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Welcome to issue 29 of The Ulster Graduate. I do hope University News that you find it of interest. 1,500 £ Our new website Ulster Alumni Online, which has been University News 02 designed to enable our graduates to keep in touch with International News 08 the University and each other, has proved very popular. Since its launch this April over 300 graduates a month have Innovation and Enterprise registered. The site enables graduates to find out about, and book for, forthcoming events and reunions, find old friends using the alumni directory and keep up to date Innovation Vouchers Scheme 10 with the latest news - http://alumni.ulster.ac.uk The World at their Überfeet 10 interest-free Recognition for Social Enterprise Support 11 Our most recent alumni, who graduated in June and July this year, join a community of over 130,000 alumni around Development and Alumni Relations the world. The Alumni Relations Office is here to help all our graduates maintain links throughout the years after graduation by providing The Ulster Graduate, Ulster Alumni Alumni Fund 12 Online and other services. Degenhardt Awards 13 Convocation Student of the Year Award 13 As we announced in the last issue, we are currently overdraft reviewing The Ulster Graduate, and would really welcome your input. Our online survey can be found Alumni Events and Reunions at http://alumni.ulster.ac.uk See page 2 for more information. Launches of University History 14 Bangladesh Meeting 14 As a new academic year begins we invite those of Magee Reunion 1986-1989 15 you considering postgraduate study to visit our online prospectus. Information on some of the postgraduate Harlem Globetrotters 15 opportunities on offer is on page 4. Alumni Golf Challenge 16 Coleraine Reunion 1980-1984 16 Finally, as always, we look forward to hearing your views and what you are doing now. People

Best wishes Class Notes 17 Making a Success out of Drama 22 Hitting New Depths - Anne Corscadden-Knox 23 Published by The Alumni Relations Office, The University of Ulster, 25 Years in Child Protection - Karen Flanagan 24 Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, BT37 0QB. Evanna Fitzgerald 25 Obituaries - Prof JL McCracken and Prof Bill Clarke 26 Tel: 08 700 400 700 (Switchboard), or Mitchell Scholars 28 028 9036 8350 (Direct Line), Fax: 028 9036 6085, Email: [email protected] Arts Web: http://alumni.ulster.ac.uk

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Celebrating Business Enterprise

“Don’t lose courage! Business success the confidence to back yourself - and win.” is about determination; taking knocks and keeping going.” In a talk peppered with examples from his own successful business career, Dr That was the inspirational message Quinn shared with his audience six key delivered by distinguished businessman characteristics of successful and eminent GAA figure Dr Peter Quinn at business people. the ‘Celebrating Business Enterprise’ event Dr Peter Quinn hosted by the University in June 2008. Dr “In business, things will go wrong. Risk Quinn was awarded an honorary doctorate and pressure are inherent in business and for Ireland and its people in the fast- by the University in 2004. management,” said Dr Quinn. “Of course, evolving 21st century business world. luck happens sometimes. But you often Self-confidence and motivation were must make your own luck. Concluding, Dr Quinn told his listeners: the watchwords of his talk to an invited “Continue to dream your dreams – and audience of academic and business leaders “It is the triers who succeed: those with realise them. Don’t lose courage!” in Newry’s Canal Court Hotel. the determination to take risks and bounce back from adversity.” His lecture can be heard at “You don’t need to be born with a silver http://news.ulster.ac.uk/podcasts/ spoon in your mouth to succeed. You need He expressed enormous faith in the future PeterQuinn.mp3 Review of The Wellcome for Ulster Graduate In order for the University to ensure

that the service we are offering meets Photo: Mark Jamieson Wire-Free Health the needs of our graduates, we are undertaking a review of The Ulster Graduate over the next few months. Monitor Technology The Ulster Graduate has followed the same format for a number of years, University Goes Green World-leading medical technology sends processed signals back to and we are seeking the opinions of As part of the University’s endeavours “The project is a landmark development Belfast – currently Ireland’s only carbon developed by a University spinout the doctor. our alumni regarding a number of to lessen its impact on the for the University and provides a physical neutral printing company – we have company is set to transform the questions such as how often you would environment, a £1.2m wind turbine demonstration of the University’s been able to make the production of way doctors monitor their patients’ The company has revealed that a like to receive the magazine, the style generator has been erected at the commitment to sustainability.” the prospectus for 2009 entry carbon hearts and other vital signs. specific version of the device is now and format, which sections are the Coleraine campus on a site adjacent neutral. GPS have been working with The being developed by ST+D and clinically most popular and which are the least to the playing fields at the north-east Carbon Neutral Prospectus CarbonNeutral® Company by measuring A tiny device invented by spinout trialled in collaboration with the and what else you would like to see. side of the campus. associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, company ST+D will enable clinicians Royal Victoria Hospital in a £410,000 A questionnaire is online at http:// Another area where we are reducing reducing them at source and then to assess a patient’s condition project which has been funded alumni.ulster.ac.uk and we would be offsetting unavoidable emissions. irrespective of where they are. by the Wellcome Trust, the UK’s The wind turbine generator has been our footprint is in the production of our grateful if you could take ten minutes The ground-breaking “no wires” largest medical research charity. This supplied by German manufacturer undergraduate prospectus, which requires to complete it. As a thank-you for your technology will also help to reduce programme-related investment by the Enercon and stands 55 metres tall to the a considerable amount of paper and Peter Hough, Student Marketing time, everyone who completes the patients’ time in hospital and free up Trust is the first of its kind for a private top of its hub, with a blade radius of 24 ink, as well as the expenditure of a large Division, said: questionnaire will be entered into a metres. The campus has a large annual amount of energy resources in printing, beds more quickly. sector business in Northern Ireland. prize draw for the opportunity to win electricity bill (currently circa £600,000) binding and transportation. “GPS have a long and distinguished £100 worth of Amazon Vouchers or which is set to rise in line with current history of environmental protection and “It won’t matter whether the patient The device is the outcome of University memorabilia. is in hospital, at home recuperating - pioneering research by the principal market increases. The new turbine Despite the digital revolution and an I was very happy that they won the should reduce campus electricity costs increasing armoury of channels of contract to print the 2009 prospectus. or holidaying in, say, Spain or South investigators Professors John A number of focus groups will also Africa,” according to chief executive Anderson, Jim McLaughlin and Eric by around a quarter, and pay for itself in communication, the feedback from the I’m always conscious of the huge amount take place, to allow a more in-depth approximately five years. higher education sector is unequivocal – of materials and other resources that go Michael Caulfield. “Doctors will McAdams at the Nanotechnology analysis of what our readers would like the printed prospectus is still the preferred into it – tons of paper, gallons of ink, be able to click onto a website and Integrated Bioengineering to see in future. We hope that if you The generator will annually supply medium for promoting study opportunities megawatts of electricity and gallons of and review the state of their Centre (NIBEC) who are founders and are asked to participate in one of these approximately 2000 MWHr of electricity to potential students. We distribute 18,000 diesel for transportation. That GPS could patients’ health.” directors of ST+D. groups you will agree to take part. and result in a reduction of carbon dioxide copies directly to schools in Northern offset all of this, to leave the prospectus The breakthrough is based on a It is hoped that following the product All the results will be assessed over the emissions at local power stations of 860 Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The carbon neutral at only a small additional disposable adhesive electrode patch development phase its manufacture winter, and future issues of The Ulster tonnes. The electricity it will generate is rest are sent (sometimes worldwide) as a cost to the contract is an absolute bonus.” worn on the patient’s chest. A will take place in Belfast, leading Graduate will reflect your preferences. equivalent to that used by 425 homes. result of requests, or are made available to small electronic unit with wireless to new jobs at the award-winning This is your opportunity to have your the public via other means. For further information visit technology is attached which Northern Ireland firm. say, so do please let us have your views. Frank Liddle, Deputy Director of Physical http://prospectus.ulster.ac.uk/ Resources, said: Working with GPS Colour Graphics in www.carbonneutral.com

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more service-oriented. Employment opportunities for course Textile Art. They will be a reminder of graduates are immense.” Speir’s contribution to the evolution of embroidery, in education and through On Course PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimate that up to 5,000 jobs in her own work as an artist. the sector could become available. Ulster finance sector expert Professor Philip Hamill said: The University is constantly updating the provision of Born in East Anglia in 1915, Lilla Speir courses to reflect the needs of employers, students and came to Northern Ireland in 1968 “In order to build a significant and sustainable financial services society. In order to meet the demands of today’s students with her husband David when he was sector in the North, talented graduates from a range of disciplines delivery can be part-time, full-time or by e-learning. Here appointed Director of Studies, Fine Art at need to be given the skills to migrate into the sector. The MSc we focus on just a few of our recent developments in the then Ulster Polytechnic. She set up a Financial Services meets the needs of employers, the aspirations postgraduate provision. degree course in embroidery, from which of graduates and has the potential to significantly contribute to hundreds of students benefited. the North’s transition to a private sector-dominated economy by Physical Activity and Population Health developing highly paid career paths in the financial services sector.” The annual award, which has been

With the increasing recognition that regular physical activity is established by David Speir, is open Journalism breaks new ground essential to lifelong health and wellbeing, the School of Sports to final year students of Textile Art Studies has introduced a Masters degree in Physical Activity and studying the BA Hons Fine and Applied Our MA in Journalism, offered full-time at Coleraine, has Population Health. The course has the support of the Health Art courses at Ulster. It enables the become the first postgraduate course to achieve dual industry University to use the £800 prize money Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland (HPA). accreditation for print, TV, interactive media and radio. The to purchase the winning submission course has reached top international standards in educating annually from the student artist who The full and part-time programme commences at Jordanstown postgraduates who can write for print and then seamlessly produces it. this year. With modules covering issues from leadership and convert the story into a TV item. These skills are in very strong management in promoting public health to the psychology of demand as newspapers convert into web broadcasters and Sharon’s submission evolved from her physical activity, and exercise and nutrition, course director Dr television stations put more emphasis on their websites. Gareth Davison says the new postgraduate opportunity offers Lilla Speir Award interest in toys and the friendships children develop with them from much more than any other course in its field: The accreditation was awarded by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council which represents the BBC, ITN and Sky News, A new artwork prize won by graduate Sharon’s winning piece, entitled childhood: www.innocentchaos.co.uk “The important thing is to begin making people aware of the and the National Council for the Training of Journalists. The latter Sharon Hay from Ballyclare establishes “Innocent Chaos”, has been bought by She was presented with the award by health benefits of taking part in even a small amount of physical represents newspapers like The Guardian, The Mirror and those a lasting tangible link between the the University as an educational resource, Mrs Janet Ledsham, former Lecturer activity. What this new programme will do is provide people with in Northern Ireland like the Belfast Telegraph, The Irish News and University and Lilla Speir, a pioneer of as will all future winning submissions in Textile Art, Fine and Applied Art at expert knowledge to become exercise and health promotion Johnston Press. our excellence in textile art. for the Lilla Speir Award in Embroidered the University. officers in local communities, adding continued professionalism to these positions.” A critical factor amongst the 40 criteria assessed by the separate inspection panels was that the well-established course had the UK’s Stephen Wilson, Senior Manager, Planning and Coordination for best employment rate. All of our graduates from the previous year the HPA said: were working as reporters after completing the intensive course. Ulster Peace and Reconciliation

