An interview ( YouTube ) from 1973 with our very own Prof. Niall O Murchadha as a then Post-Doctroral Student at Princeton. This excerpt is taken from an Oscar winning documentary entitled "Princeton: A Search for Answers," 1973. For more information on the documentary see here
Congratulations to our most recent graduate Dr. Anna Hourihane who successfuly defended her thesis entitled "Optical and X-ray studies of globular cluster cataclysmic variables and ultracompact binaries"
Check out the interview on the UCCIreland channel on YouTube
Col. Shane Kimbrough, a current NASA astronaut paid a visit to the Crawford Observatory today as part of his whirlwind tour of Cork. A group of lucky undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as staff members, crammed into the observatory for an intimate Q\&A session. Shane's tip of the day was "to pursue whatever is your passion, you never know where it will lead".
[Photo credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center]
Owen McConnell, recent graduate of Queen's University Belfast, has joined the group as a PhD student. The focus of his thesis will be on the mass determinations of primary stars in cataclysmic variables.
New website design launched by Dan Hurley. Thanks to Dr. Thomas Busch of the Ultracold Quantum Gases Group here at U.C.C. for kindly letting us use his design as a template.
