Dublin City University has honoured Mary with a posthumous DCU Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement in the area of Societal Impact. This is a very special recognition of Mary’s achievements by the university where she studied journalism, and where her archive has been deposited. The announcement was made in the week of the fifth anniversary of Mary’s death… Read more »
James Hayes, NUI Galway, wins €2000 top prize in science media competition Aoife Kearins, Trinity College Dublin, receives €500 judges’ highly commended award DUBLIN, 20 May 2020—NUI Galway student James Hayes is the 2020 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students that commemorates the legacy of science journalist and… Read more »
The Mary Mulvihill Association has extended the deadline for the 2020 Mary Mulvihill Award to midnight 30 April. Several prospective entrants had sought deadline extensions, due to disruptions in their study schedules and in their personal lives caused by the closure of universities and the need to relocate.
Launch of Science Media Competition for Third Level Students €2,000 Award for Best Work on the Theme, ‘Our scientific heritage’ 1 October 2019 The Mary Mulvihill Association is pleased to invite applications for the Mary Mulvihill Award 2020, which commemorates the work and legacy of science journalist, author and Ingenious Ireland founder Mary Mulvihill (1959-2015).… Read more »
DUBLIN, 23 May 2019 — Trinity College Dublin (TCD) PhD student Laura Katharine Finnegan is the 2019 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students that commemorates the legacy of science journalist and author Mary Mulvihill (1959–2015). This year’s competition invited entries on the theme of ‘Science for the love… Read more »
Podcast: A few short days now to the March 31st deadline for submissions for this year’s Mary Mulvihill Award of €2000. For tips on how to enter and an insight into Mary’s legacy, listen here to Anne Mulvhill and Karlin Lillington talking to Roisin Ingle. Earlier this month Mary Mulvihill’s sister Anne and her friend… Read more »
With the 31 March deadline for the 2019 Mary Mulvihill Award approaching, we discussed with the winner of the inaugural award, Irene Fogarty, how she approached her winning entry, and found inspiration in long-form journalism. Mary Mulvihill was a champion for the many Irish women who were written out of the history of science in… Read more »
Our inaugural Mary Mulvihill Awardee Irene Fogarty has won the 2018 Postgraduate AAAS Science & Human Rights Essay Prize. This a global competition and the AAAS is one of the world’s leading scientific societies. 56 students from 24 different countries entered the competition. The essays covered a wide range of topics at the intersection of science of… Read more »
Launch of Science Media Competition for Third Level Students with €2,000 Awarded for the Best Work on the Theme: ‘Science for the love of it’ Submission Deadline: Midnight Sunday 31 March 2019 DUBLIN—We are pleased to invite applications for the Mary Mulvihill Award 2019, which commemorates the work and legacy of science journalist, author and Ingenious Ireland… Read more »
DUBLIN, 23 May 2018—Trinity College Dublin (TCD) environmental science student Katie Carbonara is the 2018 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third level students that commemorates the legacy of science journalist and author Mary Mulvihill (1959–2015). Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, one of Ireland’s most respected living scientists, presented the award,… Read more »