News & Opinion

2022

October 2022

• Opinion: Europe has never had a global voice – but that may be changing with rise of digital media
• EIRSAT-1: Ireland's first satellite moves step closer with UN registration

September 2022

• Brian Mullins: 1954 - 2022
• €3 million anonymous donation sees opening of new athletics track at Belfield
• Budget 2023 delivers one-off fee cut of €1,000 for undergraduate students
• Minister Harris: Advance Centre is delivering the skills to future-proof Irish industries
• Institute of Chemistry of Ireland welcomes Professor Pat Guiry as President
• Historic appointment as UCD law alum is named first female President of the European Court of Human Rights
• CAO Round 2 2022: UCD makes 311 offers
• COALESCE: Nine UCD projects awarded IRC funding to confront major societal challenges
• Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin is the New College Principal for Arts and Humanities
• UCD AgTech Spin-out Proveye awarded funding from the European Space Agency
• Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit School’s MSc in International Management in global top 10
• Ulysses Medal: Celebrated Irish musician Paul Brady awarded UCD's highest honour
• Athena SWAN recognises College of Business and Schools of Computer Science and History
• CAO Round 1 2022: UCD points rise in 18 out of 35 entry routes
• Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may be detectable years before illnesses begin
• Health tech start-up xWave Technologies closes €1.3 million seed funding round
• IRC awards over 25 UCD postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers Enterprise Partnership funding
• University College Dublin announces search for next President
• Historic partnership between Howard University and UCD Smurfit School
• UCD Energy Institute recognised for its “exceptional performance” on decarbonising energy systems

August 2022

• UCD receives highest number of funded projects as €28.5m is invested in Ireland’s emerging research talent
• Children’s School Lives: ‘Disconnect’ between parents and teachers on what skills are important
• Ireland's fastest man: UCD sprinter Israel Olatunde makes history at European Championships
• US pharma giant West invests in UCD spin-out Latch Medical
• UCD track star Luke McCann claims 1000m national record ahead of European Championships
• Opinion: London 2012 - What the Olympic Games’ legacy of sustainability means for events today
• Safety risk as feeding wild animals linked to artificial selection of harassment behaviour
• UCD Ad Astra athletes selected to represent Ireland at the European Championships

July 2022

• Conveying Space - Exhibition commemorating 50 years of UCD at Belfield opens at MoLI
• NovaUCD-based agritech start-up CropBiome secures €1.3m investment
• Three in a row as UCD claims third successive Senior Eights title at the Irish Rowing Championships
• COVID-19 Nursing Home Expert Panel: Final Progress Report sees Government commit to ‘reform for older persons' care’
• One-in-five Long COVID patients suffer anxiety, depression, and PTSD, Oireachtas Committee hears
• Higher levels of inbreeding significantly lowers chances horses will race, new study finds
• Association of Applied Biologists: UCD Professor Olaf Schmidt given Honorary Membership for Life

June 2022

• PERITIA: Irish people less concerned about climate change than health care or housing
• Career HR Start-Up wins NovaUCD’s 2022 Student Enterprise Competition
• UCD team wins Engineers Without Borders' Design Challenge
• 3Set: New student counselling database authored by UCD helps increase HEI mental health support
• Law alumnus Justice David Barniville appointed new High Court President
• UCD AgSoc gifts €60,000 to chosen charities
• Fulbright Awards: UCD scholars selected for coveted transatlantic prize
• PERITIA: Majority of Irish people felt Government’s COVID-19 response aimed to protect own reputation
• UCD Ad Astra star Lara Gillespie receives Paris Olympic Scholarship award ahead of 2024 Summer Games
• UCD student wins 2022 Mary Mulvihill Award 
• Six UCD projects improving public understanding of STEM funded under SFI Discover Programme
• PERITIA: Almost one in three Irish people believe the Government exaggerated COVID-19 deaths
• UCD Ad Astra track stars Sarah Healy and Darragh McElhinney shatter U23 historic records

