Current Awardees

The Fulbright Commission is delighted to announce the following Fulbright Irish Awardees going to the US for the 2010 – 2011 academic year:

Mr. Paul Alexander is undertaking a research masters in University College Dublin in the area of Climatology, Urban Climates and Climate change. While on his Fulbright he will conduct research in the area of urban climatology at the School of Geographical Sciences + Urban Planning at Arizona State University. He is the recipient of the Fulbright – Environmental Protection Agency Award in Environmental Science & Policy.

Ms. Marie-Louise Bowe is currently a Music Methods lecturer at NUI Maynooth and Music Teacher at Belvedere College Dublin. Ms. Bowe will undertake a Ph.D. at Columbia College in New York City. Her main area of research is the ‘examination of Instrumental Music Education in Ireland’.

Mr. Michael Casey has just completed his B.A in Irish and French at University College Dublin. He will be a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas.

Mr. David Comerford is a third year Doctoral student of Economics at University College Dublin. David will undertake research as part of his Ph.D. in the area of Consumer judgment and Decision Making at Duke University, North Carolina.

Dr. Katherine Curran is based at School of Agriculture in University College Dublin. Dr. Curran will undertake research at University of Illinois in the area of – Design Rules for Dynamic Macrocyclisation and the potential applications.

Ms. Marie Darmody has just completed an M.A. in Modern Irish at National University of Ireland - Galway. Marie will be a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Mr. Maitiú de Hál has just completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Education at the National University of Ireland – Galway. Maitiú will be a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Elms College, Massachusetts.

Dr. Liam Delaney is currently a lecturer in Economics and Deputy Director of the Geary Institute in University College Dublin. Dr. Delaney will undertake research at Princeton University in the area of Historical and Policy Determinants of Irish Health and Well Being.

Mr. Paul Duffy is a Ph.D. candidate at the Dublin Institute of Technology.  Paul intends to develop and test an automated biosensor capable of detecting specific DNA target sequences during his Fulbright research project at Purdue University in Indiana.  This research will be integrated into his current research to develop a water quality monitoring and control system.

Mr. Ian Hastings has just graduated from University College Dublin.  Ian has been accepted the University of Chicago’s LLM where he intends to focus on constitutional and tort law.

Dr. Michael Geary is a Lecturer in History of European Integration at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.  He is Ireland’s first recipient of a Fulbright – Schuman Award that promotes research and teaching in EU – US Studies.

Ms. Mary Healy is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art at the University of Limerick.  Mary will conduct research at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut into the issue of female exclusion from the canon of French orientalism.

Dr. Peter Lonergan has recently completed his Basic Surgical Training with the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and is embarking on a period of research with a view to receiving a Doctor in Medicine.  During his Fulbright year at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Peter will study prostate cancer and the mechanisms by which prostate cancer cells survive following androgen ablation, the most common therapy for advanced prostate cancer.

Mr. Ronan McGovern is Ireland’s third recipient of the Fulbright International Science & Technology Award in four years.  Ronan has recently completed his B.A. in Engineering at UCD and will enrol on a fully funded Ph.D. in Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August 2010.

Dr. Mark McKinney is this year’s recipient of the Fulbright Irish Language Scholar Award.  A lecturer in Irish at Queen’s University Belfast, Mark will teach Irish at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and produce a comprehensive dictionary of modern Irish proverbs spanning the years 1856-1952.

Mr. Paul May is receiving the Fulbright – Enterprise Ireland Award in Science, Technology and Innovation. Paul received a BSc in Multimedia from Dublin City University and has been working in the field for 5 years.  Paul will study for a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications at the Tisch School of Arts in New York University.

Ms. Anna Moynihan is this year’s recipient of the Fulbright – Teagasc Award in Agriculture.  Anna is a Ph.D. candidate in Food Chemistry in University College Cork.  She will research the use of nanoparticles to improve the flavour and texture of low-fat cheddar cheese at the University of Wisconsin.

Ms. Sinead Murnane is the Fulbright – CRH Awardee in Business Studies.  A Ph.D. candidate in business at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Sinead will conduct research into management information and knowledge management systems at the Intermountain Institute for Health Care Delivery Research in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ms. Siobhán Ní Mhaolagáin has a Masters in Irish and Communications from UCD and has been a teaching Irish at UCD since 2008.  Siobhán will now teach Irish as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Lehman College, City University of New York in the Bronx.

Mr. Seán Ó Curraighín has recently completed his BA in Irish and Journalism from Dublin City University.  Seán will be a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dr. Felix Ó Murchadha is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland Galway.   Dr. Ó Murchadha will spend his Fulbright year at Fordham University, Bronx, New York teaching two courses and research the phenomenology of religion with a view to producing a monography examining whether phenomenology found in the work of Marion is an instance of “secular reason.”

Dr. Emilie Pine is a Lecturer in Modern Drama in the School of English, Drama and Film in University College Dublin.  As this year’s Fulbright Irish Studies Scholar at the University of California – Berkeley, Dr. Pine will teach a graduate seminar on Irish culture and conduct research towards a cultural history of Ireland in the 1930s.

Ms. Ciara Ryan holds Masters in Translation Studies from Dublin City University where she is currently employed as an Assistant Research Editor.  Ciara will be a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.