a national identity through the depiction of rural Ireland and its culture. www.nuigalway.ie/research 2 UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY 7 ARTS MILLENNIUM BUILDING The University Art Gallery hosts a variety of visually The Arts Millennium Building is home to the College 11 stimulating exhibitions throughout the year. The of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the SPORTS CENTRE venue promotes the emerging Galway and national University’s largest College, and hosts many public Opened in September 2008, the Sports Centre is an artists as well as hosting touring exhibitions from exhibitions. See the What’s on for 2009/10 section for impressive 6,500 sq metre leisure complex equipped international embassies, cultural organisations and details of exhibitions. with the most up-to-date facilities including a 25m educational institutions. See the What’s on for 2009/10 6-lane swimming pool, an international basketball section for details of exhibitions. Contact: Deirdre arena and sports hall, 130 piece gym and high-tec Lydon on +353 91 495098 for opening times and exhibition details. 8 GALWAY YELLOW SCULPTURE climbing wall. The Sports Centre is open to the (1973) general public. Open: Mon - Fri, 7.00am - 10.00pm 3 The sculpture, Galway Yellow, has become Sat - Sun & Bank Holidays, 9.00am - 6.00pm THE JAMES MITCHELL synonymous with the University and was designed T: +353 91 570 800 www.nuigalway.ie/sport GEOLOGY MUSEUM by the renowned contemporary artist, Brian King, Established in 1852, the Geology Museum boasts for the then new Arts/Science Concourse, 12 superb, high quality collections, representing a completed in 1973. CHILD AND FAMILY significant diversity of the planet’s geology with a fine RESEARCH CENTRE (CFRC) display of fossils, minerals and rocks. The Museum is 9 The CFRC undertakes research in the area of child open to the public. Open: Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm and family care and welfare. It is internationally Closed: Sat, Sun and holidays The James Hardiman Library was named after the recognised for its expertise in the development and Contact: Lorna Larkin on +353 91 492 126 to book a visit University’s first Librarian, and boasts an extensive testing of educational models, such as youth collection of printed and electronic books, journals, mentoring that bring about improved outcomes for 4 special collections and archives including, the papers children. The Centre also has the distinction of hosting the Republic of Ireland’s MARTIN RYAN MARINE of John McGahern, the letters of George Moore, first UNESCO Chair, Professor Pat Dolan. SCIENCE INSTITUTE (MRI) and photographs and letters of Douglas Hyde. www.nuigalway.ie/childandfamilyresearch NUI Galway has a long tradition of marine science The 1990 reproduction of the Book of Kells is also research. The MRI is an international Centre of housed here. 13 Excellence for the study of marine and freshwater J.E. CAIRNES SCHOOL OF resources. NUI Galway is also the only university in The Library holds a variety of exhibitions in its foyer, throughout the year. BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS Ireland to offer an undergraduate degree in Marine See the What’s on for 2009/10 section for details of exhibitions. Opened in 2005-06, the Cairnes Building is a state- Science. The MRI Museum will be open from October 2009 and will include a fine Open: Term time of-the-art, technology-enabled building, providing a collection of preserved marine and land animals, an extensive range of Blaschka Mon - Fri, 8.30am - 10.00pm world-class physical environment for teaching and glass replicas of marine invertebrates, and some specimens that are thought to have Sat 8.30am - 5.30pm, Sun 10.00am - 5.30pm research. Located on the banks of the River Corrib, originated from Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle. There are also two portraits by Holiday periods: it has been cleverly designed to incorporate the Thomas Ryan in the foyer of the MRI, and a Liam O’Neill sea scape. Mon - Fri, 8.30am - 5.30pm original St. Anthony's Friary building. A series of connecting bridges link the old www.nuigalway.ie/mri Closed: Sat - Sun Friary and new Cairnes building in a striking combination. Of particular interest is www.library.nuigalway.ie the old Friary Chapel which has been converted into an impressive lecture theatre. 5 The Business School is well known for its research in the areas of rural and THE BANK OF IRELAND 10 economic development, innovation and structural change, and social gerontology. THEATRE THE ORBSEN BUILDING The courtyard of the Cairnes Building also boasts a sculpture by the acclaimed NUI Galway has a remarkable tradition of student The Orbsen Building is home to some of NUI Wexford artist, Michael Warren. The wooden obelisk style sculpture was erected drama. Its vibrant theatrical culture fostered the Galway’s major research centres including the in 1978 and is titled Logos 1. early talent of many well-known performers Environmental Change Institute, a www.nuigalway.ie/commerce including the Tony Award-winning actress, Siobhán multidisciplinary centre of excellence in McKenna, and the now internationally renowned environmental change research; the Energy Druid Theatre Company, which was formed on campus. Opened in July 2000, the Research Centre, leading the way in research 14 ENGINEERING BUILDING Bank of Ireland theatre is an excellent resource for drama students. Possessing into bioenergy, renewable energy resources and energy The site of the new €40 million Engineering state-of-the-art light and audio rigging, the black box space is a key centre for efficient technologies; and the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering building, this project is due for completion in 2011. innovation and much cutting edge new work is devised and produced by the Science, an interdisciplinary research centre focused on innovative therapeutic NUI Galway has always had a strong reputation in students here. Additionally the theatre hosts a range of productions and solutions to current medical challenges including cardiovascular disease, the field of Engineering and this building is set to be developmental workshops by touring theatre and dance companies throughout orthopaedics, reproductive medicine, and cancer. a flagship facility for the University. the year. See the What’s on for 2009/10 section for details of performances. www.nuigalway.ie/engineering