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www.ucd.ie/ucdtoday SUMMER 2014 13. Political activism: social 13. Political activism: media and the Syria crisis Court ofJustice our caseintheEuropean fights Digital RightsIreland of Society: Surveillance INSIDE The books that 9. define Ireland 7. Language has a life of its own 5. Surveillance of Society Contents Features Kurdish Secular/ Moderate Jihadist Pro-Assad Surveillance of Language has a The books that Social media and 5 Society 7 life of its own 9 define Ireland 13 the Syria crisis Expertise and impact – a great combination Just as the cherry blossoms begin to carpet the grass, a quiet descends on campus as students focus on their end of semester exams. For final year students – both our own and at other universities, this study effort is combined with decisions around future careers: graduate studies or the hunt for the first real job. Addressing the issues behind these decisions, our graduate studies marketing campaign aims to explain the advantages of a taught masters from UCD. The core component is “expertise”. You learn from the expert in order to become one yourself. EILIS O’BRIEN The message is strong, consistent and credible. Director of Communication This year we feature Professor Alan Renwick, expert in agricultural economics, Dr Madeleine Lowery, expert in biomedical engineering and Dr TJ McIntyre, expert in Data Protection and IT law. In each case, their work is having an impact on society, whether on the globalisation of the food chain, on interventions in relation to brain function or on taking legal action to protect online privacy. Research-informed teaching is a very attractive attribute for prospective graduate students. It is seen by them as a measure to discern quality. The question “do you want to learn from those who write the books or those who recommend a reading list?” prompts a similar reaction. Good marketing campaigns should always be contemporary and topical. TJ McIntyre’s story was such that we had to record two versions of the radio ad while waiting for the verdict of the European Court of Justice on the case taken by TJ on behalf of Digital Rights Ireland over the Government’s retention of internet and phone records for 2 years for the entire population. And, given the Court found in his favour, it would be fair to say that more than our students could learn a great deal from TJ’s expertise. You can read more about TJ and this case on page five. The campaign can be seen on the homepage until early June, as well as on the graduate studies page. UCD thanks... Produced by: Eilis O’Brien, Lisa Flannery, Dominic Martella Design: Loman Cusack Design Contributors: Suzanne Bailey, Marie Boran, Rose Cotter, Pádraig Print: Fine Print Cunningham, Elaine Cregg, Jo Day, Damien Dempsey, Deborah Dignam, Kevin Doherty, Maureen Doyle, David Durnin, Georgina Dwyer, Desmond Thanks to: Diarmaid Ferriter, Pat Guiry, Ann Lavan, Damien McLoughlin, Diane Earley, Bryan Fanning, Evelyn Flanagan, Bairbre Fleming, Andrew Fogarty, Sonnenwald, Regina Ui Chollatain Brid Foley, Karen Griffin, Vincent Hoban, Olivia Jackman, Aoife Joyce, In the compilation of this publication, every care has been taken to ensure Olive Keogh, Sinead Kelly, Tamara Lewis, Claire Mac Evilly, Peter McGuire, accuracy. Any errors or omissions should be brought to the attention of UCD Gerardine Meaney, Lynda Mulvin, Phyllis Murphy, Clár Ní Bhuachalla, University Relations ([email protected]). We also welcome your suggestions Wolfgang Marx, Juno McEnroe, TJ McIntyre, Carmel Mooney, Ailbhe for articles in future editions. Ní Chonghaile, Brian Nolan, Valerie Norton, Eilis O’Brien, Rosalind Pan, Siofra Pierse, Elaine Quinn, Bernadette Rafter, Vera Regan, Eugene Roche, This publication is also available online at www.ucd.ie/ucdtoday Grainne Rothery, Mark Simpson, Craig Slattery, Cathy Timlin, Ben Tonra, Cover image: An illustration to represent web surveillance; Elizabeth Varley, Aoife Whelan, Micéal Whelan, Orla Wrynn taken from the UCD 2014 Graduate Studies marketing campaign. Please Recycle For more see: http://www.ucd.ie/graduatestudies/?int=law . News Institute of Chemistry of Ireland. The award is Boyle Higgins in recognition of his outstanding and internationally recognised research contribution to the advancement of chemistry. The Award, Gold Medal founded in 1985 in order to encourage the advancement of Chemistry in Ireland, is for research work carried out in the areas of Pure for Professor Chemistry, Applied and Industrial Chemistry or Chemical Education. Professor Guiry and his Pat Guiry group develop new catalysts and synthetic methodologies to prepare biologically Professor Pat Guiry, Head of School of interesting compounds. The group has Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been supervised 36 PhDs to date and has 123 awarded the Boyle-Higgins Gold Medal of the publications, including 12 book chapters. Albie Sachs pictured with the UCD Ulysses Medal, which he was recently awarded in recognition of his global contribution to human rights UCD Ulysses Medal awarded to Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid campaigner and former judge of the first constitutional court in South Africa, Albie Sachs, was awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal in March. The award, which is the highest honour that the university can bestow, recognises his global contribution to human rights. The UCD Ulysses Medal is awarded to those whose work has made an outstanding global contribution. The Medal was inaugurated as part of UCD’s sesquicentennial celebrations in 2004 and celebrates the creative brilliance of our alumnus James Joyce. In 1988, South African security agents targeted Sachs in a car bomb in Mozambique. He lost his right arm and was blinded in his left eye. He survived and saw apartheid end. After recuperating in the UK, Sachs returned to South Africa and played a central role in Professor Mary Daly, who was recently elected the 55th president of the Royal Irish Academy drafting its democratic constitution. In 1994, Nelson Mandela appointed him a judge in the new constitutional court where he made Professor Mary E. Daly elected several landmark rulings. “With this medal we honour those whose President of Royal Irish Academy work has made an outstanding global contribution,” said UCD Professor Imelda The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) elected Professor Mary E. Daly the 55th president of Maher, Sutherland Chair in European Law, Ireland’s leading academic institution, with her three-year post beginning in March. who delivered the official citation for the award. Professor Daly, School of History and Over the course of her distinguished career, At the event, Albie Sachs spoke about the Archives, is one of Ireland’s most prominent Professor Daly has researched widely and design of the Constitutional Court of South senior historians and is a member of the published prolifically, notably: Dublin, the Africa. He outlined how the building has come government’s Expert Advisory Group on Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic to symbolise the new constitutional Commemorations. She served for seven years History, 1860-1914 (1984); Women and Work in democracy in South Africa. It is situated as Principal of UCD College of Arts and Celtic Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population where an old fort prison once stood, and acts Studies and has also held visiting positions at Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 to remove the negativity of the area and to Harvard University and Boston College. She has (2006); and, with Theo Hoppen, Gladstone: replace it with a positive symbol of South served on the National Archives Advisory Council Ireland and Beyond (2011). Africa’s future. and the Irish Manuscripts Commission. From Professor Daly said that she was looking “This you did in the dark days of apartheid 2000 to 2004 Professor Daly was Secretary of forward to taking up her new role in the Academy, when you were a solder for liberation – as the RIA and vice-chair of the Academy’s Working “It is a place of great ideas and energy”. your father had wished for you as a small Group on Higher Education. Others who have held the position of child, when recovering from a botched but Professor Daly was involved in the President of the Royal Irish Academy include: devastating car bomb, when whistling in commemoration of the sesquicentenary of the Eoin MacNeill (1940-3), T.K. Whittaker (1985-7) solitary confinement and hearing your tune great famine 1995-97, and with Dr Margaret and James Dooge (1987-90). completed for you by another prisoner O’Callaghan she directed a research project on UCD Professor Imelda Maher, who holds the elsewhere within those prison walls. You did the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Rising, resulting Sutherland Chair in European Law at UCD not lose sight of the promise of law, and, now in the publication of a major edited work: 1916 Sutherland School of Law, was elected as the with creative brilliance have given expression in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising Royal Irish Academy’s Honorary Secretary to that through the constitution, the court and (2007). (Humanities and Social Sciences). its building,” she said. 3 | Summer 2014 News Attending the launch of the UCD Lyons Dairy Research and Education Facility in March, (l-r): Dr Finbar Mulligan, School of Veterinary Medicine; Charles Gallagher, Irish Holstein Friesian Association; Dr Karina Pierce, School of Agriculture & Food Science; Pat Ryan, Glanbia; Edmund Harty, Dairymaster; Prof. Orla Feely, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact; Prof. Michael Monaghan, Principal, College of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine; Pat Mulvehill, Munster Cattle Breeding Group; Brendan Scanlon, Progressive Genetics; Morgan Sheehy, Devenish Nutrition and Denis Herlihy, Glanbia Over €2 million investment into UCD’s Lyons Research Farm UCD is constructing a new Dairy Research and Education Facility at Lyons research farm to support research programmes in dairy production including genetics, nutrition and herd health management.