“This is the first course of its kind in Northern Ireland and we The quality of the students’ work was also a factor, with Ulster are delighted to have been involved in advising on the content. students achieving or being short-listed for eight national and Experts Brief Burundi President The need for such a course reflects the increasing recognition international awards in the past three years. Course director Colm that physical activity is so important for our overall health and Murphy said: “Northern Ireland attracted journalists internationally The University welcomed expertise in helping us emerge from our wellbeing.” for negative reasons in the past. But we are able to get them to the President of Burundi, His conflicted past. Education is a key priority come now for the best education available internationally. With Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza, to the to help ease tensions among our people; Financial Services this accreditation we are getting four applications for each place Jordanstown campus in April 2008. education is the basis for reconciliation in and they are coming from every continent”. Burundi. Education will help our people The Ulster Business School’s new PGDip/MSc Financial Services Burundi is a Central African country become world citizens.” programme will help Northern Ireland business seize the For more information on our full range of postgraduate with a troubled history of conflict and enormous opportunities opening up in the financial services sector programmes see http://prospectus.ulster.ac.uk/ civil strife. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Richard following the Cowen/Robinson announcement on Barnett, said that he hoped that this the potential relocation of financial The President, who was on a three-day meeting would mark the beginning of a services from the Republic of Ireland. The full-time programme, fact-finding visit to Northern Ireland, long and fruitful relationship between the offered at the Coleraine campus, is designed to meet the needs came to Jordanstown accompanied by University and Burundi. of the wholesale financial services sector where knowledge of his Foreign Minister and entourage to financial regulation, securities and their derivatives, and fund discuss educational and development The group heard presentations on management is crucial to business performance. issues around peace, reconciliation and the University’s work in the fields of reconstruction with University academic peace, reconciliation and international Course director Dr Ken Dyson said: experts and distinguished guest. development from Professor Gillian Robinson and Dr Brandon Hamber of “Financial services are an increasingly significant economic growth “Northern Ireland and Burundi have the International Conflict Research opportunity for Northern Ireland. Financial services make a major gone through many crises in the past,” Institute, and Professor Alan Smith, of the His Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza, contribution to the Gross Domestic Product of both Southern the President said. “We seek your UnIversity’s UNESCO Centre. President of Burundi. Ireland and the UK (7% and 9.4% in 2006, respectively) and this figure is expected to grow rapidly as both economies become

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Barbara’s Vision for Cataract The EU Treatment and the Honorary Graduates Research by Professor Barbara Pierscionek could lead to a major Summer 2008 breakthrough in the treatment of NI Peace cataracts - a leading cause of sight Colm Tóibin problems and one of the most Doctor of Letters common forms of blindness in Process the world. The Jordanstown campus played host to a high-profile international A cataract is a clouding of the lens of the conference on the role of the EU eye but an understanding of the structural in fostering the Northern Ireland changes in the lens that lead to cataract peace process in April 2008. formation has eluded scientists for centuries. While cataracts can be surgically Attended by the then First and removed, access to this simple operation Professor Barbara Pierscionek. Deputy First Minister, as well as remains a difficulty in the developing Republic of Ireland Finance Minister world. An alternative to surgery has never optics and mechanics can be measured on Noel Ahern, former EU Commissioner Frank Boyd Harry Gregg Lord Ballyedmond Prof. Dr-Ing Johannes been found. the whole lens, the biochemistry requires Doctor of the University Doctor of the University Doctor of Science Steinbrunn Monika Wulf-Mathies and former breaking the lens up to reach the proteins Doctor of Science EC Secretary General Carlo Trojan, Professor Pierscionek, Professor of within, making it impossible to see how the all-day event paid tribute to the Optometry and Vision Science, explains the proteins are arranged in the lens European Union for its support for that this is largely because the changes in before and after cataract formation.” the peace process. the proteins within the lens that lead to cataract formation are unknown, although Professor Pierscionek, who is based In a ‘Recognition Ceremony’, timed recent advances in nanotechnology could in our Biomedical Sciences Research to coincide with events to mark the change this. Institute, in collaboration with two significant political achievements in colleagues from the University of Texas at Northern Ireland over the past decade, “Up until now it has been difficult to Arlington, Professor Wei Chen who is an former EC officials were thanked for bring the structural and functional aspects expert nanotechnologist, and Professor their role in the EU Peace Programme of the lens together because while the Ron Schachar, an ophthalmologist and His Excellency Dame Nuala O’Loan Reverend Harold Good Sir Nigel Hamilton and the International Fund for Mr James Wright Doctor of Laws Doctor of the University Doctor of the University physicist, is studying the potential of Ireland, representing a combined EU Doctor of the University applying nanotechnology to the lens. contribution of over 1 billion Euros for Meeting Seating Needs of Disabled Adults peace and reconciliation in the region.

An innovative multi-adjustable “We took the product to the event to The event was organised by the seating system for disabled adults open up dialogue with a number of European Economic and Social developed by occupational therapy national manufacturers and distributors Committee (EESC), which acts as a researchers at the University’s Health and have been completely overwhelmed bridge between organised civil society and Rehabilitation Sciences Research by the response, particularly by a number and the EU Institutions. Institute was enthusiastically received of large UK based companies both at its launch at the Naidex healthcare during the exhibition and since we Father Alex Reid Bill McGinnis Justice Albie Sachs Dr Pierre Joannon tradeshow in Birmingham. returned home. Doctor of the University Doctor of the University Doctor of Laws Doctor of Letters

Lead inventor, Dr Alison Porter-Armstrong “People are delighted to see something says the research project team which new to meet the seating needs of disabled included co-inventor Dr May Stinson and people and they are particularly happy to and senior members of staff. Dr Anne Moorhead were delighted with view an innovation arising from a University- Minister Rammell was in Northern Ireland the reaction to the product, both during based research programme,” she says. Bill Rammell for a one day fact-finding visit, and took and since the exhibition. away a very positive impression of the The Easi Seating System is a modular Visit work of the University: “This is fantastic,” “We’ve spent the past ten years multi-adjustable system, which can Attending the EESC’s event were Henri Malosse the Minister said after hearing about the researching seating and pressure interface be customised to accommodate the of the EESC, Noel Ahern TD; Deputy First UK Higher Education Minister Bill activities of the recently-formed Faculty Minister Martin McGuinness; Monika Wulf- needs of disabled people and the individual seating needs of disabled Rammell visited the Belfast campus of Art, Design and the Built Environment adults. It can be adjusted to meet their Mathies; then First Minister Dr Ian Paisley; development of this product stemmed EESC Vice-President Jillian van Turnhout; in June 2008, where he received from its then Dean, Professor Alastair Adair. from the absence of an adjustable seating changing needs as they grow or if their Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Barnett a briefing on the work of the “You are clearly doing great work here.” system for disabled people which could be medical condition changes, potentially and Carlo Trojan. University from the Vice-Chancellor The Vice-Chancellor welcomes UK Higher Education changed to suit their specific requirements. providing life-long provision. Minister Bill Rammell to the Belfast campus.

6 the ulster graduate l autumn 2008 the ulster graduate l autumn 2008 7 university news university news Ulster Builds Malawi on Korean Links Links Professor Anne Moran, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, The FireSERT research centre has visited Malawi in April 2008. signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Korean Institute of The context and purpose of the Construction Materials (KICM). visit to Malawi was twofold: firstly to accompany and provide support Dr SH Kim, President of KICM, visited the America Update for the three PGCE post-primary Jordanstown campus to consolidate the students who had been selected collaboration in education and research Dr Joyce Forsythe recently returned Washington DC. This major event of to undertake their school-based between the two institutions. to the International Office after the year was attended by some 7,000 project in two schools in Zomba, three years as Director of the delegates from all over the world. It Malawi; secondly to develop FireSERT and KICM agreed to explore University’s Hong Kong Office. Her provided a unique opportunity to meet stronger, more sustainable links and assist in developing mechanisms that new remit includes America, and representatives from Ulster’s partners in with the Faculty of Education at will encourage and enhance co-operative here she writes about some key Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, America Chancellor College and to sign a work between the institutions in areas developments in the University’s and Europe as well as providing a Chinese Students Memorandum of Understanding with of mutual interest in the domain of Fire relationships with the USA which chance to meet people from countries them, based on future co-operation Safety Engineering. she had the opportunity to see at with whom we are not currently linked. and collaboration. first hand during a recent visit to It was a fast energetic week, manning Celebrate Olympics the United States. the Education Ireland exhibition stand, An integral part of the project attending seminars, consular and Over 100 Chinese students from across “The presence of so many new Chinese entailed visits to schools, some Affectionately known as ‘Ole Miss’, partner receptions, and seeing a little Northern Ireland celebrated with students here demonstrates the strong of which were part of the Zomba the University of Mississippi is one bit of Washington. All in all, one of the joy and pride as they watched the bonds that have grown between the Action Project, which had been of Ulster’s (the Faculty of Arts in networking opportunities of the year. stunning opening ceremony of the University and China,” he added. supported from the twinning of the particular) newest partners in the Beijing Olympics in August. Zomba Action Group at Coleraine US. The partnership has got off to a I also paid a visit to the University of “The University has been a home from Borough Council. very exciting start. Having successfully Richmond which sends students Students from all four of the University’s home for many of their compatriots attracted funding, the Lott Leadership to Ulster each year for their Study campuses had gathered to take part in over recent years and today we extend a During Professor Moran’s visit she Institute at Ole Miss along with Ulster Abroad experience. It was a great a special event celebrating the opening warm Ulster welcome as we share in their met with the Dean and Associate and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan opportunity to discuss new areas of of the 2008 Games. The ceremony national pride as the Olympic Games open Dean of the Faculty of Education Professor Ali Nadjai, Professor Norman Black, Pro-Vice- University joined forces to initiate a interest between our institutions and Chancellor (Research and Innovation) and Dr Kim. was displayed on a large screen in the in spectacular style in Bejing, setting the to discuss a range of issues, mainly Trent Lott scholarship programme. This expand the range of subjects open to new High Performance Centre which scene for a successful Paralympic Games, around initial teacher education facilitated travel to Africa, America student participation. has already been designated an official too, in September.” and the introduction of beginning Both institutions agreed to take steps to and Northern Ireland for six students training facility for the 2012 London teachers. The most significant develop a more dynamic programme to and one member of staff from each Finally I went to Arcadia University. Olympics and Paralympics. The University was represented at both the matters discussed were partnerships exchange researchers and encourage joint institution as the group moved between As one of our study abroad partners Olympics and Paralympics. Sports Scholar with Schools and alternative models research projects staffed by individuals the three continents to study cultural Arcadia also sends students to Ulster The students came from many diverse Melanie Nocher represented Ireland in of teacher education. Malawi is from both institutions. diversity and peace and conflict issues. each year either for one semester regions of China, some from Tsinghua the 200m backstroke in Beijing, where experiencing a very considerable or a full academic year. Arcadia University in Beijing itself, others from she won her heat and broke the Irish shortfall of teachers and the Professor Ali Nadjai, FireSERT said: The University of North Carolina at was keen to explore new subject as far afield as Hong Kong, Shenyang, record in the event. Michael McKillop, a government’s priority is to rapidly Greensboro (UNCG) is celebrating 15 areas for their students’ participation Guangzhou, Dalian and Fujian, and are staff member at the Jordanstown Sports increase the number of student “This Agreement will enable FireSERT years of International programmes and to promote Ulster as a study studying a wide range of subjects. Centre, won gold for Ireland in the 800m teachers trained to meet these staff, facilities, and equipment to and had invited its partner institutions abroad destination. at the Paralympics. demands especially in the secondary be used to support KICM’s research to attend a three day colloquium on The event featured a traditional Lion school sector. programmes supported by the Korean the Future of International Exchanges: We anticipate that the numbers of Dance to mark the occasion – the eighth government. It will also provide Issues and Changing Models. The visiting students from America will day of the eighth month is regarded by Central to all models discussed opportunities, through sabbatical discussion was most thought provoking increase in the coming year and Chinese people as being an especially was the issue of partnerships appointments, joint seminars and visits and it was a great opportunity to see, more Ulster students will take the auspicious date. with schools, a particular research for KICM staff to interact with the first hand, a campus at which Ulster opportunity to broaden their horizons interest of Professor Moran’s. It world-class FireSERT facility at Ulster. students have the opportunity to spend by spending some time studying at one Welcoming the students to the campus, was agreed that these two areas time and gain academic credits toward of our partner institutions. Provost, Professor Alan Sharp said that might form the basis for future “We also hope that through working their home degree. he was delighted to have an opportunity co-operation and assist sustainability together we will be able to attract to welcome such a large number of new of the collaborative initiative with distinguished international scientists and NAFSA, Association of International Dr Joyce Forsythe international students just as the Beijing Chancellor College. engineers to take up visiting positions at Educators, held their conference in International Officer Olympic Games begin. both institutions.”

