Trinity College Dublin Students Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Awards
Posted on: 18 July 2013
Three Trinity College Dublin students and three Trinty graduates were recently honoured with Fulbright Awards. The Trinity students were among 37 Fulbright awardees officially announced at an event held on The World cruise ship, which was sponsored by a U.S. Fulbright alumnus, as part of The Gathering on July 12th last.
Since 1957, the Fulbright Awards are awarded annually by the Irish and U.S. governments and provide Irish and American students, scholars, and professionals with the opportunity to study, lecture, and research at top universities and institutions throughout the Ireland and the United States respectively. The awards are jointly funded by the Irish and US governments under the Ireland-United States (Fulbright) Commission for Educational Exchange.
The six Trinity College Dublin recipients were Síobhra Aiken, Brendan Cleary, Anne Graham Cagney, Ferenc Jári, Réamonn Mac Réamoinn and Marguerite Nyhan.
The Trinity awardees pictured at the Fulbright Scholar’s Dinner at Dublin Castle, L-R: Brendan Cleary, Marguerite Nyhan, Ferenc Jari, Siobhra Aiken, Reamonn Mac Reamoinn, Anne Graham Cagney.
Síobhra Aiken has just completed a B.A. in European Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Síobhra will be a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Elms College in Massachusetts.
Ferenc Jári is a Fulbright Student Awardee who recently completed his LL.B. in Law and French at Trinity College Dublin. He will complete a LL.M. at Harvard University, specializing in International and Comparative Law.
Marguerite Nyhan is the Fulbright-Environmental Protection Agency Student Awardee. As a current PhD candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, Marguerite will explore urban sustainability related to environmental pollution and human health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Brendan Cleary is this year’s Fulbright-Enterprise Ireland Student Awardee and he holds a Masters in Civil Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. As part of his PhD research at the Dublin Energy Lab, Brendan will research the potential economic benefits of wind power and large scale energy storage at the Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University.
Dr Anne Graham Cagney holds a PhD in Business from Trinity College Dublin. She will lecture and research on how American transformative learning theory and practice can inform professional education development programs in Ireland while at the University of South Florida and the University of Georgia.
Réamonn Mac Réamoinn is the Fulbright-CRH Student Awardee who holds a Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. Utilizing his experience as a Senior Engineer with Roughan and O’Donovan in the design of roads and bridges both in Ireland and abroad, Réamonn plans to complete a Masters in Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University with a special focus on the behavior of long-span bridges under the influence of wind.
This year’s Fulbright Awardees, from fourteen Irish higher educational institutions, will travel to the four corners of America on their awards, from Rice University in Texas to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. to Oregon State University. Later in the year the Commission will welcome 13 US Fulbright recipients to Ireland.
Speaking at the launch of this year’s Fulbright Awards, Chair of the Fulbright Commission Board, Mr Patrick McDermott said, “year after year, the Fulbright Awards attract Ireland’s top researchers, professionals, and graduates. With the breadth and expertise seen in this year’s winners, I know that these current and future leaders will gain invaluable experience that they can share upon their return to Ireland.”
Fulbright Awards Competition 2013-2014 will open to applicants on Monday August 28th, 2013.