News & Opinion
2017
July 2017
- Births by caesarean section in Ireland increase 154% over 25 years
- Sports management master's ranked 30th in the world
- Electrical stimulation can help people who are too weak to exercise
- Simon O’Connor appointed director of Ulysses Centre at Newman House
- UCD PhD candidate wins Royal Academy of Engineering early-stage career award
June 2017
- Healthy eating programme boosts fruit and vegetables consumption among primary school children
- Two UCD researchers and CEO of UCD spin-out firm honoured for Horizon 2020 leadership
- Professor Maeve Conrick receives Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies
- Health food venture wins UCD student start-up programme award
- NASA’s Robert Lightfoot meets UCD students who developed Ireland’s first satellite
- CEO of UCD spin-out named Founder of the Year by Enterprise Ireland
- UK research on widening access to higher education provides “cautionary lessons” for Irish sector
- Saudi Aramco takes stake in University College Dublin spin-out
- Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit Business School master’s in finance 36th in the world
- 12 of 38 Fulbright Awards go to UCD students, scholars and professionals
- Hu Chunhua leads Chinese delegation visit to University College Dublin
- UCD Professor John Walsh awarded William Smith Medal by Geological Society of London
- QS World University Rankings: UCD up eight places to 168
- Study: Men aged 20-29 who swap car for bike face high collision risk
- UCD Professor Gerry Byrne first Irish person to receive Fraunhofer Thaler Award
May 2017
- UCD student wins national science journalism award
- UCD student Lanigan O'Keeffe claims gold for Ireland at pentathlon World Cup event
- UCD student O'Donovan takes silver at European Rowing Championships
- Royal Irish Academy elects three UCD academics for "unique contributions to education"
- Woodrow Wilson's influence on US foreign policy will outlast Donald Trump
- US State Department has “ground to a halt” under President Trump
- Ireland's first satellite given go-ahead by ESA
- Seven UCD players in Ireland Rugby squad
- Husband-and-wife scientists awarded Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Dr. Caroline Elinor Hussey: 1941 - 2017
- Fact Check: could Labour raise £19.4 billion by reversing Conservative corporation tax cuts?
- UCD engineers named among Ten Outstanding Young People in Ireland
- UCD Smurfit Executive Development ranked top 50 in the world by Financial Times
- Tillage farming damaging earthworm populations, say scientists
- UCD Professor Kenneth Wolfe elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- Science Foundation Ireland to invest €72m in four new world-class research centres
- UCD Ladies hockey team take Champions Trophy to seal season treble
April 2017
- European Union has been looking inward for too long, says Catherine Day
- UCD cyclist defeats field of 190 riders to become King of the Mountains
- Cultural influence of novel declining in digital age, says Will Self
- Nudging people towards “better” choices
- UCD claims fifth Irish Senior Cup Ladies hockey title
March 2017
- Breastfeeding does not necessarily boost children's intelligence, study finds
- University College Dublin signs historic accreditation with Bar Council of India
- Frans Timmermans awarded honorary life membership of UCD Law Society
- UCD Dramsoc wins most awards at student drama festival
- UCD footballer wins FAI Senior Women’s International Player of the Year
- One-in-four road deaths in Ireland is work-related, study shows
- UCD beats Trinity in Liffey boat race
- UCD receives Athena SWAN Award on Gender Equality
- €6.7m EU boost to improve bathing waters in Ireland and Wales
- Eating lots of cheese does not raise cholesterol, Irish study shows
- UCD continues to be university of first choice with 8,685 CAO first preferences
- UCD leads the Irish University Sector with QS World University Subject Rankings increases
- Obama’s weakness helped Trump win, says Guardian journalist
- UCD collaboration with Fujitsu and Insight Centre for Data Analytics targets new cancer therapies
- Bristol-Myers Squibb and UCD team up to boost talent and skills supply for pharma sector
February 2017
- How the Italian Futurists shaped the aesthetics of modernity in the 20th century
- Clifden Arts Festival donates its archive to UCD
