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UCD Research News Archive 2006

December 2006

• UCD spin-out BiancaMed secures €2.5 million investment

• First Irish experiment to be flown aboard the International Space Station

• Rote learning improves memory in older adults, new research shows

• UCD spin-out Celtic Catalysts to double employment to 20 people

• €1.75m grant to investigate how plants react to global warming

• UCD hosts interactive RDS Science Live lectures

• SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Awards for UCD researchers

November 2006

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance observes inhibitors bound to enzymes

• SFI/Dell Young Women in Engineering Scholarship Awards for UCD Students

• FitFone wins NovaUCD 2006 Campus Company Development Programme Award

• Two UCD academics receive gold medals from Royal Irish Academy

• New Book Unveils Archaeological Discoveries of the 1950s

• ScienceWorks for Second-level students at UCD Conway Institute

• Scottish First Minister tours UCD Conway Institute on first official visit to Dublin

• Research potential grows with new IT Data Centre

• NovaUCD Director elected chair of Council of AURIL

October 2006

• Inaugural Images of Research Awards and Exhibition

• UCD hosts inaugural Images of Research competition & exhibition

• Plasma Astrophysics collaboration for Oxford and UCD

• UCD Smurfit School of Business moves up in world rankings of full-time MBA programmes

• Investing, Innovating, Inspiring - International Biotechnology Conference to be held at UCD

• Ireland joins the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN)

• NovaUCD “Entrepreneurs Live!” seminar series to feature leading Irish entrepreneurs

• Crystal Creatures – a merger of Art and Science

• Enterprise Ireland Award for UCD Professor

• Irish Heart Foundation appoints UCD Professor as President

September 2006

• Inaugural medal recognises excellence in postgraduate research

• Glass from the past

• UCD researchers closer to finding a new way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

• UCD is The Sunday Times University of the Year 2006

• Top International Scientist returns to Ireland and to UCD

• Leading Research School in major recruitment drive

• Minister Hanafin welcomes UCD's new Diabetes Research Centre

August 2006

• UCD improves its position in World Universities Ranking

• UCD Lecturer appointed to Board of Directors of ERCIM

• 10 million year old fossilised frogs yield bone marrow

• Low levels of iodine in Irish women’s diets may impact IQ of children

July 2006

• Three UCD women receive Science Foundation Ireland award that enables researchers who have taken career breaks to remain in research

• UCD Telescope is first to detect visible light from a Gamma-Ray Burst

• Irish Consortium of Researchers wins €20m to Establish Clinical Research Centre

• New online biotechnology system helps scientists engineer more environmentally friendly enzymes

• Oxford Glycan Sequencing Group moves to Dublin to kick-start NIBRT's ambitious research and training programmes

• UCD Newman Fellowships

• NovaUCD 2006 Innovation Award for co-founder of UCD spin-off BiancaMed

June 2006

• UCD bestows Ulysses Medal on author Edna O’Brien

• UCD hosts International Conference on Autonomic Computing

• Nobel laureate in economics receives UCD Ulysses Medal and takes up appointment as UCD Professor of Science and Society

May 2006

• UCD Professor of Computer Science shortlisted for Ernst & Young 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year®

• Systems Biology - from raw data to protein discovery

• UCD Hosts International Pervasive Computing Conference in Dublin

• A campus company with catalysts for success

• Understanding the Role of Free Radicals in Thrombosis could Lead to New Therapy

• UCD Conway researcher wins national ‘Science Speak’

• University College Dublin and Tec De Monterrey join Universitas 21

• Minister Cowen launches strategic alliance between UCD and the Institute of Bankers in Ireland

• Teagasc awards 30 postgraduate fellowships to UCD researchers

• CSCB awards €960,000 in PhD studentships to UCD researchers

• Wellcome Trust Award for ‘History of Medicine in Ireland’ Study

• UCD Egalitarian World Initiative joins elite European group

April 2006

• Irish Consortium Delivers on Fluke

• CSCB Researchers Discover Potential Chemotherapy Agent for Treating Kidney Cancer

• Transgenic mice may shed further light on how fatal leukemia develops in humans

• SFI Walton Visitors Awards for UCD

• New Technology for Translational Research comes to UCD Conway Institute

• UCD Spin-out ChangingWorlds expands its Advanced Research Centre at NovaUCD

• Can you help shape the future of health research, policy and patient care in Ireland?

March 2006

• UCD Deploys Largest Real-Time Locator System in Ireland

• Novel model of rheumatoid arthritis allows drugs test before clinical trials

• Royal Irish Academy honours UCD academics for significant contributions to research

• Ireland and South Africa R&D Collaboration Workshop

• UCD announces its favoured status with Ivy League university’s international postdoctoral recruitment programme

• AccesScience ’06 Unravels Scientific Research

• UCD Newman Scholars celebrate continuing success

February 2006

• The bug that turns your trash into cash

• UCD research team to create beverage for more active later life

• UCD experts to advise Minister for Agriculture on Avian Flu control measures

• NovaUCD seeking applications for Campus Company Development Programme, March 2006

• UCD Zoology Graduate Appointed CEO Designate of Natural England

• UCD Mechanical Engineering Graduate wins worldwide Motorola Innovation Competition with ‘Mood Phone’

• CoBiD-UREKA 2006 - International Summer Research Programme

• 18th Meeting of the European Renal Cell Study Group

• UCD Conway Institute makes science accessible

• UCD Spin-off ChangingWorlds Wins DHL Exporter of the Year 2005 Award

• Taoiseach opens UCD Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology building

January 2006

• First visit of aspiring young scientists to state-of-the-art CSCB building

• Award-winning physicist to give lecture at UCD

• UCD Researchers Seek New Dinosaur Fossils in Kazakhstan

• UCD School of Business lecturer wins ‘Best Paper Award’ at International Conference on Information Systems

• UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland Seminar Series

• Gaelic Identities Conference – Call for Papers

• O’Reilly reception for UCD Researchers

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