News & Opinion
2019
May 2019
- UCD oarsmen named 'Sportspersons of the Year' for golden win at World Championships
- UCD AgSoc gifts record-breaking €65,000 to charity
- Education is more than just learning 'to be useful’ President Higgins tells young philosophers
- UCD mathematician inducted into Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Alumnus Professor Stephen O’Rahilly wins major US award
- Breastfeeding 'cuts childhood obesity risk', new WHO study finds
- British Ecological Society early career award for UCD researcher
April 2019
- Ministers announce the nomination of Professor Peter Clinch as Chairperson Designate of the Board of Science Foundation Ireland
- James Joyce award presented to UN commissioner and SDG advocate Dr Alaa Murabit
- UCD Dramsoc and Performing Art scholar wins ‘best lead actor’ at the drama festival
- Novelist and playwright Professor Frank McGuinness honoured by UCD
- Opinion: Nancy Pelosi on Brexit: why Irish-US diplomacy is a powerful force in border talks
- UCD launches Ireland's first digital-policy programme
- Technology "blurring the lines" between gambling and online games, Oireachtas Justice Committee hears
- UCD opens new clinical research centre at Wexford General Hospital in IEHG partnership
- UCD student competes for title of ‘World’s Best Science Communicator’ at FameLab
- Three UCD students chosen to take part in prestigious Washington Ireland Program
- BAFA ‘Distinguished Academic’ honour for UCD corporate governance expert
- NovaUCD spin-in THEYA Healthcare eyes US expansion after securing €665,000 in funding
- Environmental scientist Dr Cara Augustenborg appointed to Council of State
- University College Dublin ranked 58th in first global THE impact ranking of universities
- Video: Peter Sutherland would have made an excellent UN Secretary-General says former US Ambassador Swing
- Irish universities contribute €8.89 billion to Ireland’s economy annually, report finds
- Top UCD researcher awarded €2.5 million to do the maths on big waves
- Video: President Michael D. Higgins calls for a "new mind for Europe" to strengthen EU unity
- Professor Margaret Kelleher wins Michael J Durkan Book Prize
March 2019
- Irish bog butter proven to be ‘3500 years’ past its best before date
- Professor David Farrell awarded Brown Democracy Medal for Irish Citizens' Assembly Project
- UCD rowers take Gannon Cup and Sally Moorhead Trophy in Colours races
- Strong demand for STEM degrees in CAO applications
- University College Dublin and Genomics Medicine Ireland announce precision medicine collaboration
- UCD researchers head up new €100m SFI ‘Future Skills’ postgraduate centres
- Thousands of students nominate UCD teaching staff for excellence awards
- In Memoriam Kevin Roche: 1922 - 2019
- UCD unveils strategy and action plan putting EDI at the heart of University life
- UCD runners win double bronze for Ireland at European Athletic Championships
February 2019
- Professor Sheila O’Donnell becomes first Irish architect inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters
- NovaUCD supported companies raise €760m in equity funding
- 6 UCD subjects in top 50 QS World University Rankings by Subject
- Opinion: When political leaders choose catastrophe – how Europe walked willingly into World War I
- Marie O’Connor appointed as first female Chair of UCD Governing Authority
- Mary Robinson: “We need a moon shot on global warming, and we need it now”
- UCD team helps redraw map of the Universe as almost 300,000 new galaxies discovered
- Cash buyers bought almost half of all properties sold in 2018, Consumer Market Monitor reports
- UCD Ad Astra athletics going for gold at European Indoor championships
- Running ace Ciara Mageean claims new Irish record for the 1500m
- SFI Discover Programme awards funding to four UCD projects promoting STEM
- RIA presents UCD Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty with Gold Medal for Humanities
- Oireachtas Committee: “Discretionary” tax relief is costing Ireland €21.4bn each year
- SFI Technology Innovation Development Awards for four UCD academics
- Amid Brexit chaos, Ireland seeks international opportunity
January 2019
- Kilmainham Gaol to display exhibit exploring how health shaped Irish prison reform
