UCD Receives Large Donation of NMR Equipment

Senator Dr Edward Haughey, Founder and Chairman of Norbrook Laboratories, has made a donation of £300,000 to University College Dublin for the purchase of High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometers. The equipment will be located in the NMR Centre in the Department of Chemistry. UCD President, Dr Art Cosgrove, will host a reception on Thursday 30th November 2000, at 12.30pm to thank Senator Haughey for his generous gift and to officially open the 'Senator Edward Haughey Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratories'. The reception will be on the 3rd Floor of the Chemistry Department in the Science Building and Senator Edward Haughey will unveil a plaque to mark the occasion.

Pictured above: Senator Dr. Edward Haughey 
and UCD President Dr Art Cosgrove

The Department of Chemistry at UCD is the largest of its kind in Ireland and has over one hundred postgraduate students. This donation will enable the Department to make significant improvements in the facilities offered to undergraduate and postgraduate students. With over thirty years experience in the operation of such equipment, the Chemistry Department is now the best
equipped and most experienced NMR laboratory in Ireland.

Above; Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Dr. Ken Glass 
and Senator Dr. Edward Haughey

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is an essential diagnostic and analytical tool in chemistry and has important applications in biological and medical disciplines. The two high specification, state-of-the-art spectrometers, an Inova 300 and an Inova 500, have been supplied by Varian.