A week for the NICHE history books, when good things came in 3... big congrats again to Erika Rosbotham Bethany Duffy Emily on their success at viva!! 🌟🌟🌟 #ProudOfUU #NICHEphd

Was delighted to present on nutrition & dietetic therapy for Parkinson’s to the nutrition & dietetic masters, undergraduate & phD students NICHE & we had a little #dopaminedance for #WorldParkinsonsDay2024 PD Avengers Parkinson's Ireland Parkinson's UK Cure Parkinson's

Delighted to have Richelle Flanagan 💚💚💚💚 MyMovesMatter deliver a lecture to our final year #NICHE_fnd students on Nutrition and Parkinson’s on #WorldParkinsonsDay2024 we even did the #DopamineDance

Had a fabulous #dopaminedunk on Portstewart strand with Professor Helene McNulty, Director of NICHE for #WorldParkinsonsDay2024 almost 20 years from the day I graduated with an MSc in nutrition & dietetics from Ulster University, Coleraine 💙😍 Catherine Hughes Mary Ward

World Parkinson’s Day - great day to host #Food4PD start up meeting, our project investigating the effects of a functional food for people living with Parkinson’s Disease. Delighted to welcome our international team Richelle Flanagan 💚💚💚💚 Abc_Nutrition, Dr Fiona Lithander & Kieran Tuohyy

👏 #NICHEphd success for Emily today who defended her thesis at viva👏 Big thanks to the panel for the engaging discussions; Prof Prof Mairead Kiely, Dr Maeve Kerr & Prof Mary Ward! Proud supervisors Pamela Magee Emeir Mc Sorley Kirsty Pourshahidi Dr David J Armstrong #ProudOfUU #NICHEvitD

Staff @ulsterunibiomed enjoyed taking part in the UUC @ulsteruni Colour Run promoting student well-being, getting out in the great outdoors, and raising funds for the Friends of Cancer Centre. Well done everyone 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🌈 NICHE @ulstergenomics

📢 We have a job vacancy for a Temporary Technical Executive, Public Health Nutrition Policy

✍️ Tá folúntas poist againn i gcomhair Feidhmeannach Teicniúil Sealadach, Beartas Cothaithe Sláinte Poiblí

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#JobFairy #síognabpost

Great opportunity available in FoodSafetyAuthority #Dublin which may be of interest to our recent/upcoming graduates #jobfairy 👇

So delighted for you Erika Rosbotham 🙌 you did a fantastic job at viva & its been a pleasure to have been part of your PhD journey... some really exciting research papers to come from your PhD as well 🐷🌟 thanks to DAERA for supporting Erika's PhD 🙏

📣2nd #NICHE_PhD success of the day🥳Congrats to Dr Bethany Duffy who successfully completed her #PhD viva on #Riboflavin & #B -vits in pregnancy: #B P #anaemia & #offspring health 📕Thanks to PhD supervisors + panel Prof Mairead Kiely, Dr Leane Hoey & Prof Alison Gallagher 👏👏👏

👏 #NICHEphd success for Erika Rosbotham today who defended her thesis at viva👏 Big thanks to the panel for the engaging discussions; Prof Tom Hill, Dr Caomhán Logue & Prof Mary Ward! Proud supervisor Kirsty Pourshahidi there on behalf of the #BioDProject team #ProudOfUU #NICHEagri

‼️🍊 Bioavailability study 🍊 ‼️
 
We are looking for healthy adults AND ileostomates to consume a single glass of orange juice
 
£100 will be given to everyone who completes the study.

Interested? Please complete the screening questionnaire (➡️ redcap.link/orangut)

🧑‍🏫Are you a parent/guardian, teacher or club/camp leader living on the island or Ireland?
We'd like your views on food messaging for children & adolescents.
Please share or complete survey link (takes 10 minutes): forms.office.com/e/B6nctYKLqC

Congratulations to Dr Catherine Hughes for winning the Distinguished Research Faculty Award for her research in #nutrition and healthy #ageing & the #TUDA project

Congratulations to Prof Emeir McSorley for winning the Excellence in PhD Research Supervision Faculty Award. Delighted to see all Emeir’s hard work and support for her PhD researchers being recognised in this way 🥳🏆📕👩‍🎓

Congratulation to Prof Helene Mc Nulty, Prof Kristina Pentieva, Prof Mary Ward, Dr Rachelle Irwin, Dr Aoife Caffrey and Dr Diane Lees-Murdock for winning the Outstanding External Collaborative Research Team Award 🥇 for their EpiBrain project with colleagues from Spain & Canada

We are absolutely delighted to see such a strong representation from NICHE in the Research Excellence Awards 2024, winning across 3 different categories.

Congratulations to all the winners we are so proud of you.

Details on specific awards to follow📣🏆🥇🥇🥇

Thanks to Life & Health Sci for facilitating a Research Leadership Development Day... inspiring each other across the faculty about how we inspire others as leaders in #science #BRAVE

Great to see everyone at JClub today! Huge thanks to Dr Fahad Ahmed DVM, PhD for a fantastic talk on One Health in the control of various diseases. Thanks also to the Student Wellbeing team who came along and got us thinking about our own #wellbeing through their flag making activity!