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Trinity College elects first woman Provost in 429 years Disappointment for Kilkenny native  '); Trinity College in Dublin has elected it's first woman Provost in it's 429 year history. But it was disappointment for Callan woman Professor Linda Hogan, who was one of the final three candidates in this morning's election. She made it through the first round of voting, which saw the elimination of Professor Jane Ohlmeyer with the lowest number of votes. In the final round of voting Professor Hogan received 270 votes to Professor Doyle's 517 votes. If you have a story or want to send a photo or ...

544 views In mid-February of this year, a series of severe winter storms swept across the United States, due to the jet stream dipping particularly far south, stretching from Washington State to Texas, and running back north along the East Coast, allowing a polar vortex to bring exceptionally cold air across the country, and spawning multiple storms along the jet stream track.  This weather phenomenon resulted in record low temperatures throughout the state of Texas, with temperatures in Dallas, Austin and San Antonio falling below temperatures in Anchorage, Alaska! In Texas, this led both t...

Professor Linda Hogan - at the top of Irish academia Reporter:  '); Callan woman Professor Linda Hogan has blazed a trail in academia and is a candidate to become the first ever female Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Professor Hogan is one of three final candidates, from whom the new Provost will be chosen, in April. The daughter of the late Bea and Patsy Hogan of the Steppes Bar, Linda attended St Brigid’s College, Callan, and is currently a Professor of Ecumenics at the School of Religion in Trinity College. Professor Hogan is an ethicist with extensive experience in research and te...

In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse. The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. In the earlier cold snap, the grid was pushed to the limit and rolling blackouts swept the state, spurring an ...

After a winter storm in Texas earlier this month left the state's residents to contend with widespread power outages and skyrocketing electricity prices, William W. Hogan, the architect of the state’s energy market system and a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, said in an interview with The Crimson Wednesday that the state’s electricity market had “worked as designed” given the conditions. Hogan, an energy policy professor, has researched the structure of energy markets for several decades and advocated for a specific type of scarcity-based market model in an attemp...