- Brexit: why customs are central to solving the Irish border impasse
- Irish Book of the Year prize for UCD professor Emilie Pine
- Two undergraduate entrepreneurs latest to join NovaUCD
- €20m investment as UCD College of Business expands
- UCD World Cup hockey ace Lena Tice shortlisted for FIH 'Rising Star' award
- SFI Starting Investigator Research Grants for three UCD academics
- Drinking tea during pregnancy may be bad for your baby’s health
- UCD graduates named as two of Ireland’s five new Cultural Ambassadors
- UCD professor Shane Higgins inaugurated as new master of National Maternity Hospital
- Top Irish jockeys back UCD engineers use of race footage to crack future helmet design
2018
December 2018
- UCD’s Professor David FitzPatrick named as President of Ireland’s first Technological University
- Calling all cyclists: Self-fix bicycle stations rolled out on the Belfield campus
- State bets €18.7m on five 'disruptive tech' projects at UCD
- New pitch puts UCD in position to host Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifiers
- Triumph as UCD graduate shatters decade long Irish swimming record at World Championships
- Video: UCD honours Laura Brennan, advocate who restored public confidence in HPV vaccine
- Pioneering researcher Professor Stephen Pennington wins 2018 NovaUCD Innovation Award
- Science graduate to hone skills at European Space Agency after IRC competition win
- Video: Maxim donates robotic learning factory to University College Dublin
- University honours Father Tony Coote for his ‘outstanding service to all’
- ‘Medal of Excellence’ for UCD research fellow at IRC Awards
- Video: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington portrait given pride of place in social sciences building bearing namesake
- Ten awardees honoured for excellence at UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards
- Video: The fiction of memory, Professor Elizabeth Loftus explains why we can’t always trust our own mind
- ERC awards €2m to UCD law expert to examine public distrust in government
November 2018
- UCD professors ranked among world's most influential researchers
- IOP Communicator Award for UCD physics postgraduate
- Video: “Rejuvenation alternative” is way to beat ageing argues Dr Aubrey De Grey
- UCD spinout Naiad clinchs Start-Up of the Year Award
- Art exhibition highlights “everyday indignities” of life in Irish prisons
- Funding partnership with Edinburgh strengthens European links
- SFI names UCD researcher Eoin Casey as Entrepreneur of the Year
- Fixed-odds betting machines are devastatingly addictive – why it's right to cut maximum stakes
- Artistic works inspired by the Great Famine struggle to do it justice, but they keep the memory alive
- Double Professional Footballers Association of Ireland win for UCD AFC
- People’s Choice Award for UCD student at Universitas 21
- UCD commemorates the 1918 Armistice
- Intel awards bursaries and employee mentors to 16 UCD graduate students
- Councils refusing to use Traveller housing funds could be sanctioned, Oireachtas Committee hears
- Arts Council names Sinéad Gleeson as Writing Fellow at UCD
- UCD agricultural sciences ranked global top 20 by U.S. News & World Report
- Children encouraged to delve into STEM as Science Apprentice series returns
- Proposed accelerated timelines to speed up Leaving Cert appeals and admission to college
- British Nutrition Foundation award for UCD dietitian
- UCD to delve into the secret lives of children navigating Irish primary school
- Research impact award for national study on social ills of problem gambling
October 2018
- People’s vote on Brexit: everyone seems to be missing this key point
- Student retraces Tove Jansson’s life after winning Maeve Binchy Travel Award
- UCD Sutherland School of Law ranked top 50 in latest THE rankings
- Financial Times ranks Smurfit School Executive MBA programme with world’s best
- Universities seek public support to end third level funding crisis
- Fire safety remains real concern after ‘limited’ review in wake of Grenfell tragedy, Oireachtas committee told
- Minister says university leadership key to ensuring gender equality in higher education
- Novelist Anne Enright takes up role as UCD Professor of Creative Writing