- In Memoriam Desmond Connell: 26 March 1926 - 21 February 2017
- Professor Dervilla Donnelly first woman to receive Royal Irish Academy's highest honour
- Drug can reduce risk of developing diabetes by 80 per cent, study shows
- €1.5m award for UCD study on developing framework for regional prosperity in Europe
- UCD student team wins Great Agri-Food Debate
- UCD and PwC join forces to promote education and talent development
- UCD student Mageean lands national 3000m indoor title
- Top team prize for UCD students at Irish Times Debate 2017 grand final
- President of Ireland Michael D Higgins visits UCD infectious disease facility in Cuba
- UCD wins Irish Intervarsity Swimming Championships
- Dublin ranked as one of world's best cities for international students
- UCD medical spin-out secures €2.1 million investment
- UCD Foundation Day Medal for Colm Tóibín
- Gender quotas only way to achieve balance in workplace, says Irish social enterprise leader
- Jean-Claude Trichet receives Honorary Life Membership of UCD Law Society
- UCD spin-in enlisted by European Space Agency
- UCD Smurfit Business School MBA ranked 70th in FT Global Top 100
- Earth's water may have originally been formed deep within its mantle, study shows
January 2017
- Austerity was not main cause of Ireland’s economic recovery, book says
- Q&A: what legal obligation does the US have to accept refugees?
- Best Costume Design Oscar nomination for UCD graduate
- World's most prestigious award in criminology for UCD Professor
- Opinion: The Trump era has begun. How can we make sense of it?
- Venice Architecture Biennale to be curated by UCD adjunct professors
- UCD's "engineering visionary" honoured by Irish Academy of Engineering
- Prof Ronan Fanning: 1941 - 2017
- Forbes 30 Under 30 features two UCD students
- Dermot Gallagher: 25 January 1944 – 15 January 2017
- UCD spin-in to provide specialist post-surgery female underwear to NHS
- Some bat species lost sophisticated sonar ability as they evolved
- T.K. Whitaker - 08 December 1916 - 09 January 2017
- Yemen: a calamity at the end of the Arabian peninsula
2016
December 2016
- Myth of economic migrants must be countered, says EU agency head
- Do we all have a right to cross borders?
- UCD academic awarded oldest non-military decoration in France
- UCD graduate elected first female President of RCPI
- Never mind Article 50, here’s why Article 127 could be crucial to keeping Britain in the single market
- Peacemaker, labour rights advocate and economics pioneer awarded honorary degrees
- Spinning black hole swallowing star explains superluminous event 4 billion light-years from Earth
- Origin and University College Dublin team up on €17.6 million crop science research partnership
- John Montague – 28 Feb 1929 – 10 Dec 2016
- UCD Cyclist wins Male Rider of the Year
- How the Italian avant-garde survived the trenches of World War I
- New UCD Access and Lifelong Learning Centre opens in main library building
- National student volunteering website launches at UCD
- UCD Professors named highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters
- UCD Smurfit now 29th in Financial Times European Business School Rankings
- UCD alumni Ruairí Quinn and Dr Rhona Mahony awarded NUI honorary degrees
- Minister Humphreys launches Irish Museums Survey 2016
November 2016
- UCD graduates and adjunct professors, Farrell and McNamara win RIBA International Prize
- UCD leads €4m research to improve access to mental health services for young people
- Ireland can become an international champion for human rights – Minister Varadkar
- Biotech start-up targeting heart disease wins UCD Start-Up of the Year Award
- UCD PhD student captures Science Foundation Ireland Research Image of Year award
- UCD honours distinguished graduates with Alumni Awards
- UCD Professor first Irish woman elected President of Society of Legal Scholars
- New network to help Irish and Welsh life science businesses to innovate
- UCD/HSE report finds differences in obesity risk factors for children attending schools in disadvantaged areas
- Opinion: After poisoning and dividing America, Donald Trump has won an ugly victory
- Wearable health technology spin-out secures first round investment
- UCD leads discovery of potential treatment for aggressive form of breast cancer
October 2016
- Peter Tatchell receives UCD James Joyce award for 50 years of activism
