A Kerry scholar has been awarded a prestigious academic accolade.
Dr Brian Hand, from Blackwater, Killarney, has received a Fulbright Award; this programme selects outstanding candidates from Ireland to study and work with US institutions.
Dr Hand is a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Munster Technological University in Cork.
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He was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MTU for his research on offshore wind turbines (H-type VAWT - vertical axis small wind turbines).
As a Fulbright-EPA Scholar, Dr Hand will travel to the prestigious Stanford University in California.
