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, endowment = £6.483 million (2014) , budget = £185m , chancellor = Colin Davidson , vice_chancellor = Professor Paul Bartholomew , affiliations =

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. It is located in Derry, County Londonderry,

and opened in 1865 as a

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Christian arts and

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. Since 1953, it has had no religious affiliation and provides a broad range of

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academic degree programmes in disciplines ranging from business, law, social work, creative arts & technologies, cinematic arts,

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Academics

Magee offers a large number of

and

programmes through Ulster University's four faculties: UU Faculties . Retrieved on 2 July 2009. #Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences #Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment #Life and Health Sciences #Ulster Business School Within each faculty there are a number of schools offering programmes for their relative disciplines. The schools based on the Magee campus are: #Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – School of Arts and Humanities, School of Education, School of Law, School of Applied Social and Policy Studies #Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment – School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems #Life and Health Sciences – School of Nursing, School of Psychology #Ulster Business School – Department of Global Business and Enterprise Programmes taught at Magee include business studies, drama, law, social work, education, cinematic arts,

, computer games,

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s, music,

, and

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Research

Research activities include several research institutes and centres. Magee is home to the Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) AHRI Research Institute websit
Research Institutes – Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI)
Retrieved on 19 August 2015. with membership drawn from former research groupings in the Humanities Research Institute, the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages (AICH) Research Institutes Recruitment websit
Research Institutes – Academy for Cultural Heritages
. Retrieved on 21 November 2006. and the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies. Institute of Ulster Scots Studies websit

Retrieved on 21 November 2006. The AHRI provides an institutional focus for research activity and collaboration across four research clusters in Creative Arts and Technologies, Irish Language & Literature, English and History embracing a range of subject areas within the Faculty of Arts, including Creative Technologies, Music, Drama, Dance, Irish Language & Literature, English and History. The AHRI promotes a broad research culture and environment within which research activity in individual disciplines flourishes. Magee is the location for the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) dedicated to the creation of intelligent computational systems through research in neural networks, fuzzy systems,

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and

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. Other research areas include

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, robot vision, brain computer interfacing and

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. ISRC Websit
The Intelligent Systems Research Centre ''About''
. Retrieved on 2 July 2009. It also houses International Conflict Research (INCORE), a joint venture between the United Nations University and Ulster University. Established in 1993, it aims to address issues of the conflict in Northern Ireland and seek to promote conflict resolution internationally. INCORE Websit
INCORE: About
Retrieved on 21 November 2006. The

Transitional Justice Institute The Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), is a law-led multidisciplinary research institute of Ulster University which is physically located at the Jordanstown, and Magee campuses. It was created in 2003, making it the first a ...

is based at both the Magee and Jordanstown campuses.

Provost

The principal academic post at the campus is the provost. Professor Thomas G Fraser was provost from 2002 to 2006, succeeded by Professor Jim Allen. In 2011, Professor Deirdre Heenan was appointed to the post in 2011, following the retirement of Professor Allen. She was replaced by Dr Malachy O'Neil in 2016

History

The Magee Campus gained its name from Martha Magee, the widow of a

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, who, in 1845, bequeathed £20,000 to the

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to found a college for theology and the arts. ''History of Magee College'' a
UU Library website
. Retrieved on 28 August 2006. Union Theological College website

Retrieved on 31 December 2016. Epitaph, 1845. Martha Magee's memorial at a cemetery in

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reads, ''"The Rev Wm. Magee Minister of the Presbyterian Church Lurgan, died 9 June 1800. At the demise of Mrs Martha Magee, about £60,000 to the Irish Presbyterian Church including £20,000 for the establishment of a college."
History from Headstones
retrieved on 31 August 2006. It opened in 1865 primarily as a

, but accepted students from all denominations to study a variety of subjects. It was a college of the

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from 1880 and later became associated with the Trinity College, Dublin when the Royal University was dissolved in 1909 and replaced by the National University of Ireland. The Irish Roman Catholic bishops had in 1871 implemented a general ban on Catholics entering Trinity College, with few exceptions. This ban remained in place until it was rescinded by the Catholic Bishops of Ireland in 1970. By that time, Magee College had severed its links with TCD, as set out below.

World War II: Royal Navy

During

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, the college was taken over by

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for

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operational use, becoming with

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(), a major facility in the Battle of the Atlantic. A 2013 BBC report describes a secret major control bunker, later buried beneath the lawns of the college. From 1941 this bunker, part of Base One Europe, together with similar bunkers in

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, Liverpool, and Admiralty Citadel, Whitehall was used to control one million Allied personnel and fight the Nazi U-boat threat. On 14 September 2013 Magee hosted the 23rd International Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence based on The Turing Test. Julian Peck's (who resided at Prehen House in Derry) mother, Lady Winifred Peck (née Knox), was a sister of Dilly Knox who directed the code breaking at Bletchley Park. Sir Harry Hinsley OBE was Director of Studies at Cambridge University to Professor Robert Gavin, a former Provost of Magee. Dame Alice Rosemary Murray, the first female Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, who also sat on the John Lockwood (classicist), Lockwood Committee (1963–65) which recommended the closure of Magee as well as the location of Northern Ireland's 2nd University being Coleraine (February 1965), from which she was later awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) Honorary Degree (1972), was stationed at Base One Europe as Women's Royal Naval Service, WRNS Chief Officer and responsible for the welfare of 5,600 Wrens stationed at Londonderry.