September 2018
- Sports anti-doping bodies won’t reform themselves, but nation states can break the deadlock
- Oireachtas committee hears a third of Irish housing should be under public ownership
- President Michael D Higgins opens inaugural Hyde Lecture series at UCD
- Minister launches €22 million SFI research centre focused on advanced manufacturing
- Countdown to lift-off for UCD scientists making Ireland’s first satellite
- Biochemical Engineering alumnus set to chair new HSE oversight Board
- European Pain Federation elects first woman president
- Education Minister Richard Bruton launches RCSI and UCD Malaysia campus
- UCD professor elected Chair of European Food Safety Authority’s Scientific Committee
- Universities launch Charter urging Government to make Irish education best in Europe
- Top of the class as UCD AFC crowned First Division champions
- Alumnus O’Donovan makes history with gold at World Rowing Championships
- University celebrates latest honourary degree recipients
- UCD professors O’Donnell and Tuomey on RIBA shortlist for world's best building
- RTPI Excellence Award for UCD researchers
- Gene therapy breakthrough wins world’s top €1m vision prize
- Smurfit Business School’s MSc ranked seventh worldwide
- QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2019
August 2018
- UCD graduate joins TG4s weather forecasting team
- Conference celebrates Dr Sheila Tinney: first Irish woman awarded PhD in Mathematics
- Biodegradable plastic that goes straight into compost bin could keep Ireland green
- Update on CAO Offers for UCD: Round 2
- UCD Ladies stars determined to use overseas play to build on silver legacy
- New €6.5 million facelift for NovaUCD as new ventures facilities expanded
- Gutsy Ciara Mageean narrowly misses podium finish at European championships
- Ciara Mageean in medal contention as UCD runner cruises into 1500m final at European championships
- Ireland's fairytale World Cup ends with historic silver for UCD athletes
- Giant’s Causeway inspired design wins UCD Future Campus architectural competition
- Prescribing aspirin in early pregnancy could be key in battle against preeclampsia
- Ad Astra trio hoping for podium finish at European championships
- Black Studies focused module at UCD
July 2018
- Yeast used in food prep revealed to be strain behind drug-resistant infections
- Medals flow as UCD athletes affirm their status as best in class
- UCD rowers make a splash at World Championships
- Irish architect Niall McLaughlin vies for UK’s top architecture accolade
- UCD ladies line-up as Ireland preps for its opening game at Hockey World Cup
- UCD alumnus O’Donovan brings home gold at World Rowing Cup
- UCD astrophysicists aid international effort to use ghost particle discovery to crack century-old Cosmic Ray mystery
- Find of a lifetime: Megalithic Passage Tomb Cemetery discovered within Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site
- AAAS award UCD student top prize in international competition
- Greener pastures for international students as IDP expands its global study network with UCD partnership
- Irish fiction Laureate Sebastian Barry inspired to bring book clubs to prisons
- Tackle housing crisis by suspending tenants' right to buy council home, report argues
- Universities require significant core funding increase from State to stave off further declines
- Pokémon Go style avatar to end communication barriers with deaf community
June 2018
- UCD becomes first university in Ireland to ban the sale of sugary drinks
- East meets west as UCD nets €3m from major research deal between Ireland and China
- Architectural titans reveal rival designs for UCD Future Campus
- Start-up aiming to keep cyclists safe through smart lights scoops UCD award
- UCD academic named Ireland’s first ever Corresponding Fellow to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- University College Dublin launches poetry competition to mark 100th anniversary of First World War
- OPEC meetings: why it’s so hard to predict how the oil market will react
- Seán Lemass Interviews: Public invited to step into mind of the ‘Father of Modern Ireland’ as candid collection launches
- Cyclists reign supreme in battle for rush hour commute, UCD study finds