May 2022

• Opinion: 5 ways entrepreneurs can become more psychologically resilient
• Opinion: Why Denmark is voting on its defence relationship with the EU – and what it says about democracy in Europe
• Nearly half of Irish public does not trust the Government to be honest or tell the truth, according to new UCD study
• Student entrepreneurs compete in NovaUCD’s 2022 Start-up Programme
• UCD scholarship recognised as five top academics elected to Royal Irish Academy
• Smurfit Executive Development leaps to 31st globally in latest Financial Times rankings
• Opinion: Facebook Dating was set to take over the market – instead it was dead in the water
• Impact 2030: National blueprint for Ireland's research and innovation will provide new 'opportunities'
• Opinion: Why families fight over inheritances – and how to avoid it
• UCD track stars receive support as Athletics Ireland targets championships
• SFI Future Frontiers awards 19 funding grants to UCD researchers
• A seminarian's journey to St Petersburg wins 2021 UCD Maeve Binchy Travel Award
• UCD Energy Institute leads new €16m research partnership aimed at decarbonising energy sector
• New UCD service for staff and students disclosing bullying or sexual harassment is opened
• Una Europa: University College Dublin and Universität Zürich joins alliance of leading European research universities
• Home retrofits may need to be re-done in ten years, Oireachtas committee hears
• UCD spin-out PlasmaBound completes €2.35m funding round

April 2022

• UCD claim Collingwood Cup for 48th time with 2-1 win over Queen's
• UCD receives majority of ERC Advanced Grants awarded to Ireland in 2021 competition
• Opinion: Ukraine - A divided America seeks moral clarity in a war against democracy
• UCD Dramsoc wins big at Irish student drama festival
• UCD researchers secure prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships
• The New York Public Library's Cullman Center names Professor Margaret Kelleher 2022 Fellow
• Four top-50s and 42 world-ranked subjects for UCD in 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject
• University College Dublin signs Memorandum of Understanding with Queen’s to strengthen collaboration
• Six UCD researchers awarded SFI Industry RD&I Fellowships
• UCD awarded 'Gold Level' certification as a cycle friendly employer
• UCD AFC and UCDSU partners with JIGSAW to display logo on Student's home kit

March 2022

• US digital health firm acquires UCD spin-out
• Professor Dominic Zerulla wins NovaUCD’s 2022 Innovation Award
• Irish music artists awarded honorary degrees for outstanding contribution to arts and culture
• FOOD-I: UCD co-chairs on All-Island initiative to ensure food security
• NovaUCD partners with IADT to launch €1.6m programme to support Early-Stage Start-ups
• Professor Kenneth Dawson elected to 2022 AIMBE College of Fellows
• New UCD Acting Registrar and Deputy President, Professor Barbara Dooley
• Opinion: Four ways pensions still fail to support staff who are young, low paid and part time
• Opinion: NFTs: one year after Beeple sale, non-fungible tokens have become mainstream
• Global study finds gene variants that could help improve outcomes in severe COVID-19 patients
• CAO patterns return to 2020 levels
• CeADAR: Bronagh Riordan announced as first female chair of any Irish technology centre
• Healthy bee population is financial boon for Ireland's apple growers, suggests UCD research
• UCD Quinn School student Altamash Shaikh wins Nobel Scholarship
• President’s Award: Eighteen students honoured for their service to UCD community
• Fourteen UCD projects awarded funding under €37m North-South research call
• Blue Carbon research receives €2.6m to investigating how marine habitats reduce greenhouse emissions
• UCD track and field stars bring home the gold at National Indoor Championships
• Irish Critical Care-Clinical Trials Network wins 2021 UCD Research Impact Award
• Earthworms have the potential to replace use of synthetic fertilisers, new research suggests

February 2022

• University statement on Ukraine
• Mastering Wordle is all about sticking with it and starting strong, suggests UCD analysis 
• UCD's Sarah Healy breaks U23 record, running second fastest Irish 1,500m ever
• Opinion: Passionate about your job? Here’s why that might not be good for you
• UCD-lead research teams chosen to find disruptive ideas for Irish Defence Forces
• “You Can Be What You Can See” - New role-model video series to encourage girls to consider pSTEM careers
• Pan-European 'supergrid' could cut 32% from energy costs, says new UCD study
• UCD Archaeology builds new early Medieval roundhouse after arson fire
• UCD School of Medicine urges support for WHO efforts to end global COVID-19 vaccine inequities