- We have a “moral obligation” to help achieve UN sustainable development goals
- Shift work has negative impact on most employees' health
- UCD PhD student awarded young investigator prize for blood pressure research
- UCD Professor elected President of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
- UCD cancer research to reduce number of patients exposed to excessive treatment
- UCD to lead €6m Horizon 2020 project to improve air quality in European cities
- Defender of scientific enquiry awarded Ulysses Medal for contribution to philosophy
- Opinion: Trump and Clinton’s second debate: American politics is in the gutter
- The more you know about a topic the more likely you are to have false memories about it
- UCD College of Business Launches Ambitious Strategy to achieve Top 50 Global Business School status within five years
- Opinion: Oslo’s ambitious ‘climate budget’ sets the bar for other cities
- World expert in advanced manufacturing technologies joins University College Dublin
- Ancient DNA from early settlers of the Pacific
September 2016
- Opinion: Why Deutsche Bank stock fell so far
- UCD honours "exceptional role model" for women in engineering
- UCD battles to maintain rankings position as funding cuts continue to impact
- Rio 2016 homecoming: "Why don't you try and go to the Olympics?", O'Donovan told aged 7
- Genomics pioneer, Dr Lee Hood awarded UCD Ulysses Medal
- UCD PhD student wins All-Ireland Energy Thesis in Three Challenge
- Ireland to host International Geographical Congress for first time
- UCD Smurfit School’s MSc in International Management ranked 22nd in the Financial Times global Masters in Management (MiM) Ranking
- UCD honours Dame Hilary Mantel
- Green inventor Professor Kevin O'Connor wins NovaUCD 2016 Innovation Award
- Faking it: some mammals make deep mating calls to exaggerate their size
- UCD awards honorary degree to Emily Logan
- QS World University Rankings: President of UCD and Provost of Trinity issue joint statement calling for Government action to address funding crisis in higher education
August 2016
- Opinion: Three problems with the EU’s €13 billion ruling on Apple’s Irish taxes
- Knowing too much: experts more likely to experience 'false memories' about their specialist subject
- O'Donovan storms to gold at World Rowing Championships
- UCD opens 354 new campus residences
- DNA analysis uncovers secrets of 5,300-year-old Iceman's clothes
- Ulysses Centre gets planning approval
- Historic first ever Irish Olympic rowing medal for UCD student O’Donovan
- Global market on Horizon for SiriusXT as it secures €3m funding for X-ray microscope
- UCD Cycling set new national team record
- UCD leads the field in Science Foundation Ireland research investment
July 2016
- DNA analyses reveal genetic identities of world's first farmers
- UCD swimmer selected for Rio Olympics
- Report calls for end to Direct Provision asylum system
- Skillar mobile recruitment app captures Start-up Stars
- MagGrow wins 2016 Thrive Accelerator Award for its crop spraying technology
- New Plusvital genetic tests target improvement in racehorses' performance
- Mageean bags bronze with power surge at European Athletics Championships
- NASA selects UCD alumnus for undersea mission
- Master's in sport management ranked 23rd in the world
- Cancer care partnership to improve delivery of treatment
June 2016
- 6,000 celebrate inaugural UCD Festival
- Fulbright awards for five UCD scholars
- Knowledge Transfer Ireland 2016 Mature Spin-out Impact Award for UCD
- Mathematical equation explains how rogue waves are formed
- UCD leads €8m Horizon 2020 AgroCycle project on ‘circular economy’ applied to agri-food sector
- Opinion: Britain votes to leave the EU, here's what happens next
- Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit finance master's in global top 50
- UCD and TCD create €60m start-up fund for companies from Ireland's third-level institutions
- £3.7m international research project to discover new tests and treatments for diabetic kidney disease
- UCD engineer receives €1.7 million grant to improve efficiency of national grid
- UCD Ulysses Medal awarded to Frankfurt School philosopher
- Half of older people in nursing homes could stay at home, say social workers
- Opinion: What is Article 50 - the law that governs exiting the EU - and how does it work?
