🚨 Breaking News 🚨 GMIT has been awarded 'Institute of Technology of the Year' by The
Sunday Times Good University Guide today.
This recognition highlights the huge commitment of all our staff who consistently strive for
excellence in all areas. See
**Breaking news** GMIT's Ivan McPhillips has just been announced as this year’s winner of the Enterprise Ireland
#Academic
#Award
in recognition of his involvement and promotion of the Student Entrepreneur Awards competition. Congrats Ivan 👏🏆🤗
#student
#entrepreneurs
@Entirl
#GMITnews
Dr Orla Flynn takes over as GMIT President amidst COVID fight. Operations focusing on protecting public health while ensuring continuity of education provision online
#COVIDHigherEducation
@OrlaFlynnGMIT
John and Sally McKenna with Cait Noone, Head of School, GMIT Galway International School, as they prepare to receive an
#Honorary
#Fellowship
for their contribution to the food industry in Ireland
#GMITgrad
@McKennasGuides
#GMITnews
Newest TU name unveiled - Atlantic Technological University. GMIT, IT Sligo, and LYIT (CUA) are set to become Atlantic Technological University in Spring 2022
#AtlanticTechnologicalUniversity
#ATU
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Retired GMIT language lecturer Anne Brindley is awarded the prestigious 'Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes académiques' by the French Government
#French
#education
#language
#culture
Congratulations Anne 👏
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Warmest congrats to Cait Noone, Head of GMIT International Hotel School & VP of International Engagement - Awarded Fellowship of
@IHI_Ireland
this evening! SO well earned 👏🎉👏
#GMITnews
GMIT has been awarded funding from the Irish Research Council to develop an exciting marine science outreach project on
#ethical
#taxidermy
The project will merge art with science to highlight the challenges facing seabirds. See
COVID-19: Message for students from Dr Orla Flynn, GMIT President 📣
A message for
#students
from our new President with important updates about exams, and for repeat, postgrad and international students
@GMITSU
#IrelandVsCOVID
#COVIDHigherEducation
Congratulations to GMIT's
@CaitNoone
who featured as one of the 50 Heroines of the Irish Food Scene in yesterday's
@IrishTimes
👏👏👏 A richly deserved accolade 😁
🎦Watch and Share! GMIT’s choir has just released a beautiful performance of 'Oh Holy Night' as its Christmas Charity single - 🎶🎅😍🎄
The choir has chosen
@GalwayHospice
as its charity partner, in memory of GMIT colleague and choir member Trish Carrick
Dr Heather Lally and Dr Ian McLoughlin from GMIT School of Science and Computing - recipients of this year's "Presidents Award for Teaching Excellence". Congrats from all your colleagues in GMIT
#GMITgrad
#Galway
#GMITScience
#GMITnews
GMIT is delighted to announce it has been awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award for the extensive work undertaken in recent years to advance gender equality for staff and students
#AthenaSWAN
#teamGMIT
#gender
#equality
See
#GMITnews
GMIT lecturer Ivan McPhillips wins Enterprise Ireland Academic Award recognising his dedication to promoting entrepreneurship to students.
@Entirl
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GMIT staff are producing and delivering vital
#equipment
and
#PPE
materials for health care workers in hospitals, pharmacies, GP surgeries and care settings across the West, in the race to stop the spread of COVID-19
#COVIDHigherEducation
See
Our annual Scholarships Ceremony has just started!
Tonight, we are awarding 90
#Scholarships
to students in a virtual ceremony in recognition of their academic, sporting, personal and cultural achievements.
Congratulations all 👏👏👏
#GMITnews
GMIT adopts new plan to promote and support biodiversity conversation, from wild-flower meadows and living classrooms to working towards National Park City status for Galway 🌺🌳🦋🐝
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#biodiversity
#Sustainability
⏰ When the days disappear from your Countdown Clock, you know it is close! Tomorrow, we become Atlantic Technological University with
@itsligo
and
@LYIT
😁
#BecomingAtlanticTU
Galway goalkeeper and GMIT student Sarah Healy gets some practice in with GMIT President Dr Orla Flynn before Sunday’s All Ireland Senior Camogie Final
#Galway
Vs
#Cork
!!
We’ll be cheering you on Sarah!
#GMITFalcons
#teamGMIT
*** Safe Return to Campus***
We are really looking forward to welcoming students on campus again and have posted an update for students in the thread below 👇
***Breaking News*** We did it!! Our Christmas Charity single is No. 1 in the Irish iTunes Christmas Charts!!!!!!! Thank YOU - all proceeds to
@GalwayHospice
Download here for just 99c -
Thank you to this incredible team who made sure all the livestreams, AV and video for the launch of
@atu_ie
ran smoothly today 👏👏👏
#AtlanticTU
#GalwayCity
Congratulations to our neighbours
@UniOfGalway
on their new name and wonderful new brand identity! What an exciting year for Higher Education in the region. Gaillimh Abu 👏
#UniversityofGalway
#GMITnews
GMIT awarded €4.7m for 25 upskilling and graduate conversion courses under the HEA’s Springboard+2020 and Human Capital Initiative (HCI). Free and subsidised undergraduate & postgraduate courses in Business, ICT and STEM
#upskill
#reskill
See
Engineering hope: GMIT team making PPE masks.