January 2022

• Opinion: The cognitive bias that tripped us up during the pandemic
• UCD Associate Professor Vivienne Duggan elected Veterinary Council of Ireland President
• Winners revealed for AgTechUCD’s inaugural Accelerator Programme for start-ups
• UCD Ad Astra Scholar Béibhinn Parsons wins Player of the Year for second year running
• Neolithic cattle site could change the understanding of what beef meant to the ancient people of Ireland
• Horizon Europe Starting Grants awarded to UCD Arts & Humanities researchers
• Aoife Beary: 15 June 1994 - 1 January 2022
• Ruth Ferguson 29 January 1963 – 25 December 2021

2021

December 2021

• Council of the European Union appoints Professor Suzanne Kingston as CJEU judge
• UCD quantum computing spin-out secures €10m in EIC Accelerator funding
• UCD appoints Dr Sandra Collins as Librarian
• Irish Research Council welcomes Professor Colin Scott as member
• Smurfit Business School named CEMS School of the Year
• Opinion: The results of European football matches are becoming more predictable
• UCD Veterinary School appeals for blood donations from dogs
• UCD Spin-out OncoMark acquired by US molecular diagnostic firm
• Eight awardees honoured for excellence at UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards
• Darragh McElhinney takes silver as well as team gold at European Cross Country Championships
• University College Dublin and University of California, Davis sign MoU for new PhD Innovator Fellowship programme
• Poolbeg Pharma signs option agreement with University College Dublin for melioidosis vaccine
• UCD President, Professor Andrew J Deeks to take up new appointment at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
• Professor Michelle Norris wins Irish Research Council’s 2021 Impact Award
• Majority of junior infants “excited or happy” to be in school, new UCD research shows
• Go Eve: EV charging start-up wins UCD’s 2021 Start-Up of the Year
• UCD Library's COVID response celebrated at 2021 UCD Values in Action Awards

November 2021

• UCD AFC returns to Premier Division winning promotion-relegation play-off against Waterford
• Professor Anding Zhu elevated to IEEE Fellow
• UCD Women’s Rugby Club wins SSI IRFU Division 1 League
• UCD graduate who co-developed COVID-19 vaccine honoured at 2021 UCD Alumni Awards
• Professor Anne Enright elected to Aosdána for outstanding contributions to the creative arts
• UCD researchers among 2021 global list of most influential
• ISSDA appointed national service provider as Ireland joins CESSDA - Europe's social science research consortium
• UCD spin-out PEARlabs wins 'Viewers’ Choice Award' at Enterprise Ireland’s 2021 Big Ideas
• Culinary archaeologist wins big at Irish Food Writing Awards
• Housing Minister visits Belfield’s new HFA funded student accommodation
• Professor William Gallagher named Science Foundation Ireland’s Researcher of the Year
• Seven UCD researchers awarded IRC funding under COALESCE programme to confront societal challenges

October 2021

• UCD secures €350m from European Investment Bank for major capital investment in Belfield campus
• Taoiseach opens new €6.7m NovaUCD expansion
• UCD and Zurich Ireland partner on national programme to address education inequality
• British Ecological Society awards 'Founders Prize' to UCD researcher
• UCD PhD student wins Universitas 21 Three Minute Thesis Competition
• UCD Library provides free sanitary products to help tackle period poverty
• Government of Ireland awards - 69 UCD postgrad and postdoc researchers receive funding
• Aspiring novelist to explore human trafficking in India with Maeve Binchy Travel Award
• Patients to benefit as UCD CRC receives €5.3m for expanded clinical trials
• UCD Silicon Quantum Computing Spin-Out Receives Multimillion Euro Venture Capital Investment
• Opinion: Social media is reducing climate change debates to your views on veganism