- Gold medal at Bloom Festival for concept garden created by UCD academics
- Financial instability signalled by growth in same directors on company boards
- Alumni Honours Award for life-saving medicine graduate
May 2016
- UCD athletes at Rio 2016
- Five UCD academics elected to Royal Irish Academy
- Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit Executive Education in global top 70
- UCD cyclist wins longest stage of Ireland's leading road race
- UCD Professor set to be first outside United States to receive Takeda Distinguised Research Award
- UCD's elite athletes honoured at UCD Sports Awards
- UCD scientists collaborate in international €2.5m gastric bypass weight loss study
- Opinion: America feels like it’s in decline again - and Trump is just a symptom
- Parental mentoring programme significantly boosts children's IQs
- Royal Society of Chemistry honours UCD chemist
- UCD scientists lead €8m Horizon 2020 nanotechnology health risk study
- Human rights activist Giri honoured by UCD
- UCD athletes take gold at European Rowing Championships and Pentathlon World Cup
- Plusvital confirms Equinome Speed Gene Test result for Galileo Gold
- AIB funds Chair in Behavioural Economics at University College Dublin
- Mass migration of refugees to Europe is greatest defeat for Isis - Fisk
April 2016
- Inequality the "defining issue" of the next generation of politics - Alastair Campbell
- UCD honours six for advancing understanding of Ireland's revolutionary period
- Professor Sarah Prescott to lead UCD College of Arts and Humanities
- Opinion: A ‘serious’ foreign policy speech doesn’t make Trump any less terrifying
- UCD and Enterprise Ireland announce €1.7m food safety partnership
- UCD students win UK and Ireland debating competition
- Seven UCD players in GAA Rising Stars team of the year
- Prof Des Higgins named as Motoo Kimura award recipient
- Michael Palin honoured by UCD Arts Society
- Opinion: Clinton wins New York, but fight for the Democratic Party’s soul goes on
- Dow invests in OxyMem's wastewater treatment technology
- €6.6m investment for UCD-based medical device firm FIRE1
- Explainer: what caused Ireland’s Easter rising?
- UCD Boat Club wins Men's Senior Eight at Irish University Rowing Championships
- GAA World Games to be played in UCD
- University Observer named Newspaper of the Year at Smedias
- Foodbook24 tool to record Ireland's dietary intake
- Cell structure analysis reveals colours of 10-million-year-old snake
March 2016
- UCD golfer Yates claims West of Ireland Amateur Open Championship
- UCD Dramsoc biggest winner at Irish Student Drama Association awards
- UCD student wins at all-Ireland Feis Ceoil
- UCD Ladies Gaelic football team claims first O'Connor Cup title in 10 years
- Intel and University College Dublin sign first ever partnership to boost innovation
- 8,927 first preferences as UCD remains university-of-first-choice
- Shorter periods of solitary confinement in Irish prisons due to evidence of harm on prisoners’ well-being
- UCD political science partnership to evaluate EU's impact on global justice
- Last-minute goal secures UCD's 43rd Collingwood Cup title
February 2016
- Affluent areas of Dublin city have more trees and green spaces
- UCD graduate wins Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action)
- Opinion: The Republicans' mudfight of a campaign masks a real foreign policy debate
- UCD humanities scholar awarded €1.5m Horizon 2020 grant
- Opinion: Ireland's 'complacent' government cost itself the election?
- UCD student is individual debating prize winner at The Irish Times debate
- UCD dig deep to end 20-year wait for Sigerson Cup
- €1.4m funding for healthcare leadership model research
- Study: Smoking bans reduce harm from passive smoking, specifically cardiovascular disease
- Opinion: What’s going on at Yahoo?
January 2016
- Opinion: Whether or not Trump wins, the Republican Party may never recover
- UCD spin-out OxyMem features in 2015 Global Cleantech list
- Expert Explains: why are cities warmer than the countryside?