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Scheme to build stronger links between Think NI Recognition for Social Enterprise Support businesses and knowledge providers, Innovation including the University of Ulster. Thinkni.info is a new portal providing The University has been highly Compatible with the Enterprise Ireland information about relocating back to commended in recognition of its scheme of the same name, it is hoped Vouchers Northern Ireland. If you haven’t been support for social enterprise in that this programme will lead to to Northern Ireland for a while you’ll be Northern Ireland. new business model development of surprised at the change: new buildings

Scheme innovation skills within businesses and pepper the skyline, a revitalised Belfast is The accolade was presented to the team home to a cosmopolitan multi-national There has never been an easier an increase in industry’s investment in from the University’s Office of Innovation community and everywhere across the time to do business with the technology, research and development. at the Business in the Community (BITC) region there are signs of renewal and University of Ulster. Awards in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall. progress. Economically, Northern Ireland Further details are available from has never been stronger and its people Businesses across Ireland can now the Business Liaison Team, from Tim Brundle, Director of Innovation, never more confident in their future. apply for vouchers worth £4,000 that Invest NI and via the Innovation Eddie Friel, Head of Business Liaison and can be used to access the University’s Vouchers website: Academic Enterprise and Kerry Thompson, Thinkni.info has core information on job consultancy, design expertise, market www.innovationvouchers.com opportunities, property, cultural and leisure Business Liaison Executive accepted the research and technical support. Regional Recognition Award, sponsored by Chris Clark, CEO BT Ireland; Tim Brundle; Kerry Thompson; John Heslip, CEO Business in the Community; Business Liaison Office, activities, education, and the economy. and Eddie Friel. Why not visit Thinkni.info today and see BT Ireland, under the category ‘Supporting At the end of May 2008, Invest NI tel 028 9036 8019 or email what the craic is in Northern Ireland. Economic Growth’. placement activity, research projects and empower the social economy sector and launched its Innovation Vouchers [email protected] www.thinkni.info - exciting opportunities networking events. not provide quick fixes. in Northern Ireland await you. Ulster has been working to support social enterprises for a number of years, Tim Brundle, Director of Innovation, said: “Our focus is on opportunities for offering a range of opportunities to access long term collaboration, helping social expertise from within the University, “We are delighted with this recognition of enterprises to provide a competitive, including accredited training, academic our work with social enterprises. Ulster has innovative and client-focused service, which The World at their Überfeet expertise through mentoring, student always been very conscious of the need to in turn strengthens their social impacts.” Ulster Business students from the Coleraine campus took top prize at the 2008 Student Enterprise Awards, Ireland’s most prestigious higher Blick, but don't miss it education business enterprise showcase. Belfast’s creative industries partied has been developed for a wide range of Aisling O’Neill, Lisa Donnell, Amanda in style this summer at the launch creative practitioners to get involved. Nesbitt and Ciara Jordan beat off of Blick, Belfast’s new creative hub. Blick’s hopes of bringing Belfast’s creative competition from hundreds of third level industries together got off to a great start students across Ireland with their business Blick, supported by Belfast City Council at the launch. The shared studios were proposal Überfeet, scooping the £8,000 and the Department of Enterprise, Trade packed with visitors who saw first hand prize and title of College Entrepreneurs and Investment’s Building Sustainability the variety of creative businesses located of the Year. Prosperity Programme, the University at Blick on the Malone Road including of Ulster and UnLtd brings together Catherine B Jewellery, Rachel Hutchinson Überfeet is a new product designed to creative professionals from a variety Textile Art, Magic Marker Design, Sinful help women have a comfortable journey of backgrounds through collaborative Design and Food Doodle. after wearing painful shoes. It is sold in projects and events, offering the a package comprising of a pair of light- opportunity for emerging creative talent Speaking at the launch, Blick founder weight disposable shoes with a re-usable to represent, promote and showcase Christine James, who graduated from bag to carry the work shoes in. The their work. Ulster with a BA Honours in Fashion and product is unique due to its inexpensive, Überfeet’s Ciara Jordan, Lisa Donnell and Aisling O’Neill. Textiles in 1999, said: disposable aspect. Blick aims to help small and start-up an expression of interest from firms congratulations to all concerned.” businesses within the creative industries “The public support has been amazing I Aisling said: “We were really shocked interested in commercialising their by providing encouragement, inspiration couldn’t believe that people all over when we won the award. I’d thought we product idea. Acting Director of NICENT Una McMahon- and a sense of community. Blick acts Belfast were talking about the studios. It were complete underdogs. Even when Beattie said: “This is fantastic news. This as a supportive organisation, bringing has always been my dream to create a they called out our names, we didn’t Head of Department of Business, Retail award recognises the enterprising spirit of designers, artists and film-makers space dedicated to helping small and Blick’s founder Christine James. quite believe it!” and Financial Services, Dr Barry Quinn our students here at Ulster. I hope it will together to create a stronger creative start-up creative businesses and showcasing is delighted: encourage more students to come forward network and provides more than just Ireland’s emerging talent in everything To find out more about the shared As part of their prize the Überfeet team with their ideas to us at NICENT.” affordable workspace. A programme from digital design, new media, film, art, workspace and events taking place at are taking advice from Cruickshank “Our Department puts great emphasis on of events, exhibitions, business photography, fashion and textiles and BLICK, please click on: Intellectual Property Attorneys on how developing enterprise skills and this award The Überfeet team all graduated with BSc development and networking activities everything in between”. www.blickstudios.org to move their project forward. The has been the result of a lot of hard work Hons in Business Studies with Computing Überfeet team has already received on the part of students and staff alike, at Coleraine this summer.

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programme, supported by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, involves students from across the UK travelling Richard K Degenhardt to China for one month to learn Mandarin and to develop a Alumni Fund knowledge of China’s culture and society and to visit a number of businesses. Belleek Collectors'

Sport and Exercise Sciences student Amy Davies was given a Scholarships contribution towards the cost of travelling to Spain to represent British Students in the Rugby 7s World Championships. She was Ceramic artists Ashling O’Hea and Conor McLean and the only Northern Ireland girl in the squad. Celtic scholar Colm Duffin were this year’s winners of the Richard K Degenhardt Belleek Collectors' Scholarships. The first student to benefit from a Developing World scholarship was Rahul Pandey from Kanpur in India. Rahul The Richard K Degenhardt Belleek Collectors' Scholarships worked on a placement in the Health and Rehabilitation are international scholarships of one year’s duration awarded Sciences Research Institute to further his interest in annually to two or three outstanding students from the University, engaged in study in the fields of ceramics and Celtic Dr Linda Beard with winning students Colm Duffin, Conor McLean, medical modeling using rapid prototyping technologies and Ashling O'Hea. (designing and manufacturing implants based on a patient's studies. The awards were established to enhance students’ particular anatomy). opportunities for personal as well as educational development. Colm Duffin graduated with a first-class honours degree in Irish Languages and Literature in July 2008. He planned The purpose of his visit was to get an understanding of the Dr Linda Beard, Founder and Chair of the Richard K Degenhardt to use his award to stay on Tory Island for two weeks to technology and methods used on creating medical models. He Endowment, presented the awards of £650 each to the study the grammatical structures in Donegal Irish and their received training on specific 3D imaging software and camera winning students in May 2008. uses and evolution in the 21st century as a foundation for a equipment. Rahul arrived with knowledge of engineering and proposed PhD in Irish language. rapid prototyping but no knowledge of 3D medical imaging or Ashling O’Hea is studying Fine and Applied Arts, specialising in 3D image capture. He carried out a specific project to design ceramics. She plans to use her award to take a ceramics course The scholarships are funded through the generosity of many a 3D template of the human chest. This work has helped at Alfred College in rural western New York and to fund visits individuals and groups, including Belleek Collectors world- Rahul see a medical application of engineering technology that to see other artists and businesses working in ceramics wide, international Belleek Chapters, special friends and he was not aware of and see the potential benefits this cross in America. family of Richard K Degenhardt, the Belleek Pottery and the discipline work would bring to the healthcare environment. Belleek Collectors’ International Society. Conor McLean is also studying Fine and Applied Arts, specialising in ceramics. He wished to use his award to help The awards are named in memory of the late Richard Kennedy fund a residency with Nic Collins, a full time potter living in Degenhardt who was instrumental in establishing the Belleek How to give Devon and participation in the assistantship programme at the Collectors’ International Society. The scholarships are a tribute International Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark where he will to his definitive knowledge of Belleek Parian China, which We welcome every gift, regardless of size. When put be a technical assistant for the artists-in-residence. remains renowned among collectors worldwide today. together all gifts will make a huge difference to our students now and in the future.

Rahul Pandey. You can donate by the following methods: Convocation Student As we reported in the last issue of The Ulster Graduate, By cheque - made payable to the ‘University of Ulster the University ran its first-ever telephone fundraising of the Year Award 2008 Foundation’. (USA Donors - cheques should be made payable campaign during spring 2008. Our team of students spoke to the ‘The American Friends of the University of Ulster’). The Convocation Student of the Year Award is made to a to over 700 alumni from the Jordanstown campus, over student, or group of students, who during their time at half of whom pledged to make a gift. We were delighted By credit card - donations can be made over the telephone the University has/have demonstrated significant personal with the level of support received from our graduates, by calling the Alumni Relations Office on 028 9036 8350 or achievement or made a substantial contribution to the life and will be running a further campaign at the Coleraine through our web pages at http://alumni.ulster.ac.uk of the institution, its students or the community. campus in the autumn. By Direct Debit – we can send you a form or you can Lisa Law, who graduated with a BSc Hons in Psychology at All money donated goes to the Alumni Fund, which enables download one from http://alumni.ulster.ac.uk. Just the Magee campus in July, was selected as the winner and donations from our graduates to support activities for the £10.83 a month for three years, with Gift Aid, is worth received her award at the City Hotel, Londonderry prior to benefit of our current and future students. The generosity of £500 to us. her graduation. Dr Siobhan McCann, who nominated Lisa, our alumni helps enhance the experience of students at the described her as “an inspiration to her fellow students and to University, and creates additional opportunities for them. By using Gift Aid, your gift will be increased by the Inland the staff who worked with her”. Revenue by 28p for every £1 you give. If you are a higher Lisa Law, Convocation Student of the Year, receives her award from the Benefiting Current Students Vice-Chancellor. Also pictured are members of the Convocation Executive rate taxpayer you can also claim back 20p in every £1. Despite having a major physical illness and undergoing numerous Committee and staff of the School of Psychology. This means that a donation of £100 from you is worth £128 surgical procedures during her degree programme Lisa obtained As a result of the monies donated so far we have already been to us, and if you are a higher rate tax payer only costs excellent marks and maintained her happy and optimistic This was the first study of its kind and Lisa submitted an able to help a number of students, and also to pass donations you £74.40. All you need to do is tick the Gift Aid box disposition throughout the challenges she faced. Her experience excellent dissertation which she hopes will form the basis on to the Library to purchase books, e-journals and e-books. on the Donation Form. Further details of Gift Aid are on of caring for members of her family led her to undertake for further research. At her presentation she made a moving our website. (USA Donors – Donations to the American research into student carers in the University in collaboration speech in which she thanked her family and members of staff Among those who have benefited already are three students Friends are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law). with the Science Shop and Carers Northern Ireland. who had supported her. who won places on the ‘Study China’ programme. This

