University Awards
Teaching & Learning
Student Activity
The President’s Awards each year provide recognition for those students who excel in extracurricular activities of a kind that make UCD an exciting, interesting, dynamic and humane place to live, study and work. Staff and students at UCD are invited to nominate candidates for these awards.
Research Fellowship
The President’s Research Fellowship Scheme is intended to support those, whose research and professional development as researchers would benefit from a period of focussed research and is intended to enhance UCD’s reputation internationally. With this in mind, the evaluation process takes into account where the research will take place. Preference is given to those whose fellowship application includes a period of research in another institution.
These research Fellowships are intended to support substantive research projects, leading to a peer-reviewed publication, monograph, patent or other significant research output and is awarded based on a highly competitive process.
View President’s Research Fellowship SchemeFoundation Day Medal
The Foundation Day Medal is presented to distinguished UCD graduates who have made an outstanding contribution in their field of expertise. The medal is presented to the recipient at the annual Foundation Day Dinner, held in November to mark the foundation of the Catholic University in 1854.
Ulysses Medal
The UCD Ulysses Medal is the highest honour that the university can bestow. It was inaugurated in 2005, as part of the university’s sesquicentennial celebrations, to highlight the ‘creative brilliance’ of UCD alumnus James Joyce. It is awarded to individuals whose work has made an outstanding global contribution.
Honorary Degrees
Honorary Degrees are awarded to people who have distinction in the arts, science, or other field of scholarship or creativity.