Postwar

In 1953, Magee Theological College separated from the remainder of the college, eventually moving to Belfast in a 1978 merger that formed Union Theological College. Presbyterian Church in Ireland Press Release, 200
''Presbyterian College Celebrates 150 Years''
. Retrieved on 28 August 2006. Also in 1953, Magee College broke its links with Dublin and became ''Magee University College''. It was hoped by groups led by the University for Derry Committee that this university college would become Northern Ireland's second university after Queen's University of Belfast. However, in the 1960s, following the recommendations in John Lockwood (classicist)#The Lockwood Report, the Lockwood Report by John Lockwood (classicist), Sir John Lockwood, Master of Birkbeck College, London and former List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, the Stormont Parliament made a controversial decision to pass it over in favour of a new university in Coleraine. Instead it was incorporated into the two-campus New University of Ulster in 1969. The next fourteen years saw the college halve in size, while development focused on the main Coleraine campus. In 1984, the New University merged with the Ulster Polytechnic, and Magee became the early focus of development of a new four-campus university, the University of Ulster. Student and faculty numbers recovered and grew rapidly over the next ten to fifteen years, accompanied by numerous construction projects. Magee grew from just 273 students in 1984 to over 4000 undergraduates in 2012. In 2012, the University continued to lobby the Northern Ireland Executive for an additional 1000 full-time undergraduate places, leading to 6000 students at Magee in 2017.6000 students includes 4000 in 2012, 1000 additional without government permission, and 1000 lobbied for from the Northern Ireland Executive. In October 2014 the University of Ulster was rebranded as Ulster University. Magee University Derry SMC 2005

Timeline

*1845 – Foundation endowment from Martha Magee. *1865 – Magee College opened. *1880 – Magee College joined the new

. *1909 – Royal University dissolved. Government funding greatly reduced. Magee College became an autonomous university college, with students completing their degrees at Trinity College, Dublin. *1953 – Magee University College received major government grant funding for the first time. *1969 – Magee University College merged with the New University of Ulster. *1978 – Magee Theological College closed, merging with Assembly's College to form Union Theological College in Belfast. *1984 – New University merged with the Ulster Polytechnic, Jordanstown, to form the University of Ulster. *2014 – Rebranded name to Ulster University.

Historical notes

* Florence Nightingale visited Magee College on 31 May 1867. * The Magee College bequest is mentioned on the founder's graveyard memorial in

, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, where her husband was a Minister of religion, minister.

Campus

The central feature of the campus is the original 1865 building. This is surrounded by Victorian red brick houses, and several modern buildings in red brick and glass, constructed since the formation of the University of Ulster. The campus is used for education, but also as a convention centre. For example, Magee hosted the 2006 Tomo-Dachi convention. ;Timeline of recent construction *1988 – Phase I building *1989 – Carrickmore House, extension of main building *1990 – Phase II library building *1991 – Refurbished main building *1992 – Extension of 3/4 College Avenue *1993 – Strand Road student residence *1995 – Phase III buildings (sports complex and informatics), Duncreggan Road student residences, floodlit all-weather sports ground

Tip O'Neill Chair

Based at Magee, the Tip O'Neill Chair in Peace Studies was established in commemoration of the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Jr. a well-known supporter of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The chair was inaugurated by the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton in 1995. Currently funded by The Ireland Funds the chair was held by the Nobel Peace Laureate, John Hume from 2002 to 2009. Under the tenure of Professor Hume Magee hosted a series of guest lectures involving key national and international policy-makers. *Mitchell Reiss, United States Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, 2006 *John Kerry, United States Senator, 2006 *Garret Fitzgerald, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, 2005 *Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Senator, 2004 *Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, 2004 *Romano Prodi, EU Commission President, 2004 *Pat Cox, MEP and President of the European Parliament, 2004 *Bertie Ahern, then Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and President of the European Council, 2003 *Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, 2003 *Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France, 2003

Notable alumni

Year of matriculation is given, if known. *Gregory Campbell (politician), Gregory Campbell, 1982 *Mark Durkan, Deputy First Minister of the Northern Ireland Executive, c.1980s *Dill Macky, founder of The Scots College school in Sydney, 1866 *Brooke Scullion, Irish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, 2020.

Honorary graduates

Notable figures have received honorary degrees in graduations hosted by Magee. *Rt Hon Lord Ashdown (Paddy Ashdown), former Liberal Democrat Leader and former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006 *Amanda Burton, actor, 2002 *Bill Clinton, then President of the United States, 1995 *Hillary Clinton, United States Senator, 2004 *Enya, Irish singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter, 2007 *Gary Lightbody, Musician, 2012 *Stephen Rea, actor, 2004 *Fiona Shaw, actor, 2004 *Sir Ian McKellen, actor, 2013BBC News, 2013

3 February 2013. Retrieved on 19 July 2020.

Gallery

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Notes

References

External links

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