Cultúr Lab, in partnership with UCD Innovation, UCD Research and Innovation Dublin, has hosted an Open Forum entitled Igniting Ireland’s Cultural and Creative Capital.

The 2013 UCD Foundation Day Medal has been awarded to Dr David O’Reilly former Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation.

Kinesis Health Technologies Ltd, a new health technology start-up company, has won the inaugural University College Dublin VentureLaunch Accelerator Award and a €25,000 prize.

Researchers at UCD have developed a low cost device, called FIREBrick, to help police forces in developing nations, or with limited budgets, capture digital and computer data at crime scenes.