- UCD Smurfit School MBA ranked 79th in FT Global Top 100
- Spotify buys Irish mobile music app Soundwave
- €2.3 million dairy research facility opens at UCD Lyons Research Farm
- UCD awarded highest Erasmus+ international credit mobility funding
- Seven Oscar nominations for two movies based on novels by UCD graduates
- UCD professor named "highly cited researcher" by Thomson Reuters
2015
December 2015
- UCD spin-out company, Equinome acquired by Plusvital
- UCD researchers' toolkit to drive local diaspora engagement projects
- Co-founders of spin-out firm OxyMem receive NovaUCD 2015 Innovation Award
- UCD engineers complete experiment onboard ESA sounding rocket
- Gates Foundation award for UCD project targeting child pneumonia
- Alex Murphy wins bronze at European Short Course Swimming Championships
- NUI honours for UCD Emeritus Professor, Mary Daly and UCD Graduate, Dick Ahlstrom
- Former EU Commissioner, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn awarded UCD honorary degree
- New €26 million geosciences research centre at University College Dublin
- Ireland's leading business journalists honoured by UCD Smurfit School
November 2015
- UCD awarded 'Centre of Excellence' status in rheumatology
- Spin-out firm SiriusXT wins Best Early Stage Company Award at Irish Seedcorn finals
- Phision Therapeutics wins UCD 2015 Start-up Award
- SFI, industry and funds invest €11m in Energy Systems Integration research
- Study identifies new gene associated with Joubert Syndrome
- UCD awarded highest number of Intel Women in Technology Scholarships
- UCD alumni award for former European Commission Secretary-General Catherine Day
- 'Fourth strand' of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age
- UCD scholars honoured by National University of Ireland
- Spin-out firm SiriusXT to compete in Irish early-stage company finals
- UCD student McCaffrey named Gaelic football Player of the Year
- IBM and UCD scientists collaborate to drive research into smarter cities
- UCD academics make Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015 shortlist
- Ger Brennan appointed Gaelic Games Executive at UCD
- Women of the Future Award for UCD alumna
- UCD alumnus Berber features on list of 100 influential leaders
October 2015
- Triumph for UCD Choral Scholars at City of Derry International Choral Festival
- Ancient genome reveals extinct wild aurochs crossbred with early British domesticated cattle
- DNA crystal analysis to improve cancer drug development
- UCD launches its strategy for research, innovation and impact
- €4.8 million Horizon 2020 funding for centre of excellence
- UCD Smurfit School MBA climbs in The Economist and Financial Times rankings
- The autumn edition of UCD Today is now online
- Logentries acquired by Rapid7 for $68 million
- Ancient genome from Africa sequenced for first time
- UCD medical researcher is first Irish academic to receive European Respiratory Society award
- Ten fellowships in personalised medicine for UCD
- UCD up 53 places to 176 in THE World University Rankings
September 2015
- Young Irish woman’s bid to follow in the footsteps of Shackleton
- World-leading sociologist awarded UCD Ulysses Medal
- UCD spin-out Equilume targets US market with innovative horse breeding technology
- DNA analysis identifies long-lost remains of executed 1916 rebel, Thomas Kent
- €2.7 million Horizon 2020 funding for UCD spin-out OncoMark
- Citations per Faculty keep UCD in top 1 percent of world’s universities in QS rankings
- Scientists identify new way of information storage and processing based on skyrmions
- UCD students row their way to Rio Olympics
- Global business analytics company, SAS to create 150 new jobs
- Thousands celebrate their graduation day at UCD
- Gene regulating damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis discovered
August 2015
- Confidence in the economy reflected in increased points at UCD
- PhD students are first UCD graduates to receive Wellcome Trust-NIH scholarships
- Archaeologists in UCD collaborative excavations find evidence of human habitation 10000 years ago in Scottish Highlands
- UCD Professor elected President of European Symposium
July 2015
- Mobile analytics startup HeyStaks to create 20 jobs with €1.5 million investment
- New anthology of cultural and political writings
- Rio awaits as Ad Astra scholar Mark English runs qualifying time
- UCD Energy Institute receives €1.2 million Horizon 2020 grant
- UCD researcher drives K supercomputer to top of Graph 500 ranking
- Future stars of UCD and Liverpool meet in Belfield
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