Thu, 04/29/2021 - 7:00am
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art (MECA) is pleased to announce the 2021 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis Exhibition opening on Saturday, May 15. The MFA Thesis Exhibition will be on view from May 15 through June 11.
This year’s exhibition features work in a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, painting, ceramics, photography, and installation. Seen together, these thesis projects hybridize a range of conceptual themes and material approaches as they relate to visual culture, the political landscape and to contemporary art practice. The work in the exhibition represents the synthesis of each graduate candidate’s experience in the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program at Maine College of Art.
April 21, 2021 1:01 pm
Both Northern Ireland and the Republic have joined an international research network which aims to make European dairy farms more resilient.
R4D (Resilience for Dairy) is one of the most recent European projects to contribute to the social, economic and environmental development of dairy farming.
The project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, was launched in January 2021.
The project will run for three years and involve 18 organisations from 15 countries, including Germany, Poland, France, Denmark, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Hungary and Finland.
Northern Ireland will be represented by AgriSearch and Teagasc will represent the Republic of Ireland.
Dairy resilience
As the follow-up project to EuroDairy, R4D aims to strengthen the exchange between farmers, researchers and relevant actors of the dairy sector, with the intention of creating better solutions of some of dairy farming’s biggest challenges.
February 27, 2021 10:00 am
Jason Rankin (right), general manager of AgriSearch congratulates Dr. David Johnston (left) on the successful completion of his PhD
An industry-funded PhD scholar is set to share the findings of his studies in a webinar next Monday.
The event hosted by AgriSearch, CAFRE, AFBI and DAERA is titled ‘Home-grown proteins and their use in dairy cow diets’ and will take place on Monday, March 8 at 7:30pm.
Dr. David Johnston’s PhD studentship was jointly funded by DAERA and AgriSearch and was jointly supervised by Queen’s University Belfast and AFBI.
AgriSearch general manager Jason Rankin said: “I would like to congratulate David on the successful completion of his PhD.
Toa55/iStock/Thinkstock. New approach will involve use of mass spectrometry to develop a rapid diagnosis of mastitis directly from a suspected milk sample.
Jan 22, 2021
A research project to tackle bovine mastitis and reduce the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in dairy cattle, the widescale use of which can contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is being launched by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast in partnership with AgriSearch and the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI).
The new approach will involve the use of mass spectrometry – an analytical method using sophisticated laboratory equipment – to develop a rapid diagnosis of mastitis directly from a suspected milk sample. This will initially use laboratory-based equipment but could potentially be translated to an on-site test to further increase test turnaround times.