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The University of Ulster: Irish Alumni Harlem Globetrotters New Year's Ulster alumni enjoyed a great Genesis and Growth performance by the Harlem Globetrotters at Belfast’s Odyssey The first history of the University will This book of essays, specially prepared Party, London Arena in May 2008, courtesy of the be published early in 2009, and Ulster to mark the 25th anniversary of the University’s three year partnership alumni are welcome to join us at book University of Ulster in 2009, will be January 2009 agreement with the Globetrotters and launches in Belfast, Dublin and London. published by Four Courts. Contributors their promoters, Knowsport. The University of Ulster: Genesis and to the copiously illustrated volume include Graduates of the University of Ulster Growth is edited by Dr Gerard O'Brien retired and serving members of the are invited to the annual Irish Alumni As the Harlem Globetrotters stars and and Professor Peter Roebuck. University, each of whom has played a New Year’s Party at the Porterhouse, rivals the Generals lined out on court for part in the evolution of the institution. Covent Garden in January 2009. The event is open to former students from their exhibition match, special guest Vice- Chancellor Professor Richard Barnett, took The Northern Ireland launch will take colleges and universities across the centre stage. He started the game while place at the University’s Belfast campus on island of Ireland. a cheerleader team from Ulster’s Magee 6 February 2009. The London launch will campus fired up the crowd. take place at the Society of Antiquaries, A free buffet will be provided, and Sports Reunion prize winners have a ball Burlington House, Piccadilly on 3 March there will be a cash bar. at the Globetrotters. The match was preceded by 2009. A venue and date for the Dublin demonstrations by eight sports outreach and Plaque 3 v 3 titles. As part of their launch are yet to be confirmed but Bring along your business card to basketball teams.The children - from eight prize, they won the chance to meet and information on all three events will appear enter our free business card draw. schools across Northern Ireland - were the play in front of their basketball heroes. on our web pages. winners of the 8th annual primary schools There is no charge to attend the event, basketball finals, held at the Jordanstown A number of alumni also enjoyed the Copies of the book, normally retailing at but advance booking is essential. campus where they contended for the shows in London, Birmingham £40.00, will be available exclusively to Professor Richard Barnett starting the game. Ulster Sports Outreach Cup, Trophy, Plate and Glasgow. alumni at the special price of £25.00 each. Further details will appear on the To place an advance order, please contact website shortly: Illustration of Aberfoyle House from ‘The University of the Alumni Relations Office on 028 9036 http://alumni.ulster.ac.uk Rathlin Island June 2008 Ulster: Genesis and Growth’. 8350 or email [email protected]

Celebrating General meeting and reunion 2008 Environmental of University of Ulster Alumni Health Alumni -19 June 2009 Association, Bangladesh Chapter The University of Ulster (and its The University of Ulster Alumni Univerity. Ms Catriona McHugh (an predecessor institutions – Ulster Association, Bangladesh Chapter, Ulster graduate) of HELM Corporation Eighteen alumni and their guests enjoyed Polytechnic, Ulster College, Belfast was established in November was also present. A good number of an afternoon boat trip to Rathlin Island, College of Technology) has provided 2002. Since then the association association members took part in the on what must have been one of the environmental health education and has arranged several meetings and meeting and reunion. sunniest days of the year. training for more than 50 years. To get-togethers including a day-long recognise this, and to celebrate seminar on sustainability of Financial Mr Ekram Ahmed, Secretary, University the success of the environmental Management Reform in Bangladesh. of Ulster Alumni Association, Bangladesh Information on all our health alumni (Diplomates, BSc and Chapter, made the welcome address. Magee Reunion The proposed programme is: MSc graduates, doctorates), the A general meeting and reunion of Ulster Distinguished guests made short events and reunions, University has teamed up with the NI Alumni Association members was held but valuable speeches. All speakers Classes of 1986 -1989 3.00pm Tea/Coffee in Minor Hall both past and future, Region of the Chartered Institute of on 22 May 2008 at the Auditor General’s appreciated the MA course arranged 3.30pm Presentation about recent and in Northern Ireland or Environmental Health to organise a office. Mr M Hafiz Uddin Khan, former at the University of Ulster and skill Would you like to revisit the future developments at Magee day of professional and social events Advisor to the Caretaker Government, enhancement of the officers after Magee campus and see your 4.30pm Campus tour elsewhere, is listed on – 19 June 2009. If you are an Ulster was the Chief Guest. Mr Ahmed Ataul attending the course. former classmates? 7.00pm Pre-dinner drinks http://alumni.ulster. Environmental Health alumna/us Hakeem, Controller and Auditor General 7.30pm 3 Course Dinner in Great Hall please put this event in your diary and of Bangladesh, and Dr Mohammad Following a presentation of gifts to the Former students of Magee who ac.uk/or from the Alumni tell others about it. Further details will Tareque, Secretary, Finance Division, were Chief Guest and the Guests of Honour graduated between 1986 and 1989 Tickets are £30 per person Relations Office on be published in the next issue of The present as Guests of Honour. Professor the event finished with a dinner. are warmly invited to a reunion to take (including wine) for the reunion. This (028) 9036 8350 e-mail Ulster Graduate and at Siddique Osmani, Dr Nazmul H Siddiqui place on Saturday 25 April 2009 at the is a great opportunity to revisit old http://alumni.ulster.ac.uk and Dr Tom Lunney represented the Mr Ekram Ahmed Magee campus. memories and create new ones. [email protected]

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Dr Wael Kafienah been a Lecturer in Stem Cell Biology at the In 2003 he became Vice President of Fifth University BSc Biomedical Sciences 1994 University of Bristol. Motorola Asia Pacific and then joined computing giant Apple as China Country Home Page: General Manager from 2006 until 2008 of Ulster http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cellmolmed/ when he left to take up his current role. staff/kafienah.html Alumni Golf Peng says that the secrets to his success are simple: “focus” and “more is less”. He firmly believes that these two simple Challenge Global Success for work philosophies are the key to achieving Informatics Graduate your goals. The fifth Alumni Golf Challenge took place at Galgorm Castle on 19 June 2008. With over 40 students, staff and New Alumni graduates taking part the competition Dr Kafienah (right) receives his award from was keen, and the afternoon was Dr Andrew Bamji, BSR President. Association President enjoyed by all. The winners were as and Vice-President follows: The winning team were presented with their prize by Phil Carson, Services Development Manager (far right). Dr Wael Kafienah has been awarded the prestigious Garrod Prize 2008 Chris Johnston and Erika Donaghey have Winning Team (91 points) for his research on stem cells and been elected as President and Aaron Taylor Individual Winner (40 points) cartilage repair. Aaron Kearney Paul Reavey Abacus Professional Recruitment Vice-President of the Alumni Association. Adam Leslie Longest Drive competition The Garrod Prize is awarded annually by Peng Ye. Chris works as a PR consultant for MCE Paul Reavey Individual Runner up (39 points) Aaron Kearney the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) Informatics graduate Peng Ye has Public Relations based in Belfast. He started Emma Leslie to a scientist with a non-clinical background been appointed as Chief Operating his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers Runner-Up Team (89 points) Our thanks to everyone who who has demonstrated distinguished Officer for Baidu – China’s leading before working in Washington DC as Connie McKelvey Ulster Team Challenge sponsored prizes: contribution to the field of Rheumatology. internet search engine. an associate with the United States John Quinn - branded ball over 4 holes The Prize consists of £1,000, an invitation Environmental Protection Agency and then Oliver Ward Terry McFaul Lough Erne Resort, Hilton Hotels, to give a presentation of the work during Baidu has more than 70 percent of the with the Washington-Ireland Programme Michael O’Connor George Booth Abacus Professional Recruitment, the BSR Annual Meeting and an editorial market share in China and provides for Service and Leadership. Mark Harvey Belfast Visitor and Convention Bureau, by the winner to be published in the BSR internet search and related services to Riverside Theatre. journal, Rheumatology. more than 300 million people. He worked at Ulster in the Public Affairs Home Department (2003-2006) during which Wael graduated with a first class honours he co-founded a UK children’s charity the degree in Biomedical Science in 1994 Since his appointment in April 2008, Peng Youth Empowerment Scheme. Economics at Coleraine. He was then awarded the has been responsible for the company’s prestigious Arthritis Research Campaign overall sales, marketing and operations - Chris graduated at Jordanstown in 2003 PhD Studentship to pursue his PhD at quite a challenge in an organisation that 1977 with a BA Hons Business Studies with the University of Sheffield. Wael became boasts more than a 100 percent revenue Diploma in Industrial Studies. He has a postdoctoral scientist in Sheffield then growth rate year on year over the last also studied at Montana State University Reunion moved to Bristol in 2000 developing a 14 quarters. Business School. Chris has recently programme of work focused on cartilage participated in an executive leadership Fidelma O`Reilly and Bernadette tissue engineering. In 2002 he was selected Peng left his home country in 1991 to do education programme at Kennedy School McKeever are planning a reunion as a Travelling Fellow, funded by The a PhD within the area of Informatics at the of Government at Harvard University. for the Home Economics graduates Novartis Foundation, at CASE Western Jordanstown campus and subsequently of 1977. Reserve University in Ohio, USA. He gained took up a position as a research officer Erika Donaghey graduated in 2000 with an extensive experience in the isolation and while continuing to study part-time MA in Marketing. She is a Sales Manager The provisional date is Saturday 18 culture of adult stem cells that allowed him until 1996. October 2008 and it is hoped that all 39 to develop his own research programme for Hilton Northern Ireland. ladies will be able to attend. If you are using these cells for cartilage repair. “Studying and working at the University in touch with anyone from this class, do of Ulster was a great experience for me, An opportunity to visit some of the please let them know about the event. Wael’s research has been recognised not only academically but also my personal Coleraine Reunion local area by either minibus or boat was through peer-reviewed publications and development. I met a lot of students from enjoyed by a number of the alumni. It is anticipated that the reunion will be grants, conference presentations and many countries on the campus and the Fifty graduates from the classes of held in Belfast Castle. through young investigator prizes. In 2003 people in Northern Ireland were very kind 1980 -1984 returned to Coleraine for a The event was rounded off by a he was awarded the British Society for and we made a lot of friends there. Our reunion at the end of August 2008. As splendid reunion dinner back on Fidelma and Bernadette are really Rheumatology Young Investigator Award two children were born in Belfast and we well as catching up with what former campus on the Saturday evening. looking forward to meeting everyone and was a finalist for the New Investigator see Belfast as our second home,” says Peng. friends are doing now the graduates again and renewing our friendships. Award of the USA Orthopaedic Research were given an illustrated talk and a Next year’s reunion, for those who Society. More recently, he has been a lead On graduating Peng joined leading campus tour by Professor Alan Sharp, graduated from 1985-1989, will be Bernadette can be contacted at contributor to a new methodology for telecoms company Nortel in Monkstown Provost of the Coleraine campus. held on 15/16 August 2009. [email protected] or cartilage tissue engineering using human and London before returning to work with through the Alumni Relations Office. stem cells. Since February 2006 he has the company in China in 2000. Chris Johnston.

