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Cork Institute of Technology Public Lecture: Prof Gerard Whyte will give a talk entitled The Role of Litigation in Promoting Social Inclusion today at 3pm in the College Theatre, Cork Institute of Technology.

Prof Whyte will focus on the issue of using the law to obtain social rights and the provision of appropriate resources for excluded groups, together with the promotion of social inclusion. All are welcome to attend.

UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies Information Morning

UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies will hold an information morning on its MA in American studies tomorrow at 11am in the William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium.

Students will hear about the courses on offer and have a chance to meet and chat with both lecturers and current MA students. To register, contact Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie or tel: 01-7161560.

UCD Humanities Institute Lecture

Eminent literary theoretician Professor Wolfgang Iser will deliver a lecture entitled Erasing narration: Samuel Beckett's 'Malone Dies' and 'Texts for Nothing' at the UCD Humanities Institute on Thursday, March 9th at 5pm. For more information tel: 01-7164690 or see www.ucd.ie/hii.

DIT's Graduate Business School MBA Information Evening

DIT's Graduate Business School is hosting an MBA information evening from 6.30pm to 8pm on Tuesday, March 14th in DIT Aungier Street. Contact Eimear Dunne, MBA programme manager, on tel: 01-402 3033 or by e-mail at eimear.dunne@dit.ie to reserve a place. For more information, see www.dit.ie

Call for Cancer Research Proposals

Cancer Research Ireland invites applications from suitably qualified, interested parties for grants for the period October 2006 to September 2007.

The grants are for one year, renewable to a maximum of three, and are allocated on the basis of a competitive peer-review process. Applications from investigators in any of the disciplines of cancer research are eligible for consideration.

For the 2006 competition there are two strands. Strand 1 invites applications from collaborating scientists and clinicians with a special emphasis on translational aspects of cancer research are particularly welcome. There will be multiple awards under this strand. Strand 2 - Additional funding may also be available for a single Blue Skies Project. A successful project under this alternative scheme will not just add to current knowledge but will be a "breakthrough" idea or concept relevant to cancer research. There may be funding for a single exceptional project under this strand. Investigators may submit only one proposal under each strand.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Wednesday, April 12th. Grant proposals must be submitted online at www.cancer.ie/cri.

Córfhéile na Scoileanna Áth Cliath 2006

Córfhéile na Scoileanna Áth Cliath, the biggest non-competitive music festival for schoolchildren in Ireland continues every evening this week until Friday, starting at 7.45pm in the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght. There will also be three matinee performances today, tomorrow and on Friday at 10.30am.

More information from John Gearty, tel: 087-1311789 or Joe Johnston, tel: 087-9828769

UCC Postgraduate Diploma in Guidance and Counselling

The UCC postgraduate diploma in guidance and counselling is a one-year, full-time training course. Applications for 2006-2007 are now being sought. Further information at www.pac.ie (course code CKC02).

IT Sligo Archaeology Lectures

Prof Peter Woodman from the Department of Archaeology, UCC, will deliver a lecture on Ireland's Earliest Inhabitants, discussing hunter-gatherer communities of the Mesolithic period (7,000 to 4,000 BC) on Friday, March 10th at 8pm in lecture theatre A0004 in the main administration (entrance) building of IT Sligo.

Prof Woodman returns on Monday, March 13th at 10am in C1004 in the business block to give a talk entitled Mesolithic middens ... hmmmm ... maybe where he will explore evidence for the occurrence of shell middens right through to the Medieval period.

For further information contact Dr Marion Dowd on tel: 071-9155255, e-mail: dowd.marion@itsligo.ie

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