September 2021

• UCD continues as Number 1 in Ireland in QS World University Graduate Employability Rankings
• AgTech and FoodTech start-ups chosen for UCD's new Accelerator programme
• CAO Round 2: UCD makes 268 offers
• Enterprise Ireland: UCD PhD student wins 2021 Young Innovator Award
• Near 5,000 cycle parking space now available across Belfield and Blackrock campuses
• Artists-in-Residence Dónal Lunny, Jenny Jennings and Mark O’Halloran welcomed to UCD
• Financial Times rates UCD Smurfit School's MSc in International Management third best in world
• Debut novel by UCD creative writing graduate set for release
• CAO Round 1 2021: Points for all UCD degrees rise in line with higher Leaving Certificate points
• UCD celebrates a week of on-campus graduations
• UniCoV: Volunteers needed for pilot campus testing programme that could limit COVID-19 outbreaks

August 2021

• ‘Poetry as Commemoration’ - New partnership for Decade of Centenaries with Irish Poetry Reading Archive
• Fifteen UCD research projects receive funding in €7.9m IRC Enterprise investment
• UCD AgSoc gifts €15,000 to charity despite COVID-19 restrictions hampering fundraising drive
• UCD tech spin-out Output Sports eyes expansion into international soccer market
• President’s Award: Seventeen students honoured for “exemplary service” to UCD community
• Paralympics 2020: Alumni trio fly the flag for Ireland at Tokyo Games
• UCD e-Scooter spin-in Zipp Mobility raises €1.3m in funding drive to support expansion plans
• C-QuEST: New quantum research centre opens at University College Dublin
• UCD team using AI to help diagnose preeclampsia toxaemia wins a SFI Future Innovator Prize

July 2021

• Olympics 2020: Gold for Ireland as UCD alumnus Paul O’Donovan rows into Irish sporting history
• Olympics 2020: UCD graduate Eimear Lambe wins Ireland's first medal in Tokyo
• Olympics 2020: Record number of UCD Ad Astra alumni and students qualify for Tokyo Games
• Opinion: Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency’, what we’ll discover when this NFT art project is over
• Reform of 'discretionary' tax expenditures could soften financial costs of COVID, Oireachtas committee hears
• Upsurge in applications pushes UCD first preferences to 10,265 for July CAO closing date
• GUIDE: UCD birth study one of the first Irish-led research infrastructures to achieve ESFRI Roadmap status
• HIPPOCRATES: UCD leads new €21 million EU project into psoriatic arthritis research

June 2021

• UK regulator RCVS formally accredits UCD veterinary degree
• Opinion: COVID-19 - The first study to look at whether fake news actually changes people’s behaviour
• Opinion: COVID vaccine trials were a triumph – now we need a similar system for antibiotics
• Professor Eamonn Walsh: 1960 - 2021
• UCD and National Library of Ireland announce Geoffrey Keating as New Chair of Museum of Literature Ireland
• President Higgins becomes latest poet to contribute to Irish Poetry Reading Archive
• Quiz software that augments human memory wins NovaUCD’s 2021 Student Enterprise Competition
• Insights: Flesh-eating bugs - New research shows how carrion beetles turn death into life
• UCD project aiming to make dairy farms climate neutral awarded €2m Future Innovator Prize
• New UCD accelerator programme for AgTech and FoodTech start-ups launches
• Fulbright Awards: Eight UCD scholars selected for coveted transatlantic prize
• UCD Professor Orla Feely inaugurated as President of Engineers Ireland
• 'See the world through the eyes of your patient' - UCD School of Medicine confers 237 graduates
• CNN and University College Dublin team up to train next generation of journalists
• Reach for the Stars: UCD PhD student wins DIAS’s inaugural astrophotography contest

May 2021

• New UCD technique using artificial intelligence can detect cancerous tissue in real time
• Eleven early-stage ventures compete to win NovaUCD’s 2021 Student Enterprise Competition
• 'Vaccines alone cannot end this' - Oireachtas committee hears good ventilation key to suppressing COVID-19
• O’Reilly Hall to act as Dublin's fifth COVID-19 vaccination centre
• Rose Garden memorial bench for Old Man Belfield
• Royal Irish Academy invites six UCD academics to sign members' book
• United Nations Academic Impact welcomes University College Dublin as new member
• President Higgins praises students' 'spirit of humanity' that kept Ireland's most vulnerable safe
• UCD marine ecology expert appointed as new chair of National Biodiversity Forum
• UCD Ladies Hockey names former Irish International Lisa Jacob as 1st Team Head Coach
• Irish language expert Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin appointed new Chair of Foras na Gaeilge
• Global law firm Linklaters appoints UCD alumna as first female senior partner
• RIA awards Emeritus Professor Mary E. Daly with Ireland's highest scholarly honour
• Opinion: How sex work has been affected by the pandemic
• University College Dublin partners with Atlantic Bridge to create €80m University Bridge Fund II
• Debut novel by UCD creative writing graduate is snapped up by Viking
• National COVID-19 wastewater surveillance programme following UCD pilot testing