"As Brian de Souza's wife told him how a friend working in a pharmacy had rung her in despair about having no personal protective equipment (PPE), he was already thinking about what he could do to help"
See
#GMITnews
'GMIT Project Visor' has resulted in over 10,000 face shields being supplied to healthcare settings. It was led by two
#engineering
lecturers and involved over 170 staff members, family and friends who volunteered to help 💪
#COVIDHigherEd
See
#Welcome
#Students
! This video will give you an idea what to expect for the 2020/21 academic year 🙂
We’re delighted to be able to welcome many students back to our five campuses, and have done lots of work to help keep you safe
#COVIDHigherEducation
#GMITnews
GMIT offers new MSc in Design and Innovation (Webinar 28 May). This master's degree was co-designed with industry and will suit employees in the MedTech, Technology, Manufacturing, & Services sectors. See
Happy 80th birthday to our wonderful
@PresidentIRL
and GMIT Fellow, President Michael D Higgins. Congratulations and thank you for being such a strong supporter of GMIT and education in the West of Ireland 🙏
(📷 GMIT Honorary Fellowships 2013, and visits to GMIT Letterfrack)
The Presidents of
@GMITOfficial
,
@itsligo
&
@LYIT
, along with students & staff of the three Institutes, talk about what the new TU will mean for the West & North West region, showcasing our campus facilities, student experience and the opportunities available to all.
#CUAAlliance
A huge THANK YOU to the students and staff of
@GMITHotel
who provided some incredible canapés and cupcakes for the launch of
@atu_ie
in ATU Galway City campus yesterday 👏🥰😋
Today's fifth story highlighting GMIT's
#WomenInResearch
for
#IWD2019
- Dr Heather Lally, Principal Investigator from the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre (MFRC) – using drones to test water quality
#BalanceforBetter
#GMITnews
GMIT Science & Computing lecturer Dr Cormac Quigley wins "Best Use of Education Technology" at the Education Awards 2019. His innovative lightboard studio allows lecturers move their blackboard work into an online setting
#education
#innovation
A historic day for us as we officially become the Atlantic Technological University!
Follow along on
@atu_ie
as we roll out the vision and mission of
#AtlanticTU
!
#GMITnews
CUA partners GMIT, LYIT and IT Sligo welcome €5.7m allocated under the HEA Technological University Transformation Fund to support the development of a
#Technological
#University
for the West and North-West of Ireland
See
#GMITnews
GMIT science student Tamara Jordan from Bohola, Co Mayo wins top award at national SURE conference for her research on the safety of daily use cosmetics
#SURE20
#Science
#Cosmetics
See
#GMITnews
GMIT staff member Kelly Roberts is making hundreds of reusable face coverings for nursing homes while continuing to provide technical support to students on GMIT's BA in Design and homeschooling her two children.
#COVIDHigherEducation
See
Our President Dr Orla Flynn and Vice President for Research and Innovation Dr Rick Officer are both braving the elements this Friday in aid of
@COPEGalway
☔🌨️ ❄️
#homelessness
#sleepout
Please donate if you can at
As the sun sets on
#Galway
Bay, we'd like to thank
@SimonHarrisTD
, his team and party colleagues for taking the time to meet our students, staff, and researchers today 🙏😁
#GMITnews
GMIT launches three new postgraduate courses in Applied Leadership and Management.
Courses will commence online delivery from GMIT Mayo campus in January 2021
#onlinelearning
#HR
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GMIT welcomes Dr Richard Thorn as interim Head of the Mayo Campus and Kieran Mulvey as facilitator as per the recommendations in the HEA report addressing the sustainability of the Mayo campus
#Mayo
(Pictured: Kieran Mulvey - 2nd from left, Dr Richard Thorn - 7th from left)
#jobfairy
Our friends in the HSE are looking for staff to work in a new
#Contact
#Tracing
centre in Galway. There are both clinical and non-clinical roles, and the jobs are full-time with an immediate start. This may be of interest to our graduates & community
#COVID19
#StaySafe
Pls share! This is Lynne O'Loughin from
@GMIT_CCAM
who will be running a half marathon tomorrow while pushing her 5-year old triplets!! 🏃♀️ It is a fundraiser to provide nursing homes with tablets so residents can communicate with loved ones💕
#fundraiser
Marie Finnegan from
@GMITOfficial
School of Business writes in today's Galway Advertiser about rising Irish inflation and whether it will prompt the ECB to raise interest rates. See the article here:
Today's the day! We would like to wish our colleagues in the hospitality industry in Ireland the best of luck as they reopen today.
We are so grateful for everything you do to support our students. Welcome back 🤗
#tourism
#hospitality
#LeavingCert2021
Atlantic Technological University (ATU), which will be established on 1 April 2022, is seeking to appoint its inaugural President.
#President
#AtlanticTU
For details see
Really looking forward to welcoming the French Ambassador to GMIT for this Franco-Irish culinary event on Thursday! Thank you
@TheSundayIndo
for the mention :)
#GoodFrance
#GoutdeFrance
#GMITnews
GMIT Mayo lecturer awarded prestigious Fulbright TechImpact Scholarship
Dr Seamus Dowling will attend the University of Texas to extend his research into the application of machine learning into cybersecurity infrastructure
#CyberSecurity
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