IRISH scientists gather in Trabolgan, Co Cork, this weekend for the annual science summer school. The theme of the Stoney Summer School is the future of Irish research in Europe. The school commemorates the Irish scientist who named the electron, George Johnstone Stoney.
Speakers will include key EU policy advisers, the president of the Finnish academy, and Prof Dervilla Donnelly (UCD), who is vice president of the European Science Foundation.
At today's meeting, the Irish Research Scientists' Association will also award its first Medal for Excellence in Research to UCC's Prof Tom Cotter, for what the IRSA describes as his "world class research" into why some cells self destruct.