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The Royal Irish Academy is Ireland’s Aisling Doherty in the pipeline. He is the co-author and acting bug he caught at Belfast Youth Academic Honours In Learned Company premier learned society, numbering Nobel BA Hons Theatre Studies 1998 co-editor (with another haiku poet, John and Community Theatre while a student. prize winners, world famous scholars and Barlow) of Wing Beats: British Birds in Two leading academics from the high ranking politicians amongst Chelley McLear Haiku, which was published by Snapshot The New Theatre School followed in University, both Ulster alumni, its members. BA Hons Theatre Studies 1995 Press in July. The book features over 300 Boston, Massachusetts. After graduation received awards in The Queen's haiku on over 125 species of birds, has he pursued his craft in Toronto. He Birthday Honours List in May 2008. A novelist and poet as well as a literary a foreword by well-known bird writer quickly became a member of Canadian historian and editor, Professor Welch’s and BBC producer Stephen Moss, and Actors Equity after playing the role of main research interests lie in Irish literature is illustrated with beautiful watercolours One Shot Dunphy in Carolans Farewell. in both Irish and English, translation and by Sean Gray. Further details can be translation theory, literary history and obtained from www.wingbeats.co.uk He later moved to New York City to star cultural interactions in the European and in the one man show Rum and Vodka global context. He is also a past president written by Conor McPherson. This was of the International Association for the Johnny O’Callaghan a huge success and led to recordings for Study of Irish Literatures. BSc Hons Computing and HBO and NBC. And after several Regional Information Systems 1993 and Off Broadway successes and landing Professor McNulty (left) and Professor Welch (right) Professor McNulty worked for two years the same agent as Jack Nicholson he with Professor Nicholas Canny, President of the Royal Irish Academy. as a nutritionist in the Kellogg Company moved to Los Angeles. John travels in Manchester before joining Ulster in between Los Angeles, New York, Toronto Professor Robert Welch, Professor of 1992 as a lecturer in human nutrition and Vancouver. His life resembles a circus English and Professor Helene McNulty, and dietetics, being promoted to senior at times as he travels with his son Odin Professor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics lecturer in 1997 and to professor in 2001. and dog Charlie. at the Northern Ireland Centre for She is a member of the British Dietetic Aisling Doherty (front centre) and Chelley McLear Food and Health, have been elected to Association, the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic (front right) with performance poetry group He joined the sci-fi world by recurring as membership of the Royal Irish Academy. Institute and the Nutrition Society. Scream Blue Murmur. Niam on the TV Series Stargate Atlantis Professor Hugh McKenna, Dean of Coleraine campus graduates Aisling where he plays an Ancient Replicator. He the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, and Chelley are currently touring with a originated the role of Godzilla in Crow’s becomes a CBE, in recognition of his Conor McCully creation, sales, recruitment and training, performance Poetry Show, The Morning production of the most successful play services to healthcare and the community BA Hons Visual Communication 2000 marketing, business plan after the Summer of Love. The show is ever in Japan - Godzilla by Yasuhiko in Northern Ireland. Hugh holds a BSc and deployment. written and performed by Scream Ohashi. Hons Nursing for Registered Nurses, 1985, Blue Murmur. an Advanced Diploma in Education, 1991 The scholarship was introduced this Other Film and TV credits include Joyce and a DPhil, 1991. year into the portfolio of challenges In their third new show in two years, Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaney’s, offered by the Institute’s Northern Scream Blue Murmur (formerly the CBS The Agency with Beau Bridges, the Ireland Branch. Belfast Poets Touring Group) takes a Independent hit Clutch, the CBS movie of look at 1968. Sometimes serious and the week Deep in My Heart with sometimes irreverent, they cover events Anne Bancroft, Haven’t We Met Before that made ‘68 a year to remember. with Nicolette Sheridan and Marin Gary Campbell Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. He most BSc Hons Environmental Science 1988 The Morning after the Summer of Love recently completed the mini series ZOS is poetry but not quite as you have seen Zone of Separation. Environmental scientist Gary Campbell it before with music, song, beat boxing, has been appointed as Dean of Science and even a bit of Hendrix’s rendition www.johnnyocallaghan.com and Technology at UHI, the higher of his national anthem. The show also education institution that hopes to includes sound bites with people who From left: Kevin Smyth, Chairman of the Institute become the University of the Highlands of Hospitality NI Branch; Conor McCully; Dr David remember ‘68 first hand. Virgina Aitken Elliot, Dell Northern Ireland. and Islands. He was previously subject MA Education 1981 network leader for the sustainable The new show had its premier in Belfast’s Belfast campus graduate Conor science, heritage and development Linen Hall Library in May 2008, prior to Virginia Aitken’s latest book was McCully of Botanic Inns was the network at UHI and is an expert on a tour of New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur John O’Callaghan has performed in published in June. Oh My Child is a winner of the newly established nutrient cycling – once picking off all and Singapore. Canada, Ireland and the USA and is a prequel to Snowdrops for Ada and Professor Anne Moran, Dean of the scholarship to the world famous the leaves from five oak trees by hand citizen of all three. He left home at 17 completes the Porter Legacy trilogy. Faculty of Social Sciences, becomes an Cornell University School of Hotel – as well as the spread of alien plant www.aislingdoherty.wordpress.com to work for BMW in Munich, Germany. OBE in recognition of her services to Administration in New York at the species and greenhouse gas emissions. www.myspace.com/icklepet After falling asleep many times on Virginia enjoyed a career as a teacher higher education in Northern Ireland. Institute of Hospitality Janus Awards the factory floor he decided to study of English and Drama and is now a Anne was awarded a BEd Hons Home in May 2008. Gary graduated in environmental Computer Science at Jordanstown. freelance educational consultant and Economics in 1981, MSc Education science at the Coleraine campus before Matthew Paul writer. As well as her three novels she Management in 1986 and a DPhil in 1991. Applicants were asked to create taking a masters degree in forest BA Hons Philosophy 1989 After graduation he got a job working has published five educational books and the business model for the future business management and development for Independence Investment Associates, has had three plays performed on the The Queen’s Birthday Honours List pays restaurant or Boutique Hotel of their from the University of Aberdeen and a Following the publication of his an Investment Company in Boston, USA. amateur stage. tribute to outstanding achievement and dreams. The competition focused PhD in environmental modeling from collection of haiku, The Regulars, last Although earning 75,000 US dollars he service across the entire community. on design, theme and layout, menu the University of Sheffield. year, Matthew has another publication could not stop acting because of the www.penpress.co.uk

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Avram Dumitrescu Masters in focus to Social Geography. Ulster Graduate He has recently taken up a post in which Mike's research work specialised on Goodbye he is responsible for Teaching and Learning residential segregation arising from Applied Arts 2004 and BA Hons Nominated for in Dundalk Institute of Technology. 'the troubles', a theme that was highly Turner Prize A number of staff have left the pertinent for the times, and also in Visual Communication 1999 University since our last issue. Professor Marshall McCabe attained engaging many years of undergraduate his PhD from Trinity College, Dublin and and postgraduate students. His teaching Cathy Wilkes, MA Fine Art 1992, has They include: worked at the University from 1971 until expertise in quantitative analysis is Avram Dumitrescu has had his been shortlisted for the prestigious his recent retirement. He was initially the basis of the School's successful illustrations published in a book by and controversial Turner Prize, one Harry Macklin left the University at the end of August after over 30 years based at the Jordanstown campus and development of Geographical Information the University of California Press. of the world’s most provocative of distinguished service in Sport and subsequently the Coleraine campus. Systems in Human Geography at all levels MFK Fisher Among the Pots and Pans contemporary art awards. was written by Joan Reardon, a food Recreation Services. Harry has been a including academic enterprise. very popular member of staff not just He has earned a global reputation as a historian. The book is a biography Cathy was born in Belfast in 1966, within the Sports Academy but also with glacial geomorphologist. His advances in Professor Brian Graham graduated from of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, one and now lives and works in Glasgow. of America’s most popular twentieth staff from all departments and faculties understanding the dynamics of climate QUB with a PhD in Historical Geography. at Jordanstown. change, late glacial processes and resulting From his move to Jordanstown in century food writers. Cathy was nominated for her current landforms in a North Atlantic and Irish 1972 and subsequently to Coleraine, show at the Milton Keynes Gallery, John Dallat has been associated with context have resulted in peerless work, his interests have evolved to include Avram was commissioned to create which includes her Non-Verbal the University since 1973 when he took including papers in Nature and Science geographical epistemology, transport watercolour paintings of the various installation of a television, a baby his Master's degree. He was a Lecturer in that are cited widely, and more recently the geography and cultural heritage. Brian kitchens and homes in which Fisher lived. buggy, a jar of apricot preserve, as the Ulster Polytechnic from 1977-1982, Award of Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy. is internationally recognised as an expert He illustrated 15 interiors and exteriors, well as a shop mannequin with a and in 1985 became a Senior Lecturer. Human Geographer in all these fields sometimes working from old black and bowl of left-over dried porridge at He is an immensely skilled and caring Dr Mike Poole attained his PhD from QUB with a broad publication record including white photographs from Fisher’s personal its feet. collection, and occasionally working from educator and was given the Distinguished in Economic Geography and started work several books that have influenced only a written description. For the book he Teaching Award in 1992. at Coleraine in 1972 having changed his disciplines in the social sciences, The Tate explained that the work was archaeology and geography. also painted nine illustrations of food and influenced by Walter Sickert’s 1927 kitchen items that were important painting, Lazarus Breaks His Fast: to Fisher. “The porridge is the first meal He currently works as a Scientific Illustrator after resurrection.” Avram was born in Jersey, the Channel for the Center for Big Bend Studies Your Sofa, Your Online Campus... Islands and raised in Northern Ireland. at Sul Ross State University, where he She is the fourth Ulster graduate to be While earning his Masters he freelanced also teaches. His work with the Center nominated for the prize, underscoring You can study for a Masters degree at the University of Ulster without ever attending for the Ulster Tatler, visiting different involves illustrating maps and profiles of the artistic reputation of the School towns in Northern Ireland and illustrating archaeological sites in West Texas. He is campus. Online study allows you to balance your study commitments with other of Art and Design. She follows in in watercolour the architecture unique to also an adjunct professor of graphic the footsteps of Willie Doherty, from important areas of your life and can be more cost effective than traditional study each location. design at Sul Ross. Derry, who has been nominated because you don’t need time away from work. Students from over 45 twice for the Turner Prize in 1994 After completing his education, Avram In addition to his university work, he and 2003; Christine Borland, a countries have already decided that Campus One has the course emigrated to Texas and married journalist continues to produce fine art, and sculptor, shortlisted in 1997, and Katherine Megan Wilde. After two years has recently focused on acrylic and for them, have a look at what we can offer you. video artist Phil Collins, who was in Austin, Texas they moved to the Big watercolour images of the West Texas nominated in 2006. Bend area of Texas, where parts of No desert landscape, architecture and animals. Postgraduate Certificates, Diplomas & Masters programmes: Country for Old Men and There Will Be You can see more of his work at Commenting on her work, Stephen Blood were filmed. www.onlineavram.com • Arts & Culture • Engineering Deuchar, director of Tate Britain and chairman of the Turner Prize jury, said: • Earth & Environmental Sciences • Healthcare & Medicine • Education & Lifelong Learning • Research “Cathy’s work is not always going to be comfortable for the viewer.”

