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Student David McClure and NUIG alumni Aoife Hanrahan made history in Paris on Saturday when they won gold and bronze at the European freestyle kayak championships. In doing so they helped the Irish team to its best performance at an international competition.

A junior doctor and a speech and language therapist have been awarded gold medals for civic engagement by NUI Galway.

NUI Galway has announced the appointment of the University’s first ever Irish Language Officer. Caroline Ní Fhlatharta, a native speaker from Connemara, takes up the role at the end of the month. She joined NUI Galway more than 16 years ago and has worked in various roles, including in Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge.

Almost 100 online booths are being set up for students to put NUI Galway academics and staff on the spot during the university's autumn undergraduate open day.

NUI Galway Students’ Union this morning launched the Walktober Step Challenge to encourage staff and students to walk and build up to 10,000 steps per day by the end of October.

NUI Galway is preparing to welcome a record intake of 3,500 first year students from Monday, with a special orientation programme running at the university this weekend to help the students adjust to college life.

The Centre for Adult Learning and Professional Development at NUI Galway offers a series of eight-week, non-accredited online evening courses in a number of different subject areas such as Art History, Languages, Irish History, Cinema, Literature, Poetry, Wine Appreciation and many more!

As students return to Galway for the start of the academic year, the NUI Galway Students’ Union are distributing free masks to students on behalf of the university.

NUI Galway’s societies were the big winners at this year’s Board of Irish College Societies (BICS) Awards, taking home seven awards. BICS is a national organisation that was founded in 1995 and whose role is to provide a national forum for the societies in Ireland’s universities, colleges, and institutes of education.

NUI Galway’s Access Programmes, which have been supporting students from backgrounds traditionally under-represented at third level education for more than 20 years, has announced that applications for this year’s Access Programme for School Leavers opens on August 1.