Taoiseach, Enda Kenny officially opens new student centre at UCD
A new student centre development which includes a 50 metre Olympic-specification swimming pool has been officially opened by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny at University College Dublin. The 11,000 sq metre building designed by Fitzgerald Kavanagh and Partners was developed with student funds following a student referendum in 2006...
Study identifies accelerated risk pattern of suicide towards age 21
Suicide risk patterns accelerate up to the age of 20 before moderately levelling off, according to a new report published in the Cambridge Journal of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. The study conducted by researchers from University College Dublin and St Vincent’s University Hospital examined almost 12,000 suicide...
UCD spin-out company, Equinome opens Australian office to expand sales in the Asia-Pacific Region
Leading Irish equine genomics company, Equinome is establishing a sales and marketing office in Australia. The office will be the focal point for the company’s sales and marketing activities throughout the Asia-Pacific region...
Social history of nursing available through digitised INMO journals
Historical back editions of early nursing journals belonging to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have been digitised by UCD as part of a research project co-funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and the INMO. The Irish Nursing Journals Collection consists of almost 400 issues of the INMO...
Monday 26 - Friday 30 November: Biophotologia Exhibition
As part of the Dublin City of Science Festival 2012, former UCD researcher and freelance photographer Pablo Rojas presents a photography exhibition “Biophotologia” at UCD Conway Institute. The exhibition explores the elusive interplay between science and art by discovering their common matters of contention and working means...