April 2021

• New app for wildlife enthusiasts as part of Ireland's first nationally-coordinated deer monitoring project
• UCD spearheads global project to help children adjust to COVID pandemic
• UCD research partnerships receive over €22m from Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund
• MoLI's creative partnership celebrated at 2021 Business to Arts Awards
• ERC Advanced Grant for UCD project exploring impact of women and minorities on modern architecture
• UCD places 22 in Times Higher Education Impact Ranking for UN Sustainability Goals
• Latest edition of UCD Today published, Spring 2021
• Opinion: How Taiwan beat COVID-19 – new study reveals clues to its success
• COVID-19: Nursing and residential homes "borne the brunt” of pandemic deaths in Ireland
• Ten UCD projects among record number of Irish Research Council awards to support communities
• UCD artist-in-residence Lorna Donlon wins Ireland's largest art prize

March 2021

• Crop scientist wins NovaUCD’s 2021 Innovation Award
• Shaping the Future – University College Dublin launches new Research, Innovation and Impact strategy
• UCD professor named among the world's most influential people in gender policy
• UCD teaching staff recognised at 2019-2020 excellence awards
• Institute of Physics Juno Practitioner status for UCD School of Physics
• NovaUCD joins ESA consortium to support space industry start-ups
• Fidesz’s exit from the European People’s Party could increase support for EU fundamental values
• UCD professor wins top award from Institute of Chemistry of Ireland
• CAO figures reflect anomalies caused by COVID-19, Brexit and demographic increase
• Prison mental health research wins UCD Impact Case Study Competition
• Four UCD subjects in top 50 QS World University Rankings by Subject
• NFT art: The bizarre world where burning a Banksy can make it more valuable

February 2021

• Higher risk of childhood obesity associated with low quality diet during pregnancy
• UCD sprinter twice breaks Irish 60m records at European Championship qualifiers
• COVID-19: UCD leads Irish element of EU-wide effort to accelerate vaccine trials
• Professor Geraldine Butler elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
• UCD teams shortlisted for SFI's €4m Future Innovator Prize challenge
• New aggressive surgery approach improves ovarian cancer survival rates
• UCD undertakes new €400,000 accessibility project to support students with disabilities
• New pregnancy healthy eating app backed by UCD clinical research
• UCD-hosted Applied Geosciences Research Centre receives €28 million SFI investment

January 2021

• Ineffective age restrictions methods are putting children at risk on social media
• Opinion: Mother and baby homes inquiry - Now reveal the secrets of Ireland’s psychiatric hospitals
• Opinion: 'America is back’: The delusion of normalcy that haunts the United States
• UCD Ad Astra Scholar Béibhinn Parsons named Irish Rugby Writers Women’s Player of the Year
• Opinion: Ethereum - what is it and why has the price gone parabolic?
• European researchers collaborate to prevent risks to transport infrastructure
• UCD sets new record for number of 1st year students from DEIS schools
• Significant fall in number of expectant women choosing private maternity car

2020

December 2020

• Dr Laurence G. Crowley: 1937 – 2020
• Irish marine life at risk UCD expert tells Oireachtas committee
• C-Space: First of its kind hub for collaborative space research and innovation launches at UCD
• Opinion: Charley Pride – country music has obscured and marginalised its black roots
• Sixteen UCD COVID-19 projects share in €6m funding windfall
• Anxiety fears for school children, new UCD research
• UCD researchers recognised at IRC’s Annual Research Awards
• UCD architectural graduate wins RIBA President's Medal
• Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit among Europe's best business schools
• UCD spin-out epiCaPture lauded as it wins 2020 Start-Up of the Year Award
• UCD graduate is latest member of TG4's weather forecasting team
• Japanese government awards commendation to UCD historian

