Prof Maurice Boland appointed as director of agricultural research body

PROFESSOR Maurice Boland, principal of the UCD College of Agriculture, Food Science, and Veterinary Medicine, has been appointed director of the UCD/Teagasc National Agricultural Research, Education and Innovation Partnership.

Prof Boland is Professor of Animal Husbandry at UCD and has had a distinguished academic career, where he has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Head of the School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, and is currently principal of the UCD College of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine.

Prof Boland was instrumental in developing the non-surgical embryo transfer technique in cattle that is now widely used worldwide. His research programmes have involved extensive collaboration, both within UCD and at a national and international level.

He was a former member of the UCD Governing Authority and was elected to the Senate of the National University of Ireland (NUI) in 2007.

Prof Boland says one of his key goals will be to work with the academic and research staff in both organisations to establish the partnership as a vehicle for the delivery of world-class, collaborative, basic and applied agricultural research and education.