- Top marks for UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business Schools in FT world rankings
- Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood praises UCD alumnus James Joyce ahead of Bloomsday
- UCD astrophysicist aids efforts to capture first glimpse of Black Hole devouring star
- UCD Professor appointed to EU expert group tasked with developing ‘green’ financial system
- UCD's efforts to save the critical endangered giraffe at the heart of new Sky1 documentary
- UCD scholars excel in international award program as eight win Fulbright awards
- UCD A.F.C veteran Tony Sheridan honoured as 'Graduate of Year' at University's Sport Clubs AUC Awards
- Student Union donates over €82,000 to chosen charities after stellar fundraising efforts
- UCD research recognised as three top academics elected to Royal Irish Academy
May 2018
- UCD architecture at La Biennale di Venezia 2018
- New College Principal and Dean of UCD College of Business
- Minister Bruton announces expansion of Amgen Biotech Experience
April 2018
- UCD partners in €30 million bio-refinery research project led by Glanbia Ireland
- €1.4 million in SFI funding awarded to UCD academics
- 26-year-old UCD graduate appointed CEO of Shelbourne FC
- Six student media awards for UCD journalists
- UCD Dramsoc wins three awards at Irish student drama festival
- Finalists shortlisted for UCD Future Campus architectural design competition
- UCD student wins national science communication competition FameLab
- In Memoriam Thomas Joseph Brazil: 1952 - 2018
- President Clinton: “Real democracy not just majority rule” was genius of Good Friday Agreement
- EU chief sometimes "furious" about Brexit
- UCD geneticist first academic in Ireland to receive second ERC Advanced Grant
- UCD claim sixth women's Irish Senior Cup title
- UCD researchers' genetic analysis helps girl (8) to speak again
- Presidential pardon in 1882 murder case after UCD expert review
- Brexit could cut UK beef prices by up to 40%, says UCD Professor
March 2018
- UCD researchers win 10 of 36 Irish Research Council frontier grants
- Royal Irish Acadmey gold medal for UCD geologist
- Award for UCD Professor who created open source software used in labs around the world
- Children benefit when taught social and emotional skills – but some methods are better than others
- National Maternity Hospital and UCD partner to improve health of mums and babies
- Eight UCD academics awarded Royal Irish Academy overseas research grants
- UCD continues to be university of first choice in Ireland
- World-leading academic Professor Murray Hitzman to head €4.7m SFI research programme at UCD
- UCD awarded University of Sanctuary status for refugee fee and work supports
- Would staying in a customs union after Brexit avoid a hard border with Ireland?
- UCD’s Veterinary Science in top 25 and Nursing in top 50 in the QS World Rankings
February 2018
- UCD beat NUIG to reclaim Sigerson Cup title
- UCD students win individual and team prizes at Irish Times Debate
- Minister Zappone launches UCD’s Gender Identity and Expression Policy
- UCD receives funding for STEM workshops for DEIS school students
- UCD professor joins ranks of US National Academy of Engineering
- Horizon 2020 programme to help build resilient communities in Ethiopia
- Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) to open Spring 2019
- UCD lifts Collingwood Cup with stunning injury-time strike
- Scientists unlock the molecular secret behind long-lived bat species
- The next step for suffrage: give all immigrants the right to vote
- SFI President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award for UCD medical researcher
January 2018
- UCD science graduate named CEO of American Institute of Physics
- UCD-based company Fire1 secures €40m from investors to develop heart monitoring system
- Principal Fellowship of UK Higher Education Academy for UCD academic
- Donor steps in to fund new athletics track for University College Dublin
- UCD partners on €8.2 million centre to improve cardiovascular care
- 15% of League of Ireland footballers report concussion, new study finds
- Intel bursaries and employee mentors for UCD graduate students
