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Sep 13, 2023 23 tweets 3 min read
💙💛 Top European teaching prize awarded to "innovative and inclusive" UCD lecturer

🏆 Warmest congratulations to Dr Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, who has been awarded the twelfth annual European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities by @ceu 🧵👇 Dr Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila being handed his award by an unnamed person. One of Europe’s top teaching awards has been presented to a lecturer at University College Dublin for their “innovative and inclusive” approach to education.
Jun 17, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
🌳🚍 Thousands of trees may face the chop to accommodate BusConnects routes

➡️ bit.ly/ucdtreecount

🗺 @UCD_Geography Associate Prof Gerald Mills has found that there are more than 4,700 trees growing within a 20m wide corridor along the 16 bus routes earmarked 🌳🚍 "The public have seen differing news reports of the estimated loss of trees along the routes. The National Transport Authority has still not given us any specifics on the trees to be cut down.”

- Associate Prof Gerald Mills, @UCD_Geography