An exhibition by this year’s four shortlisted artists, which each year attracts up to 100,000 visitors, will be staged at Tate Britain from October 7. The winner will be announced on 1 For more information e-mail: December 2008. [email protected] Alistair Wilson, Reader in Fine Art, or go to our website: said he was delighted a Cathy’s nomination and the recognition it implied for fine art at the University. www.campusone.ulster.ac.uk/graduate

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this qualification, especially to one of the highest levels of HSE Part 1, so I am Making a Success out of Drama extremely proud of my achievement.”

Two recent graduates from the BA Shortly afterwards she moved to the Drama programme at Magee have US, working initially with a terrestrial taken significant steps towards archaeology company in Michigan before carving out successful professional joining the PAST Foundation, a non-profit careers by securing spaces on organisation created in 2000 to promote prestigious training programmes in partnerships between anthropologists and London and Canada. educators through innovative projects throughout the US. Kat Woods, who graduated in 2007, has been offered a place for professional This summer she took part in nine field training with the Drama Studio in schools including caving in Kentucky to London. She will be following in the collect spider webs for research into their footsteps of some of the Studio’s most tensile strength. famous students including Oscar winner Forest Whittaker and Oscar nominee Anne is married to Dr Graeme Knox, who Emily Watson. graduated from Ulster in 2003 with a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering and who is now responsible for an advanced materials development group in the automotive industry in Detroit.

In the long term she hopes to return to Doctor Doodles (Laura, left) and Doctor Merry Kay. Hitting New Depths university to complete a PhD, but in the meantime is enjoying her dream job. fulfill my ambition to work in television really encouraged me to pursue further direction. The cost of the year’s fees study and employment in this Anne Corscadden-Knox, who graduated from Ulster in 2002 with a MSc in “What makes it great? Where do I begin? however will be over £12,000 so I innovative area. Maritime Archaeology and Coastal Zone Management, is not so much soaring I see incredible things that only a few will be depending on fundraising and to new heights in her career as plumbing the depths. privileged people get to see. I visit parts sponsorship to help raise the much- “In March I was invited by Professor For Anne, a research associate and Anne has another two exciting projects of America that I never thought I would needed funds. I will be organising lots Bernie Warren, considered the world’s programme co-ordinator with the PAST lined up. One is as co-principal get to. It is great to be actively involved of fundraising events in both Derry and leading expert in Clown Doctors, to Foundation in the United States, spends investigator on a shipwreck investigation in educating people and promoting Fermanagh over the next few months.” study under his guidance on a senior much of her time leading underwater in the Gulf of Mexico. “This is a huge cultural heritage. undergraduate course called ‘Clowning in explorations to map the sites of research expedition which will encompass Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Laura Hospitals and Healthcare’ at the University famous shipwrecks. a multi-disciplinary scientific approach. “There is also a huge adrenalin buzz in Johnston has had a very busy time of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. In order To be heading up the archaeology my work. Unlike most people, on a Friday since graduating with a first class to take up this amazing opportunity I She has just completed a mission to map, section is not only one of the highlights afternoon I and my colleagues are upset degree in July 2007. After graduation had to raise over £5,000 in a very short document and measure the shipwreck of my career, but also a tremendous that there will be two whole days when Laura spent six months working in space of time, which was a real challenge! site of the Menemom Sanford, a side- responsibility,”she says. we cannot work. On Sunday night I get Kat Woods Walt Disney World, Florida whilst also Thankfully, I secured the necessary funds wheel paddle steamer which sank near excited that I am going back to work in completing a postgraduate certificate and and since May I have been busy with my Key Largo in the Florida Keys during And she has been given a grant from the morning.” Originally from Fermanagh, Kat has lived Scholarship Program at the University of studies whilst also interning with ‘Fools the American Civil War. The vessel was the State of California to conduct and worked in Derry for the past four years Central Florida. for Health’, the official clown doctor carrying soldiers of the 156th New York archaeological and historical research into Having made such a good job of and since graduating already has three programme in Ontario. I’ve been putting Volunteers to New Orleans when it hit shipwrecks of the Californian Gold Rush. selling her work to other would-be theatre shows under her belt. Carole-Anne Laura explains: my drama skills to use for healing and a coral reef in what may have been an archaeologists, she has a warning. “A Upton, Professor of Drama said: distraction in the local hospitals and act of sabotage by the pilot, who was Her first job after graduation was with an degree is not enough and I’m now “As an undergraduate I undertook an nursing homes and have found the whole later arrested. archaeology company in Northern Ireland. finding that neither is a Masters. You will “Kat is the only person in the UK to independent piece of research in the area experience unbelievably rewarding.” “It was terrestrial based as I thought if I never see these types of jobs advertised. be offered a place on the one-year of arts-in-health. I looked at the use Previously Anne took part in a dive to can’t do it on land there is no way I can It’s about getting out there, getting the postgraduate directing course and is the of distraction and laughter therapy and So what is next for busy Laura? explore the watery grave of what is do it underwater”. She later obtained experience and job opportunities come first graduate from Ulster’s new Drama how ‘Clown Doctors’ (performers who believed to be the wreck of the Queen a bursary from the Irish Government through recommendations. You could department to pursue professional training specialise in light-hearted performances “Once I complete this unique training I Anne’s Revenge, flagship of the notorious to train as a commercial diver. This have all the qualifications in the world, in the directing field. We wish her very in heath-care settings) can change the plan to return to Northern Ireland and put pirate Blackbeard. She was employed involved an intense three month course but if you don’t know how to work as well with her future studies and career” overall experience within hospitals. I my training into practice. My ambition by the State of North Carolina to in Scotland. “That really sorted the men part of a team or how to go that extra registered as a millennium volunteer is to work with others to enhance arts- investigate the substantial archaeological out from the boys! Obviously, being a mile, you will never be recommended. Kat said: and worked on the paediatric ward at in-health programmes and change the debris on the ocean floor. She says: girl had its disadvantages, with oversized Altnagelvin Hospital, Derry where I had overall experience in hospitals for children “Whether or not it was Blackbeard’s equipment being just one of them. “It is a slow and gradual process but “I am delighted to have secured a place the opportunity to create, direct and and adults in Northern Ireland by injecting flagship, it was still a remarkable 18th worth it. I truly believe that I have one of at the prestigious Drama Studio in act pieces for the children’s ward. The some much needed laughter and fun into century shipwreck.” “There are very few women who have the best jobs in the world.” London and feel it will really help me experience was incredibly fulfilling and the hospital atmosphere.”

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trauma counselling, child protection and psychosocial recovery. These programmes Following my graduation, I worked as the 25 Years in Child Protection have been delivered in countries such as Evanna VP Education and Welfare in Coleraine Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and I then became Overall President. Laos, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. This was, by far, the best experience of By Karen Flanagan Fitzgerald my earlier career. I really enjoyed student Child Wise is an exciting organisation life so wanted to help students who, Since graduating with a BSc Hons in to work in. We do a lot of advocacy Following her graduation in 1995, for whatever reason, faced welfare or Social Administration from the New campaigning and lobbying for child Evanna served on the Students’ educational challenges in their day to day University of Ulster, Coleraine in 1982 protection policy and legislative reform. Union Executive for two years. lives. Becoming Overall President was a and a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Although resources are few, being a small Alumni Relations Manager Sue Rees natural progression and taught me so Work (Certificate of Qualification in organisation means that we can respond interviewed her recently. much – for example representation, public Social Work – CQSW) in 1984, my rapidly to the diverse requests for service relations, public speaking, marketing, career has focused on protecting we receive. It is humbling to see children business, law and accounting. Some of children from all forms of child and adults, many in very vulnerable my best memories include the graduation abuse. This interest originated from conditions, showing positive attitudes ceremonies, watching students who I a thesis on incest completed as part and incredible resilience despite trauma had helped with some educational issues, of my degree. I had no idea then that or loss, such as that experienced after the graduate with their peers. Securing an 25 years later I would be working tsunami of December 2004, and several unprecedented and substantial sum of globally to protect children from other disasters which have occurred in money for the Student Hardship fund sexual abuse and exploitation. the Asia-Pacific region. Presently I am is another good memory. Whilst my developing a training strategy to prevent motivation to become a sabbatical officer The early eighties was an interesting the sexual exploitation of children was entirely altruistic, the experience and somewhat ‘scary’ time to be a new vulnerable due to the logging industry in I gained was invaluable. It definitely graduate social worker for Social Services, the Solomon Islands. accelerated my professional development the statutory child protection authority and shaped who I am today. in North/West Belfast. It was a great I have many exciting and dramatic travel foundation for my career as I quickly stories to tell. One day I will write a What has been your career path since developed keen problem-solving and crisis book! People often ask what keeps me leaving the University and what are management skills, I certainly learned going, the answer simply is, there is still you doing now? what ‘resilience’ was! much to be done. However, in 25 years Karen with trainees at a workshop in Goroka, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. there have been massive improvements On leaving Coleraine I trained as a My next position with Barnardo’s, Belfast and child abuse is definitely on the Evanna, tell us a little about your Barrister at the Honourable Society of was working in therapeutic foster care perpetrators of sexual abuse to prevent Administration degree were very useful, political agenda. We must continue to time as a student at the Kings Inns in Dublin. Classes, tutorials with young people in statutory care. them developing into adult sex offenders for example social policy, economics, and advocate for children’s rights and ensure Coleraine campus. and dinings ran every evening for four These young people were living with the to reduce the number of child sexual ethics. Finally I saw the relevance of this child abusers and sex offenders get years so I worked during the day as traumatic impacts of sexual abuse. This abuse victims in the future. information and could put it in access to therapeutic programmes if we The Coleraine campus was a natural an IT contractor. Balancing a career influenced my desire to specialise in to practice! are serious about protecting children. choice for me, it was by the sea, not a with full-time evening studies was the treatment and prevention of child Subsequently, I was offered a position city campus, offered a placement year difficult, especially during Y2K and Euro sexual abuse. with the Victorian State Government as a After an amazing ten years working at the and looked like a fun place. I wasn't programmes but it was worth it when I Senior Training Consultant designing and Children’s Protection Society I was invited wrong! When I was applying for courses was called to Bar in 2002. I have since I moved to Melbourne, Australia delivering innovative training packages to to join Child Wise (ECPAT in Australia) in in the early 90's we were coming out moved to England and work for Ernst & unexpectedly in 1986 (yes, for love!) improve child protection practice and to 2003. Child Wise (www.childwise.net) is of a recession so unemployment and Young in the Financial Services Programme and worked for five years in the newly implement new child protection policy part of a global network operating in 77 immigration was high. It was widely Advisory team, we are a small team of established Child Protection Unit at the and legislation. countries to prevent sexual exploitation recognised that IT graduates were senior programme managers who provide Royal Children’s Hospital. In that time I of children. I had been a board member securing jobs so I applied for the BSc advice on the largest and most complex learned an enormous amount through After almost three years in the of the organisation for several years as I Hons Computing degree. I must admit I programmes in the industry. counselling thousands of sexually abused Department, I was offered the opportunity realised my career aspiration was to work wasn't ecstatic about doing the course children and supporting their families. of a lifetime to join the Children’s more globally on the protection of children as IT did not come naturally to me but What advice would you give to This job also provided new experiences of Protection Society (CPS), a Melbourne and the prevention of child sexual abuse. I rolled up my sleeves and got on with new graduates? working cross-culturally with indigenous based charity as a Programme Manager it. I spent my placement year working Australians and people from many to establish what is now known as the For the past five years I have managed the Christmas Party Thailand, December 2007. for AIB in Dublin. It was a great year, it Be the best at what you do, remain ethnic backgrounds. Sexual Abuse Counselling and Prevention Choose With Care® programme, which breathed reality into my learning and positive under pressure and maintain a I wish to take this opportunity to Programme (SACPP). Firstly we established aims to minimise the risk of child abuse cash into my bank account. healthy work life balance. This work was very rewarding and a therapeutic service for child victims of occurring in organisations that work with acknowledge the brilliant teachers, traumatic. To prevent ‘burnout’ I began supervisors, mentors and colleagues I sexual abuse, then after extensive research children. We provide training to children’s You spent two years as a sabbatical Are you still in touch with any of your reading/researching prevention initiatives have worked with. Without doubt, the and a needs analysis the organisation organisations and groups across Australia officer of the Students Union, former classmates/SU executive? and attended conferences searching for children, young people and families I made a courageous decision to develop a and overseas. Through the delivery of including Overall President from new practice ideas to work out ways to worked with have taught me the most. programme for adolescent perpetrators of this training I have been able to integrate 1996/1997. What are the main No but it would be great if they got in stop sexual abuse. Through great mentors Despite the challenges and setbacks they sexual abuse. There were certainly many my clinical practice working with children things you remember from that touch. I can be found on such as Tony Morrison (UK), and Gail Ryan experienced in their own lives, they have ethical, financial and logistical issues to and perpetrators of sexual abuse. My role period, and how do you feel the www.facebook.com and (USA) I concluded the best prevention taught me resilience, survival, and why be worked through and this is where has expanded to include the design and experience influenced you? www.linkedin.com strategy was to work with young many of the subjects studied in my Social delivery of training programmes in child we need to prevent child abuse.

