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ENNIS native Professor Niamh Stack has recently been appointed as the new Head of Psychology at Mary Immaculate College (MIC). She takes up the position at an exciting time for the discipline at MIC as the college welcomes the first students on the new Bachelor of Science in Psychology this September. Professor Stack joins MIC following a two-decade long spell at Scotland’s University of Glasgow, where she latterly served as Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. Professor Stack’s research focuses predominantly on highly able young people but also includes a wider interest in all forms of difference and diversity in development and the important role psychology has to play at a societal level in issues around development, poverty and social justice. This interest led to important research collaborations with the Children’s Wood and G20 Youth Group charities in Glasgow and to long term volunteering roles within the British Psychological Society, where she is currently Chair of the Education and Training …

A BRIDGETOWN native has been involved in a major project to promote biodiversity and recreational amenities on the campus of Mary Immaculate College. Linda Treacy joined a team made up of members of LEAF Ireland and college staff to plant almost 100 native trees on the college grounds. Planting a ‘Choill Bheag’ on the grounds of Mary I will create a small, dense native woodland habitat for biodiversity and an educational and recreational resource for the whole college community to enjoy.  As part of the Choill Bheag project, Linda and fellow student teachers attended forest-based workshops in Coillte’s Curragh Chase Forest Park in Limerick. There, they were shown a variety of different ways that the outdoors can be used to educate children in all curricular areas.   This woodland habitat at Mary I will provide an on-site educational and recreational resource for the whole college community, enabling students to participate in programmes including Citizen Science, Woodland Skills, Nature Connection and Wellbeing. The woodland also links …

THE death occurred on Monday of the former president of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Professor Peadar Cremin, who played a pioneering role in the development of third level education in the Mid-West. A native of Kerry, Professor Cremin taught in Scoil Íosagáin, Farranree, Cork from 1969 to 1976.He joined the staff of Mary Immaculate College in 1976 as a lecturer in the Education Department. From 1978 to 1998, he lectured in Social and Environmental Studies and was responsible for the organisation of teaching practice. From 1994 to 1999, he was the Acting Head of Education. In 1999, Professor Cremin was appointed as the first lay president of the college in 101 years. Over the term of his presidency, the college community expanded dramatically with, by the time of his retirement in 2011, over 3,000 students enrolled on 30 different academic programmes at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. Professor Cremin contributed hugely to the development of the college, including the growth in student …