Arcadia Ireland

Today, Arcadia in Dublin welcomed its first Fall 2021 student for the Semester. This Northwestern student will attend Trinity College Dublin for a Semester start programme. She arrives ahead of our University of Limerick group on Saturday and has a chance…

We are so excited to see so many of our Fall 2021 students already sign up for our Co-Curricular Events!  Our innovative co-curricular activities in Ireland derive from the themes below: Active Ireland - From hill walking to bog treks to the fastest…

What a great day yesterday was! As we come to the end of our UCD STEM Summer Research programme, we wanted to give the group a good send off!  The day started with a trip out to UCD to meet with the students and view their poster presentations.  Twelve…

I remember an article I read a few years ago and one of the takeaways from it was the key question of “What do you want to be remembered for when you die”? This raised so much in my mind around the things I wanted to do, the places I wanted to see, the…

We were delighted to recently see that one of the projects from a current UCD STEM Summer research student made Irish national news! Faith Kurtz from Michigan State University is involved in a project that as a whole is to tag the fallow deer fawns at…

Something that helped me through almost three lockdowns in Ireland was finding ways to be grateful and be happy. For many months across the globe, we were faced with grim updates on the pandemic and restrictions on travel. In Ireland, we could barely…

Tom and I were delighted to officially welcome our twelve UCD STEM Summer Research students last night over dinner! What an enjoyable evening it was and a reminder that Zoom will never ever replace the joy of in- person human contact! It was also wonderful…

  I'm always looking for free and new things to do in Dublin City. Weekends need to be planned these days as places are still restricting visits and crowds, etc. This week I thought I would plan something Pride related. I miss the anticipation and…

We are so excited to welcome our UCD STEM Summer students to Ireland! Their first few days have been a combination of getting set up with phones and meetings as well as quarantining! They have just arrived on time for some additional restrictions to be…