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was ‘Cathy’, became ‘Miss McBride’. supervised successfully a total of nine Professor JL McCracken Magee College in Derry and the New Retiring in 1981, he spent the later years Obituaries But during the interview Bill had the doctoral candidates, several of whom University in Coleraine. of his career at Coleraine where he was knack of asking the most relevant, if now hold senior academic appointments for long Chairman of the Boards of Study not the most obvious, question, during – for the past twenty years he carried out His efforts did much to establish the solid in History and in Irish Studies. Professor Bill Clarke the answer to which students would see substantial management duties within reputation in the field of historical study the seriousness, or otherwise, of their the University. From 1987 to 1994 he from which many cohorts of students have He made significant contributions to both misbehaviours. And little more need be was Head of Department for Business benefited and upon which the University South African and Irish history, including said. He had a reputation for firmness and Management at the Coleraine continues to build. seminal works on The Cape Parliament, with fairness and was respected by the campus. During this time he oversaw 1854-1910 and Representative student body for this. the transition of the department from a Leslie was born and spent his youth in Government in Ireland: A Study of Dail narrowly focused economics one into a the Church of Ireland rectory at Annahilt Eireann. Chronologically, his publications Bill was a native of East Belfast and spent broadly-based business department with in Co Down. From Wallace High School on Ireland ranged from the early 18th most of his life there. He completed a significant expansion in the number of in Lisburn he proceeded to Queen’s century to his own lifetime; thematically, his undergraduate studies in economics courses, staff and students. In 1994 he University, Belfast. After graduating in from political and constitutional at The Queen’s University of Belfast, returned to the Jordanstown campus to History in 1936, he returned to Wallace developments to a variety of topics in graduating in 1964. He then went to head initially the newly-formed School High for a decade, eventually becoming social history. He contributed a chapter The University of Reading to complete of Management and subsequently the Vice-Principal. University posts were then on early eighteenth-century social history a masters in economics by dissertation. Management Institute. During this time very few and far between and Leslie must to A New History of Ireland. A couple of In going to Reading he declined an he was external examiner at several often have doubted whether he would years ago he provided an up-date to the offer from Keeble College, Oxford, Universities, including Aston, Middlesex, achieve his ambition of becoming an bibliography of his writings contained but Reading had offered a generous Strathclyde and Manchester Metropolitan academic. He never lowered his sights, in the festschrift presented to him in Milk Marketing Board scholarship. On Universities. He also led two Teaching Former colleagues and friends were however, graduating from Queen’s with 1981, saying that its last entry would graduating from Reading he worked Company Schemes (Knowledge saddened to hear recently of the an MA in 1941 and a PhD in 1948, both be his final publication: now lodged in initially for the Milk Marketing Board Transfer Partnerships). death of Professor JL McCracken. by thesis; and supplementing his teacher’s the University archive, this pays eloquent Professor Bill Clarke, who will as a research officer before taking up salary by part-time lecturing at Queen’s testimony to over half a century of have been known to many former a post in the Government Economic For many years Bill represented the Leslie McCracken was one of the and Stranmillis. historiographical endeavour. students of the University, died Service working in the Department of University on the Northern Ireland historians, North and South, whose unexpectedly in April 2008. Agriculture. He returned to Northern Chamber of Commerce and Industry work between the 1930s and the 1970s His first full-time academic appointment, In retirement Professor McCracken lived Ireland to work for the Northern Ireland and for several years was a member enabled Irish history to escape the in 1947, was to the University of the in South Africa with his eldest son, Donal, For the previous six years Bill had been Tourist Board before moving into industry of the governing body of North Down shackles of partisanship and to come of Witwatersrand, and was followed by two a graduate of this University who holds Provost of the Belfast and Jordanstown working for Gallaghers Limited and the and Ards Institute of Further and Higher age as a professional academic discipline. years at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1952 he a Chair in History at the University of campuses, a job at which he excelled British American Tobacco Corporation. Education. At the time of his death he Although he retired before this University was appointed Senior Lecturer and Head Durban-Westville. Fittingly, his ashes will and a job that he enjoyed. There is It was during this time in industry that had just been appointed chairman of the was born, the bulk of his publications of the History Department at Magee, and find a last resting place in Ireland. little doubt that his period as Provost Bill’s career made the transition from governing body of the Northern Regional appeared while he was a member of two was promoted to a Chair in 1957. He and was the most fulfilling of his long and economics to marketing. College and as Provost he represented of the University’s predecessor institutions, his colleagues joined NUU a decade later. Emeritus Professor Peter Roebuck distinguished career. It was as if the the University most effectively on the post of Provost had been created for The move into the academic world took South Belfast Community Relations him, fitting his talents and temperament place in 1976 when Bill was appointed Forum, a feat not achieved easily. perfectly. To the numerous visitors to to a principal lectureship in marketing at TG4 Craftsperson of the Year 2007/8 the campuses he was the perfect host, the Ulster Polytechnic. He transferred Throughout his career Bill was supported Suzanne Harbinson out of the ten finalists for the competition always making them feel welcome be it to a senior lectureship in marketing by his wife, Marion, his daughters, Gill, BA Fine and Applied Arts 2007 and was assigned with a Silversmith in large formal gatherings or in smaller in the University of Ulster on the Jenny and Johanna, and his membership mentor who she worked with in her bid less formal settings. At large events establishment of the University in of Knock Presbyterian Church. More Following a round of applications to become Craftsperson of the Year 2007. he was particularly adept at making 1984. Bill’s academic work focused on recently he enjoyed being a grandfather and intense interviews in May 2007, The four week project required the finalists sure that those who were new to the export marketing, especially in the small to his four grandchildren and was Suzanne Harbinson earned the to design a piece based on an undisclosed University were given an especially business sector and his publications looking forward to the arrival of his fifth chance to become Craftsperson of brief. The artists themselves were only warm welcome and introduced to other included the well-received text Marketing grandchild in September. His family the Year 2007. presented with the brief on arrival. guests. He had a wonderful capacity for for small business in Ireland (Gill and have lost a devoted husband, father friendship, a characteristic that he shared Macmillan), 1990. and grandfather; the world has lost The competition, run by television All ten finalists presented their pieces to with his wife, Marion, who was often a gentleman. He was a man with an company TG4 in conjunction with a panel of international experts in a semi- present with him at University events. He spent a period as a visiting easy going manner combined with a professor of marketing at California seriousness of purpose. Sterling Productions, Craft NI and the final and then five were selected to go Crafts Council of Ireland, was open to through to the final. Suzanne was one of When it came to matters of student State University at Sacramento and all Applied Arts students from third level the five chosen and after more judging discipline Bill was always able to in 1993 was promoted to a personal There can be little comfort in such an colleges of Art and Design in Ireland. Suzanne was awarded TG4 Craftsperson “Comortas Ceirdre”, Craftsperson of the distinguish between instances of professorship in marketing at this untimely passing, but if some is to be Entrants had to specialise in one of five of the Year 2007/8. The @10,000 prize Year was broadcast on the TG4 network student high jinks and cases of serious University. In recognition of his academic sought it is in the fact that he passed areas; glass, jewellery, furniture, ceramics will aid her in furthering her career as a for six consecutive weeks from February misdemeanour and deal with them and other work in marketing Bill was away suddenly whilst officiating at a PSNI and textiles, and two individuals were contemporary jeweler. to April 2008. appropriately. All students, though, were elected to a Fellowship of the Chartered graduation ceremony, an event that he chosen for each discipline. called for an interview with the Provost Institute of Marketing in 1995. always enjoyed greatly. TG4 filmed the development of the work Contact: at which Bill would take on his most Suzanne, who specialises in metalsmithing, and the judging over a six-week period in [email protected] formal manner. On these occasions even Whilst Bill continued to publish and Professor Richard Barnett silver and jewellery, was selected as one the summer 2007. Website: www.sh-jewellery.co.uk his secretary, who on all other occasions supervise doctoral students – he Vice-Chancellor

