September 2025 Conferring

Conferring of BSc (Hons) Degrees 

on Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Congratulations to the BSc (Hons) Class of 2024/2025 who were conferred with their respective chemistry degrees on Wednesday, 3rd September 2025. Following the ceremony in O’Reilly Hall and a reception in the O’Brien Centre for Science the newly minted graduates joined academic staff at the Chessboard by the lake for the now traditional school group photograph. It was lovely to see and meet so many families and to have such a large crowd gather for this group photo. 

We are very proud of all of our graduates with their BSc Hons degrees in Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Chemistry with Environmental & Sustainable Chemistry and Chemistry & Mathematics Education. You can read more about our undergraduate programmes here.

We were lucky to catch some academics and the students they hosted in their groups for their Capstone 4th Year projects for photographs for posterity. 

Finn McCaffrey, Tara Sweeney, Eoghan McGarrigle, Cian O’Sullivan and Meng-Jan Lim

Clodagh Ni Ghallchoir, Susan Quinn and Kate McAteer

Jessica Osypov, Marina Rubini and Emily Kelly

Dermot Brougham and Chloe Donovan

L to R: Saman Mutahir, Wesam Alias, Roisin Cellarius, Mickey O'Reilly, and Rosie Scott-Frame

Many of these graduates are going on to further studies and we are delighted that eight of these graduates are beginning PhDs here with us this September.  Emilia, Finn, Hubert, Faith, Max, Mickey, Daniel and Saman are already busy settling into their Graduate Research Studies joining the group of approx. 100 PhD students who are at various stages of the PhD programme. 

Everyone at UCD School of Chemistry wishes the best of success in the future to all of our graduates.