Graduation Day 2009

Published date: 23 November 2009

Graduation in the Institute took place on Friday November 20th. The Graduation Mass was presided over by Dr. Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, and the degrees and awards were conferred by Prof. Ferdinand von Prondzynski, the President of DCU. Awards related to 12 graduation groups representing 8 programmes. There are 117 graduates including the Institute?s first doctoral award in theology. The Institute presently has 750 students.

The President of the Institute, Dr. Dermot A. Lane, in the course of his speech welcoming graduates, said "that the Smart economy, if it is to be really smart, needs philosophical and ethical and religious perspectives". He also pointed out that "if we ignore the Arts and the Humanities in the current national crisis, we run the risk of ignoring that which makes us a humane and civilised people. Without the humanising influence of the Arts and Humanities, society runs the risk of reducing itself and the Smart Economy to a jungle without values, where only the fittest will survive". He also paid a warm tribute to the President of DCU whose term of office comes to end in July 2010. (You can read the full text of Dr. Lane’s address here).

In recent weeks the Institute has also launched a Graduate Network and a Facebook© page.

MDI Graduated Students - 2009