Colour on Campus
From the red carpet rolled out for the visit of the Vietnamese Prime Minister in 2008 to a rare sketch of plans for Belfield by the late Andrzej Wejchert ... To paraphrase our founder, John henry Newman, we present the (bright) idea of a university

rolling out the red carpet
When the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dun, visited UCD in March 2008, rain prevented the red carpet being rolled out until the very last minute. A week later, on St Patrick’s Day, and in rather better weather, the then Tánaiste Brian Cowen attended a ground-breaking ceremony at the Ireland Vietnam Blood-borne Virus Initiative (IVVI) laboratory in Hanoi. The initiative stems from work undertaken by Professor william Hall of the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, and includes graduate training programmes in diagnostic virology for Vietnamese students at the UCD National Virus Reference Laboratory in Dublin.

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