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Bright students heading for the US


Five Clare students will be heading to the United States after being honoured with Fulbright Awards.

Brendan Cleary, Síle Concannon, Dr Áine Kelly, Dr Triona McGrath and Jonathan O’Neill were presented with the awards at an event in Dublin last week, which was sponsored by a US Fulbright alumnus, Dr Jack Pinkowski and his wife, Monica Pinkowski, as part of The Gathering.

Since 1957, the Fulbright Awards are given annually by the Irish and US governments and provide Irish students, scholars and professionals with the opportunity to study, lecture and research at top universities and institutions throughout the US.

A native of Knockerra, Brendan Cleary is this year’s Fulbright-Enterprise Ireland Student awardee. As part of his PhD research at the Dublin Energy Lab in Dublin Institute of Technology, he will research the potential economic benefits of wind power and large-scale energy storage at the Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University.

Ms Concannon holds a Masters in Irish from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. Originally from Moveen, near Kilkee, Síle will be a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the University of Montana.

Dr Kelly is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin.
She will undertake research on Stanley Cavell and Contemporary American Fiction as part of her Fulbright Scholar Award at The New School, New York.

Dr Triona McGrath from Ennis is the Fulbright-Marine Institute Scholar awardee. She will go to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego to research ocean acidification in coastal water environments.

Mr O’Neill is a PhD candidate at the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University. Originally from Kilmurry, he will be a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Drew University and New York University.

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