Arcadia Ireland

This Summer we welcome, with open arms, a nice group of UCD STEM Summer Research students back to Ireland! It has been a year and we have missed travelling on the journey of study abroad with wonderful people! A big part of our programming in Ireland…

It’s coming to the end of Lent so that means one thing- Easter Eggs! This Easter, as we approach a second one of being fully restricted in a lockdown Ireland, it seems there was never a greater need for something to take our minds off what is happening…

Following in the footsteps of my colleagues in Scotland and London, I wanted to also share feedback from an Alumni. The student recorded these videos shortly after arriving home from Ireland (following the official start of COVID-19 restrictions in March…

I think its fair to say that we could all use a little cheer in our lives these days! For me, one of the things that brings immense happiness is food! I just love reading recipe books, buying new foods that I haven’t bought before (most recently, meat…

To mark this celebration of Women all over the world and to highlight the Arcadia University commitment to addressing issues related to Race, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, I presented a virtual event last Friday evening. It focused on Irish Women…

This week, in an attempt to create some variety in my life and step away from my living room office and the sameness of everything, I decided to pack a bag with a laptop and a lunch and walk the 5km back into the Dublin Center! It was my first being there…

Yesterday on a College of Global Studies zoom call, a colleague mentioned that good news was almost difficult to absorb these days. He was of course putting this in context with all of the COVID updates we have been exposed to the last year. In Ireland…

Part of my daily routine involves researching things that may have an impact on our students in Ireland.  Along with my colleague Tom, we have been doing this for quite some time and the last few months, with no students on the ground, has been no exception…

In Ireland we have finally woken up after a cold dreary start to the month of January. We had what feels like the annual “cold snap” last week where snow and ice covered our roads, paths and mountains. Now it’s a new week and we are ready to look forward…