NovaUCD based companies expect to create 300 jobs over 2 years

Companies based at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin, expect to create 300 highly-skilled jobs over the next 24 months, according an annual employment survey. The 37 companies include a mixture of ‘spin-out’ and ‘spin-in’ companies. ‘Spin-outs’ are companies established by UCD researchers...

Top golf pro, Harrington receives James Joyce Award from UCD L&H Society

One of the world's top golfers, Irishman, Padraig Harrington has been presented with the James Joyce Award from the UCD Literary & Historical Society. He received the award in recognition of his outstanding achievements which make him ‘an inspirational figure...

UCD scientist first to win SFI-HRB Wellcome Trust Biomedical Partnership Award

Dr Fiona McGillicuddy from the Conway Institute at University College Dublin has won the first award under the SFI-HRB Wellcome Trust Biomedical Partnership. She will investigate the links between obesity, 'good cholesterol', diet and coronary artery disease...

UCD academic elected President of International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

Professor Mary Clayton is the first Irish academic to be elected President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. ISAS was established in 1983 to provide all scholars interested in the languages, literatures, arts, history, and material culture of Anglo-Saxon England...

Friday 10 – Saturday 11 February 2012: Democracy in the 21st Century - The Garret FitzGerald Spring Conference

Garret FitzGerald had a pronounced impact on Ireland not only as an active politician but as a thinker and commentator. He had a deeply-rooted commitment to the role of the university, and to University College Dublin in particular. Reflecting that relationship, an annual series of 'Spring Schools' named in his honour is being initiated…