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Mitchell Scholars A conference to celebrate the 10th Ulster Festival of anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, hosted by the US-Ireland Alliance and held in Belfast in April Art and Design 2008, gave six former Mitchell Scholars the opportunity to return to Supported by Carson McDowell Northern Ireland. Here is an update on what four of them have been doing since leaving the University. This June saw the launch of the There were also talks by Andrea Rose, who Alan Reilly, Senior Partner Carson McDowell, with inaugural Ulster Festival of Art leads the Visual Arts Department at the Professor Richard Barnett. Aaron Kurman and Design, supported by Carson British Council and is the Commissioner MA Peace and Conflict Studies 2008 McDowell. The idea of running a for the British Pavilion at the Venice Glass-making was also available in a three Festival was prompted by the success Biennale and Sarah Praill, a senior designer day workshop covering topics such as After leaving Northern Ireland in July 2007, of the annual End of Year Show with Thames and Hudson publishers, casting, mould-making and glass kiln firing I returned home to the States briefly before From left: Aaron Kurman, Rebecca Aslakson, Matt Alexander, Georgia Mjartan, Ben Cote and Brandon Thibodeaux. when graduates present their work whose credits include David Hockney, when participants had a rare opportunity moving to Jerusalem. I spent August in a campus-wide exhibition. This Paula Rego and Howard Hodgkin. to work with Inge Panneels, one of 2007 - May 2008 in Jerusalem as a Dorot This summer I have been working in emphasizing the importance of protecting event is a highpoint in the visual arts Europe’s leading glass artists. Fellow. While there, I studied both Hebrew Washington DC for the Department of human rights for conflict prevention calendar and it seemed like a natural In a wide range of workshops, hosted and Arabic and volunteered with Seeds of Justice's Antitrust Division. and resolution. progression to develop it with a range by leading artists and practitioners, Adding to the Festival mix was the post Peace and the Jerusalem Policy Forum. of complementary activity. participants were given the opportunity to punk troubadour, Attila the Stockbroker, I also had the opportunity to travel, both At the moment, I am going through the While Sri Lanka in many ways has got gain ‘hands-on’ experience and develop as well as renowned DJs, Skibunny and within the State of Israel and the West confirmation stage to serve as a member of worse since I first arrived, it provided a Each of Ulster’s campuses runs a term-time new skills. legendary blues jazz musician, Ronnie Bank, as well as in Europe. the Louisiana State Board of Ethics. valuable practical experience in peace programme of cultural activity to enhance Greer with a special one-off performance I will return to New Orleans in the fall work. Tami and I will be getting married academic work and profile the University. Caroline Till, from the Futures Laboratory with an eight-piece, star studded band. Soon after returning to the States at the to complete my legal studies. I had the in August and this fall we will attend The Ulster Festival of Art and Design in London, led a two-day workshop on end of May 2008, I moved to Maine to opportunity to visit Magee and enjoy a University of Michigan Law School, where brought a concentrated schedule of high Fashion Re-Styling, redesigning clothes The End of Year Show remained at the work as a head counselor at Seeds of stroll along the Foyle in April and I must say I hope to concentrate on international law quality events which broadened this and artefacts from charity shops in core of the Festival: with between 3,000 Peace International camp. It was my fourth it was a sincere pleasure to be back on the and negotiation. programme and offered a menu to entice preparation for their auction, with the and 4,000 guests visiting the show on summer at the camp, which hosts teens Magee campus where I learned so much people with all sorts of interests to indulge proceeds going back to charity. its opening night alone it is still a hugely from the Middle East and other conflict about the Ulster way of doing things and Rebecca (Reichert) Aslakson in some of the wide range of activities. significant occasion in the visual arts / regions for summertime coexistence the study of Peace and Conflict. MSc Biomedical Science 2001 In Virtual Textiles and Fashion Design academic calendar. programmes. In the fall, I plan to begin A packed programme of events offered workshops participants learned how to law school at Stanford University. Ben Cote After completing my research work with Dr 29 events in 12 days including talks, use Computer Aided Design (CAD) to It is intended that the Festival will grow MA Peace and Conflict Studies 2007 Helene McNulty in the School of Biomedical workshops, screenings and exhibitions develop virtual textile techniques, such over the coming three to four years into Brandon Thibodeaux Sciences at Coleraine I returned to Boston, with some music and poetry thrown in for as simulated knits, simulated weaves and one of international status and that MA Peace and Conflict Studies 2005 After finishing my coursework at Magee Massachusetts where I finished my medical good measure. repeat patterns. we can develop its programme in an I spent a month in Southern Africa, school degree at Harvard Medical School/ increasingly exciting scale. The inaugural Since leaving Magee, my life has been travelling to South Africa, Botswana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Internationally recognised professionals There were also workshops on digital year provided a varied programme that somewhat interesting. In September 2005, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. When graduating in 2003. I then completed and practitioners discussed their work photography dealing with documentary was engaging, enjoyable and a solid I began a second masters programme at I returned to the US I worked as a Capital an internship at Newton Wellesley and careers. Peter O’Brien, considered by photography and portraiture, studio foundation from which to develop in the the University of Glasgow. At the same City Fellow at the Office of the Mayor and Hospital and anesthesiology residency at many to be the best couturier Ireland has and location. years to come. time my family lost everything to Hurricane Department of Public Works in Washington Massachusetts General Hospital in ever produced, spoke about his career and Rita (a hurricane that came two weeks after DC where I did performance management, Boston, Massachusetts. recent capsule collection commissioned Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans conducted budget analysis, and liaised with by a|wear. He is former Head of Design and the surrounding Gulf coast). federal agencies. I am currently finishing a surgical critical with legendary Paris fashion house Rochas care fellowship at the Johns Hopkins having also worked with Marc Bohan at After I finished my studies in Glasgow, Last year my college sweetheart Tami Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy, as I returned to Louisiana and New Orleans Weerasingha was awarded a Fulbright am just about to join the Johns Hopkins well as designing for Chloe in Paris in to study law at Tulane University School Scholarship to do work on domestic Hospital faculty as an assistant professor the 1980s. of Law. At Tulane, I have been involved violence in Sri Lanka, and I accompanied of anesthesiology and critical care. I with various organizations that have her there to work for the National Peace am also starting PhD work at the Johns Mike Toobey, formerly Director, National helped small businesses try and recover Council (NPC), a local peace-building Hopkins School of Public Health where my Museum and Gallery, Cardiff and from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. I organization. I wrote grant applications for research interests concern communication currently the Director, Learning and am also the Online Editor as well as a conflict analysis, conducted monitoring and between care providers and families as Programmes of the National Museum Managing Editor for the Tulane Journal evaluation of NPC projects throughout the well as end-of-life care in intensive care of Wales, the umbrella organization for of Maritime Law. Recently, I became the island, and ran an international conference units. My husband Erin and I live in the seven national museums of Wales, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Civil on Pluralism in South Asia as a means of Baltimore and enjoy hiking, travel, theater, discussed the way artists operate as Law Commentaries, the first student-edited transforming the dialogue in the country. and cheering on the Boston Red Sox generators of works for exhibition and legal publication dedicated to the Louisiana I also wrote an Op-Ed in the Derry Journal baseball team. We are expecting our first collection, compared with how they operate as ‘go-betweens’. Models wearing designs by BDes Fashion Students Blathnaid Geoghegan and Karen Toner with Alan Reilly (left) Code and the state's civilian legal tradition. relating Sri Lanka to Northern Ireland, child in December. and Professor Jim Allen (right) at the Festival launch.

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Wonderland Dancing in the Exhibition Corridors of Going Float On The Wonderland Exhibition brings Power together the worlds of art and science. Solo A showcase of talent, imagination A final year dance student at the and creativity, this unique exhibition Magee campus had the honour Ulster is delighted to announce a will be shown in Belfast’s Ormeau of performing in the Houses of new Corporate Partnership with Baths Gallery from 9 October until 9 Parliament in April 2008. Solo Group Ltd who will front the November 2008. Ryan O’Neill, who has since gone on Ulster Elks Men’s Super League Basketball Team as lead sponsor for The inspiration for Wonderland came from to receive a first-class honours degree, the next three years. the idea for a “disappearing bottle”. One fireworks. The dresses will be hung from was selected by the Arts Council of that would have an intelligent relationship scaffolds and gradually lowered into giant Northern Ireland to perform for MPs with its contents; that would know it was goldfish bowls of water over the duration and peers at Westminster as part of no longer needed when the contents of the exhibition. Wonderland poignantly the ‘Arts in Parliament’ initiative – a were gone and would shrink or disappear questions the environmental sustainability nationwide celebration of the arts. altogether. of our current fashion industry and what Ryan is the first artist from Northern happens to used clothing. Ireland to take part in the project. Artist and designer Professor Helen Storey from the London College of Fashion With the knowledge, technical expertise has worked with Tony Ryan, Professor and leading edge resources available in of Physical Chemistry and director of Interface, all the fabrics for the Wonderland the Polymer Centre at the University couture dresses were developed in Belfast. of Sheffield, to spark new ideas on the These beautiful, laser-cut and bonded, application of science and discover practical stitched and printed, texturised and solutions to current ethical issues. embellished materials have the potential for The corporate partnership with Solo many other future applications in the fields From left: Jane Dundas (Bow), Christina Greenaway (3), Victor Hamill (Coach), Megan Devlin (Stroke), Sharon Group has provided much needed Their joint belief that drastic new thinking of science, textiles and health. Mairs (2), Catherine Craig - sitting (Cox). funds to promote and develop is required to address today’s environmental basketball as a leading sport for Ulster The University’s Rowing Club has on the river twice a week as well as issues has created four new products - The exhibition is accompanied by an and will assist the Ulster Elks Men’s seen a significant revival over the Wednesday afternoons plus weekends. In including the disappearing bottle and a extensive education programme managed Super League Basketball Team to reach past couple of years. Rowing is not addition, land training in the gym using revolutionary water purification pillow. by the University in tandem with the full professional capacity. only growing in popularity but this weights, circuits and rowing machines The Wonderland exhibition in Belfast will Creative Youth Partnerships and the year all the training effort of the (ergometers) became obligatory and demonstrate disappearing dresses, made OBG when a series of five ‘Creative Labs’ Dr. Philip Hammond, Director of Arts Support of Dr Deirdre Brennan, School of Sports dedicated members of the Club has fitness levels were raised as well as from dissolving textiles designed by Trish will each host five days of workshops the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, dancer Ryan Studies Senior Lecturer and Elks’ paid off handsomely and shows that improving technical rowing competence. Belford, one of the team at the University during the run of the show for over 100 O’Neill and Foyle MP Mark Durkan MLA. coach said: University rowing at Coleraine is a of Ulster’s Interface. The material dissolves young people from 25 schools around Ryan performed a solo dance piece seriously resurging sport. During Spring 2008 the Women’s Coxed in water, creating vibrant underwater Northern Ireland. based on the exploration of space “The support from Solo Group is Four competed in the Lagan Head of the set to ‘The Island Beyond the World’. a huge benefit for the University’s During the first Semester over 15 students River in February, the Tribesmen Head Ulster Students As well as performance and The piece was choreographed basketball team, and not just signed up to row and for the first time in of the River in Galway in March, the choreography work, the students had to especially for him by Dr Sophia financially. It is support such as that many years the Club was able to produce University Championships at Castlewellan Launch New Dance take on the administration, education Preston, Course Director of the BA committed by Solo Group that will an eight which trained regularly on the Lake in April and the Belfast Sprint Company and outreach duties associated with Hons Dance programme, and was assist Ulster in realising its vision to river and in the gym. Interestingly, some Regatta in May when the crew won their performances. composed by Dr Phillip Hammond become the leading university for sport American students who were here for one their heat and reached the semi-final, Open Space, the University’s first from the Arts Council. on the island of Ireland.“ semester were popular and enthusiastic providing one of the most exciting races undergraduate dance company, was An ancillary outreach programme, members of the crew. The crew competed of the day. Unfortunately they were launched in May 2008 with four sponsored by Bank of Ireland, was also “It is a real achievement to have been Solo Group was founded in 2001, at the Bann Head of the River Race in beaten by just a few inches, proving the successful public performances in presented as part of the project. Guest selected by the Arts Council to perform as a construction services company, November 2007 in the Novice Eight’s highlight of the crew’s racing season. Belfast and Derry. artists Stevie Prickett and Emily Dobson in Westminster. Dance is an important undertaking small contract measured category. This was the first time a University worked with St Cecilia’s College in Derry arts activity which should be made works and supplying high calibre trades eight from Coleraine had competed at an Victor Hamill is the Club coach and is The company was run solely by and St Louise’s in Belfast to create two accessible to all. I hope that following and labour to an impressive array of open event in over 20 years. ably helped by Charlotte Peile, Sports final-year dance students, who also original pieces which were presented the event MPs will recognise dance for clients in multiple sectors in Ireland. Development Assistant. Victor said “We performed in, and choreographed for, alongside the Open Space work in its value in society,” added Ryan. To find out more about Solo Group Following the American students’ have had a good year and rowing is the company. The performances performances in Belfast and Derry. please contact: Solo Group, Head Office: departure, re-forming a crew of eight making excellent progress. The Club has also featured new work created Ryan , 21, has now secured a place proved difficult and so the best option plans to develop further in 2008/09 and especially for them by the two Dance The undergraduate dance company will with Transitions, the highly regarded Tel: +44 (0) 28 9033 0934 was to concentrate on a Women’s Novice we look forward to having a University Artists-in-Residence, Sandie Fisher and be an annual feature of the BA Hons postgraduate dance company of the Email: [email protected] Coxed Four. Boat Race in Coleraine just as soon as we Paul Norton. Degree programme. Laban Centre, London. Web: http://www.sologroup.co.uk can invite suitable opposition to race us Training required early morning outings on the Bann”.

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