November 2020

• UCD embeds UN SDGs across education, research, governance and engagement
• Horizon 2020: UCD led WeCount project allows Irish households to record outside traffic
• Triumph as UCD wins right to represent Ireland with ESB Inter-Colleges Challenge victory
• UCD spin-out AquaB wins global chemical engineering award
• UCD researchers named among world’s most influential
• UCD spin-out secures EU funding for drone project mapping threatened habitats
• Opinion: Four traps governments fall into when making decisions about Coronavirus lockdowns
• Extinction risks revealed as scientists crack largest ever set of mammalian genomes
• Opinion: Microbes might be gatekeepers of the planet’s greatest greenhouse gas reserves
• UCD professors appointed to EU Commission Platform on Sustainable Finance
• Two UCD researchers win 2020 Science Foundation Ireland Mentorship Awards
• Opinion: Why was Ireland the first European country to go back into lockdown – and will it work?
• Opinion: Wallabies are on the loose in Britain – and we’ve mapped 95 sightings
• Fourteen UCD research projects secure €10.2 million funding through SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme
• Opinion: As the world watches US election, the appeal of America is diminished

October 2020

• UCD video series commemorates centenary of execution of Kevin Barry
• UCD leading academic partner on €2.4m COVID-19 project to support new surgical technologies
• Oireachtas committee hears 'weak' Climate Bill is not robust enough to deliver Ireland's desired emission cuts
• UCD remains No. 1 in Ireland in US News & World Report's Best Global University Rankings
• UCD and Zurich partnership to bridge academic divide in Irish education
• New research shows obesity among Irish primary school children decreasing annually
• UCD mathematician named winner of Maths Week Ireland Award for raising public awareness
• UCD spin-out SiriusXT and researchers awarded €2.35m to examine virus pathways
• Dr Margaret MacCurtain: 1929 - 2020
• NCAD, IADT and UCD consortium receives €10 million funding for Creative Futures Academy
• UCD Ad Astra's Lara Gillespie comes out on top at National Senior Championships

September 2020

• Belfield 50 launched with outdoor campus exhibitions
• UCD delivers Ireland's first dedicated national training programme for Special Needs Assistants
• UCD receives Athena SWAN Bronze institutional accreditation for work towards gender equality 
• Eight UCD projects awarded €1.5m to help respond to COVID-19 pandemic
• Greater transparency over COVID-19 restrictions needed to encourage 'buy-in' from young people, Oireachtas committee hears 
• CAO Round 2 2020: UCD offers places on 22 programmes
• Parental rejection of sexual orientation and gender identity 'trigger' for youth homelessness, new study finds
• UCD Ladies finish hockey season with Senior Cup victory
• UCD's Sports Management MSc ranked amongst world's best in new global survey
• UCD spin-in wins Best Overall Start-up at 2020 Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Awards
• Demons of the Deep State: How evangelicals and conspiracy theories combine in Trump’s America
• UCD AgSoc raises €60,000 for charity despite COVID-19 restrictions 
• Brexit: Why US politicians are opposed to Boris Johnson’s latest move
• CAO Round 1 2020: UCD increases first year places by 7% in effort to adjust for Leaving Cert grades and increased demand for degree places
• Minister’s nominees announced for appointment to UCD Governing Authority
• How Trump’s America changed political satire – for both liberals and conservatives
• Global hydrocortisone trial sees steroid reduce death in sickest COVID-19 patients

August 2020

• UCD astronomers prove decades old theory on how young stars grow
• Jeffrey Sachs: 'No country should have to choose between paying its debt or fighting the COVID-19 pandemic'
• UCD athletes display their best in class status at National Championships
• One in three gained weight during the COVID-19 lock down, according to new national study
• UCD NVRL study finds COVID-19 infection rate in Ireland three times higher than detected cases 
• Department of Health publishes report of the COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, chaired by UCD Professor
• UCD projects secure €1.1m IRC funding for enterprise-focused research
• Professor Brian Fynes: 1959-2020
• NovaUCD's Zipp Mobility approved for UK e-scooter trials
• Warnings about COVID-19 misinformation are being ignored, new study suggests 
• UCD agritech spin-out MagGrow raises €6m in new investment call
• President Deeks welcomes national guidelines for return to campus in September

