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ICUF Scholars Comments Dr. Niall English: Chemical Engineering UCD 2007  I was very grateful to receive the research visit award from the Ireland Canada University Foundation, as it allowed me to spend several weeks in the Summer of 2007 working with Prof. John Tse and his group at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Prof. Tse is a prominent international figure in quantum-based Density Functional Theory (DFT), and the ICUF scheme afforded me a unique and wonderful opportunity to hone my skills in this area, by carrying out DFT simulations of water, ice, titania and hydrogen hydrate. I also commenced work during my visit on a collaboration with Prof. Tse in modelling thermal conduction in a variety of methane hydrates using classical molecular dynamics. This collaboration has been very fruitful during 2007-08, resulting in a joint conference paper at the International Conference on Gas Hydrates (Vancouver, July 2008), and also in a journal paper to be submitted during 2008. Our collaboration is ongoing with Prof. Tse visiting me in May 2008, when we continued our joint research on hydrate thermal conductivity and also planned to analyse dynamical thermal properties in other materials of interest. The ICUF research visit scheme is an excellent programme, and I shall always be grateful to it for facilitating active, interesting and productive links between myself and Prof. Tse and his colleagues in Canada. Dr Stefan Kraan: Manager, Irish Seaweed Centre in NUIG  Due to receiving the ICUF award in 2007 I was not only able to learn all facets of integrated multitrophic aquaculture and the Canadian seaweed industry, it also helped me to establish valuable linkages and contacts in Canada. This was especially important while organizing an international conference on applied phycology in Galway Ireland in 2008 as it allowed me to invite Prof Thierry Chopin of the University of New Brunswick as guest speakers and initiated other cooperative projects. It also allowed us to bring in sponsoring money from a seaweed company Acadian Seaplants in Nova Scotia and have several delegates attending the conference from Acadian. Furthermore it has also initiated a funded counter visit by the University of PEI for me to travel to Charlottes town in September 2008 and present an invited talk on the Irish Seaweed Industry. So many linkages and cooperative work has come out of my ICUF award for which I am still very grateful Nancy Hansen, PhD, Director, Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies in University of Manitoba  Subsequent to the ICUF award in 2006 I began researching and collaborating with Dr. Myrtle, Queen’s University Belfast (following the sudden tragic demise of Dr. Professor Eithne McLaughlin). We have established contacts at several key cultural museums and centres. We have developed and presented three papers on disability history in Ireland and Canada at International Conferences on History, Irish Canadian Studies and Disability Studies. We have developed a 3rd year Disability and Society Module to be taught at QUB beginning September 2008. Catherine Frost, Associate Professor, Political Science in McMaster University  The ICUF scholarship in 2005 was key to developing my project on social change and national identity in Canada and Ireland, which recently received a major Canadian research award. I am more certain than ever that these two countries have a great deal to learn from each other, and that building research networks between them is the key to sharing learning and insight. Kevin James, Associate Professor, Department of History in University of Guelph  My research in Ireland, supported by Scotiabank through the ICUF in 2004, was critical to my early development as a scholar of Irish economic and social history. I was able to spend a long period in archives, converse with other scholars, and further a research programme that later received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The ICUF provided the most important support I received in my early years as a scholar, and I am grateful for the opportunity it provided me to develop valuable contacts with Irish historians during my research trip in 2004.
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