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Danny O'Hare
Daniel O'Hare, often Danny O'Hare, (born 1942), is an Irish academic and former university leader, best known as the founding leader and first president of Dublin City University, one of two new universities established in Ireland in September 1989. He has also held a wide range of public governance positions, and is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy in the Science division. Coming from Dundalk, he is a chemist, specialized in advanced spectroscopy.
O'Hare was born in County Louth, growing up in Dundalk, where he attended the local Christian Brothers School until 1960.
O'Hare graduated from University College Galway (UCG), now NUI Galway, where he qualified with a BSc in Chemistry, and then an MSc in Organic Chemistry. He took a post as an assistant at UCG from 1964 to 1965. He later studied for a Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, working with gas-phase ultraviolet spectroscopy, and qualifying in 1968.
O'Hare took up an assistant professorship at Michigan State University, before moving to the University of Southampton as a research fellow for a year.
O'Hare was appointed in 1971 as the first principal of Regional Technical College, Letterkenny, now Letterkenny Institute of Technology, serving until 1974, before becoming the second head of Regional Technical College, Waterford, now Waterford Institute of Technology.
O'Hare took up a role as the director of the to-be National Institute of Higher Education Dublin in 1977, working from a city centre office, while plans, and a campus, for the new institution were worked on. He oversaw the NIHE until 1989, when he led its conversion to university status, on the same day as the University of Limerick. He and his team secured funding from both international and national sources, including philanthropists such as Chuck Feeney. The NIHE and DCU focused on blending the needs of academia and industry, including a cooperative education system, INTRA.
O'Hare announced in November 1998 that he would step down in September 1999.
O'Hare has been a consultant to the World Bank and the OECD.
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Danny O'Hare
Daniel O'Hare, often Danny O'Hare, (born 1942), is an Irish academic and former university leader, best known as the founding leader and first president of Dublin City University, one of two new universities established in Ireland in September 1989. He has also held a wide range of public governance positions, and is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy in the Science division. Coming from Dundalk, he is a chemist, specialized in advanced spectroscopy.
O'Hare was born in County Louth, growing up in Dundalk, where he attended the local Christian Brothers School until 1960.
O'Hare graduated from University College Galway (UCG), now NUI Galway, where he qualified with a BSc in Chemistry, and then an MSc in Organic Chemistry. He took a post as an assistant at UCG from 1964 to 1965. He later studied for a Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, working with gas-phase ultraviolet spectroscopy, and qualifying in 1968.
O'Hare took up an assistant professorship at Michigan State University, before moving to the University of Southampton as a research fellow for a year.
O'Hare was appointed in 1971 as the first principal of Regional Technical College, Letterkenny, now Letterkenny Institute of Technology, serving until 1974, before becoming the second head of Regional Technical College, Waterford, now Waterford Institute of Technology.
O'Hare took up a role as the director of the to-be National Institute of Higher Education Dublin in 1977, working from a city centre office, while plans, and a campus, for the new institution were worked on. He oversaw the NIHE until 1989, when he led its conversion to university status, on the same day as the University of Limerick. He and his team secured funding from both international and national sources, including philanthropists such as Chuck Feeney. The NIHE and DCU focused on blending the needs of academia and industry, including a cooperative education system, INTRA.
O'Hare announced in November 1998 that he would step down in September 1999.
O'Hare has been a consultant to the World Bank and the OECD.