- UCD to lead €4m project on artificial intelligence with Samsung
- Smurfit team wins world’s largest MBA case competition
- UCD Smurfit Executive Development admitted to elite executive education network UNICON
- UCD-based company O.C.E signs €25m deal for supply of satellite tools to Chinese firm
- Peter Sutherland: 25 April 1946 – 7 January 2018
2017
December 2017
- Honorary degrees for activist, science leader, linguist, justice advocate and finance expert
- IRC Medal of Excellence named in honour of UCD Historian Professor Maurice Bric
- National Folklore Collection at UCD inscribed into UNESCO Memory of the World Register
- UCD Smurfit School rises five places to 24th in latest Financial Times ranking
- Prolego Scientific scoops top €20,000 prize at UCD 2017 Start-up of the Year Awards
- Minister Coveney outlines vision for future of Europe in speech at UCD
November 2017
- UCD graduates win NUI awards for published works in history
- Obese first-time mums more likely to have premature babies
- €4m European Research Council funding for UCD researchers
- UCD awarded highest number of Intel Women in Technology Scholarships
- UCD Professors named on list of world's most highly cited researchers
- 1917–2017: UCD Boat Club celebrates 100 years
- Fellowship of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists for Professor David Brayden
- Ulysses medals for former US ambassador to UN, Samantha Power and Harvard scholar, Cass Sunstein
- UCD honours outstanding graduates with Alumni Awards
- UCD spin-in study examines impact of virtual reality technology on children's health
- Ministers launch UCD research on secondary students' views on education system
- Three UCD students named on All-Star football team of the year
- How can we make cities better places to live, asks new UCD research centre
October 2017
- More than just financial loss, the social impact of gambling cannot be underestimated
- UCD wins cup double at Intervarsity Hockey Championships
- Ecological panic and statelessness as factors in the Holocaust
- Irish America more distant from its cultural roots, study finds
- SFI grants for UCD projects on nanoscience, cattle breeding, bowel disease and communications
- Electric field boost to water flow potentially offers alternative water treatment technology
- Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit School Executive MBA 74th in world
- International scientific teams observe gravitational waves from collision of two neutron stars
- Explainer: what are initial coin offerings (ICOs) and why are investors flocking to them?
- Fellowship of Academy of Social Sciences for UCD Professor of Public Policy
- World renowned MMA coach John Kavanagh honoured by UCD C&E Society
- Older stored blood as safe as fresher blood for transfusions in critically ill adults
September 2017
- Milk yields increase by 9% with use of new technology by UCD spin-out
- UCD AFC stun UEFA Youth League opponents to take 2-1 lead to Norway
- Connected health champion Professor Brian Caulfield wins 2017 NovaUCD Innovation Award
- Lessons from along the Irish border on north-south relations after Brexit
- Excellence of UCD staff recognised by student nominations for teaching awards
- 18 All-Ireland titles - UCD student is now GAA's most successful star
- UCD ranked 75th in QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018
- UCD and Genomics Medicine Ireland launch largest Irish study on genomics in health and fitness
- Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit School's MSc in International Management 15th in world
- UCD to lead two major research centres funded by SFI
- UCD honorary degrees for outstanding contributions to architecture, literature, science, politics and society
August 2017
- NHS trial programme uses UCD Medtech firm's insulin pen accessory
- Points up across business and economy degrees at UCD
- Ireland beat Australia in dramatic opening game of Women’s Rugby World Cup at UCD
- Top prize for UCD spin-out firm Kinesis at US spin-out competition
- University College Dublin hosts pool stages of Women's Rugby World Cup
July 2017
- Ireland wins two bronze medals at International Maths Olympiad
- Fact Check: is being in the single market dependent on membership of the EU?
