Irish playwright among NUIG honorees
Galway Bay fm newsroom - Playwright Enda Walsh is among those who will be conferred with Honorary degrees at NUIGalway today. (Fri June 14)
A Degree of Doctor of Literature will be presented to Enda Walsh, while Doctor of Science Degrees will be conferred on Leonard Moran and Dr.
Enda Walsh is a multi-award winning Irish playwright, whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages.
Dr. Rita Colwell is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and at John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Leonard Moran is a biomedical industry entrepreneur based in Ballina, who founded Ovagen, the world's first economically sustainable producers of germ-free eggs and antibodies.
President of NUIG, Dr. James Browne, will confer the degrees at a ceremony at the Bailey Allen Hall at NUIG at noon today.