Talented undergraduate students pursuing an Honours Degree Programme, who wish to experience what university research is like are invited to apply for the SPUR Programme.

This programme is intended to give undergraduate students a taste of what university research is like, to expose students to the research undertaken in the university and to the benefits of postgraduate research study at NUI Maynooth.

Each intern will be paid a stipend of €250 (tax-free) per week for research projects (See below for AFF Projects) lasting between four to eight weeks between 1st June 2009 and 31st August 2009. All programme participants will be required to submit a final report in the last week of their project.

Undergraduate student applicants from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline: Friday 8th May 2009

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Dr Victor Lazzarini, Senior Lecturer in Music in NUI Maynooth and currently on sabbatical as an An Foras Feasa secondee for this semester, is launching a new audio CD on

Thursday 7th May at 6.30pm in the Goethe Institute, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

Voices Inside comprises the first CD release of electroacoustic and live-electronic works by
Irish based Brazilian composer Victor Lazzarini. The album contains a variety of music, ranging from vocal explorations to a Jazz-inspired eulogy to John Coltrane. These works portray, mosaic-like, the eclectic nature of Lazzarini's compositions, a meeting point of various musical streams and interests; the contemporary and the ancient, the technological and the primeval.

There will be a concert at the event, with a multichannel diffusion of some of the composer's
latest music for fixed support, some of which has been included in the CD.

All are very welcome to come along! Light refreshments will be served.

For more information please contact Farpoint Recordings at 086 412 7200
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An Foras Feasa is pleased to announce the availability of John and Pat Hume Scholarships for 2009. Applications are welcome from all disciplines in the Faculty of Arts and in Computer Science for the An Foras Feasa Scholarship and applications are welcome from candidates wishing to work in the field of digital humanities and literary studies, and/or cultural studies, and/or media studies for the An Foras Feasa/School of English, Media and Theatre Studies Scholarship. Closing date is Friday, 29th May 2009.

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An Foras Feasa is pleased to announce the introduction of a summer research fellowship in La Muse Writers' & Artists’ Retreat, La Montagne Noire, Southern France. The fellowship is open to all members of An Foras Feasa from its participating institutions and is designed to support an artistic project which would benefit from the resources of La Muse.

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