- Three UCD athletes win gold medals at National Track and Field Championships
- UCD spin-in aims to fund construction of 250 family homes
- 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 vegetable 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
- 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
- Ad Astra Athlete Lanigan O’Keeffe Rio-bound after he wins gold at European Modern Pentathlon Championship
- Gene regulating damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis discovered
- UCD hosts World Rugby Women's Sevens qualifier series
- 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 10,000 years ago in Scottish Highlands
- UCD students and staff come together to represent Ireland at international level in lacrosse
July 2015
- UCD Professor elected President of European Symposium of Organic Chemistry committee
- Golfers complete one-two in prestigious intervarsity tournament at St Andrews
- Mobile analytics startup HeyStaks to create 20 jobs with €1.5 million investment
- Rio awaits as Ad Astra scholar Mark English runs qualifying time for 2016 Olympics
- UCD Energy Institute receives €1.2 million Horizon 2020 grant
- UCD AFC’s Europa League adventure comes to an end
- UCD researcher drives K supercomputer to top of Graph 500 global rankings
- Future stars of UCD and Liverpool meet in Belfield as Students come within inches of draw
- Tánaiste launches pioneering UCD study on the social impact of gambling in Ireland
- UCD professor appointed to National Expert Advisory Council on Climate Change
- Fulbright Awards for UCD scholars
- Student venture GradHow wins inaugural UCD Startup Stars programme
- The Irish Dramatic Revival: the redefinition of Irish theatre and the birth of the Abbey
- President Michael D. Higgins urges leadership and commitment to spirit of Universal Declaration of Human Rights on migration and conflict issues
- UCD AFC victorious in first leg of Europa League tie
- Maeve Binchy UCD Travel Award 2015 Winner: John McHugh
- Software firm at NovaUCD secures €1 million investment
- Cancer biologist at UCD awarded distinguished ‘For Women in Science’ scholarship
- Political philosopher Pettit says enriching ‘ecology’ of collective responsibility could help solve important global issues
June 2015
- New book casts fresh light on the classic work of James Joyce
- Memorial Service - UCD Belfield Church
- UCD President Andrew Deeks expresses heartbreak at news of tragic student loss and injury in Berkeley
- UCD student selected for NASA internship programme
- UCD leads international research project investigating effects of gravity on aluminium-based alloy solidification
- Nine UCD rugby players represent Ireland at under-20 world championship in Italy
- Royal Irish Academy honours UCD academics
May 2015
- UCD cellular biologist awarded Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Award for PhD study aimed at reducing maternal mortality rate in Zambia
- UCD contributes €1.3 Billion annually to Irish economy, report shows
- UCD student wins Royal Society of Chemistry online video competition
- Minister Bruton launches UCD-based €5 million Connected Health Technology Centre
- Twelve UCD students selected for World University Games
- Ireland to host Women’s Rugby World Cup 2017
- Three student media awards make it a proud year for the University Observer
- UCD AFC awarded place in next season's UEFA Europa League
- Engineering and sport collide in raucous RoboRugby pitch battle
- Minister Donohoe announces €2.5m in funding for UCD’s ‘Ulysses Centre’
- UCD Dramsoc sweeps the boards at student drama awards
- Physics and art students exhibit collaborative work
April 2015
- World War I diaries of Fr Francis Gleeson digitised and published online
- UCD connected health researcher wins 2015 Google wearables in healthcare pilot challenge
- UCD students selected for Washington Ireland Program 2015
- EU Commissioners, Carlos Moedas and Phil Hogan visit UCD
- First prize at Alltech Innovation Competition for UCD students
- Dave Billings – A Tribute
- UCD opens global centre in US
- Minister Heather Humphreys launches UCD Decade of Centenaries programme
March 2015
- University College Dublin scoops two of four major awards at Knowledge Transfer Ireland 2015 Impact Awards
- ERC consolidator grants for two UCD researchers
- Minister officially opens new Clinical Skills and Education Centre for Penang Medical College
- Life Scientific to create 20 new jobs at NovaUCD
- UCD business, law, architecture, engineering and social science increase first preferences
- President Higgins visits the National Folklore Collection at UCD
- Cystic Fibrosis discovery may lead to new treatment strategy to help patients breathe easier
February 2015
- Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Milk” and “J. Edgar”, Dustin Lance Black honoured by UCD Law Society
- UCD student scoops individual winner award at Irish Times debate
- New UCD spin-out company wins ESA contract to assist with big data challenges of mapping the Milky Way galaxy
- Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, Launches the UCD Beacon Hospital Academy
- Extension of the Athena SWAN Charter for women in science to the higher education sector in Ireland
- Malocclusion and dental crowding arose 12,000 years ago with earliest farmers, study shows
- New foundation aims to protect and preserve Irish folklore heritage
January 2015
- Anne Enright named as first Laureate for Irish fiction
- Financial Times MBA rankings places UCD Smurfit School 73rd in the world
- UCD’s Professor Peter Clinch appointed Chair of National Competitiveness Council
- Irish PEN Award for Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
- UCD in line for Europa League qualifying place
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