July 2020

• New research shows sub-set of critically unwell COVID-19 patients respond to treatment with tocilizumab
• It’s a myth that companies must put shareholders first – coronavirus is a chance to make it stop
• Solar-powered animal tracker transforms how researchers collect data on animals in wild
• Scientists crack the genetic code of how bats survive viruses
• Debate needed on the potential culling of crows and foxes to protect Europe's declining ground-nesting birds
• UCD team takes top prize at this year's Engineering for People Design Challenge
• Soapbox Science 2020: Top female researchers give virtual insight into their work in STEMM
• First preferences break through 9,000 in 2020 CAO applications as UCD remains university-of-first-choice in Ireland
• UCD sets out plan for autumn trimester
• Recovery podcast: Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis for our coronavirus recovery today
• 22% of parents avoided accessing healthcare for their children over COVID-19 concerns, national survey finds

June 2020

• UCD Smurfit Executive MBA achieves highest placement yet in QS World University Rankings
• Ireland must prepare for “inevitable” COVID-19 resurgence, Oireachtas committee hears
• Soft x-ray researcher Dr Fergal O'Reilly wins 2019 NovaUCD Innovation Award
• Tsunamis pose significant hazard to the south eastern and western coasts of Ireland, new study suggests
• Microscopic animals are busy distributing microplastics throughout the world’s soil
• UCD Spin-out PlasmaBound secures €1.1 million investment
• Fitness tracker data could predict your marathon performance, new UCD research
• Online service for students building Formula-1 style cars wins 2020 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition
• Failure to tackle poverty costs Ireland €4.5bn annually, UCD report finds
• University College Dublin partners to create Ireland’s first National Preclinical Imaging Centre
• UCD Spin-out SiriusXT awarded €4.5m in EU funding to aid coronavirus research
• Fulbright Irish Awards: Ten UCD scholars selected for coveted transatlantic prize
• COVID-19: Irish people need to resist tendency of going into work sick if upsurge is to be avoided Oireachtas Committee hears
• UCD-led projects aimed at 'reopening Ireland' receive SFI COVID-19 funding
• UCD up eight places to 177 in QS World University Rankings
• Community service and suspended sentences have significant impact on reoffending, UCD study finds
• UCD obesity experts take leading role in new €16m EU research consortium

May 2020

• UCD expert calls for COVID-19 safety incentives for businesses to help better protect workers
• Minister for Health announces the establishment of a COVID-19 Nursing Home Expert Panel
• UCD scholarship recognised as six top academics elected to Royal Irish Academy
• Disposable income drops by 25% due to COVID-19 pandemic, Consumer Market Monitor reports
• World Cup hockey ace Lena Tice named 'UCD Sportsperson of the Year'
• Humboldt Foundation names UCD scholar as 2020 Reimar Lüst Prize winner
• Opinion: Living with bunker builders - doomsday prepping in the age of coronavirus
• Coronavirus: Europe struggles to adapt to a post-American world
• Future Innovator Prize: UCD teams compete for €5m SFI funding challenge
• Zoom fatigue - How to make video calls less tiring
• Financial Times ranks UCD Smurfit School among the best European business schools
• Latest edition of UCD Today, the University's magazine, goes digital only amid COVID-19 crisis
• UCD welcomes Minister’s Leaving Certificate examinations announcement and confirms first year trimester start
• El Chapo is no Robin Hood but social bandit myth still endures in Latin America
• Novel nanoscale imaging project awarded special SFI Future Innovator Prize
• COVID-19: UCD leads on Irish clinical trials testing if blood thinners can help patients avoid ICU
• Universitas 21: Irish higher education sector remains one of the lowest funded in terms of GDP
• CeADAR makes AI projects available for free to support COVID-19 R&D activities
• UCD School of Medicine celebrates virtual conferring of 228 graduates

April 2020

• UCD announces two new international colleges in China
• Five UCD Led Research Projects Awarded COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
• Corporations could learn a lot from health workers says UCD corporate governance expert
• UCD ranked 34 in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings on UN SDGs
• COVID-19 school closures risk worsening existing educational inequalities
• Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz awarded honorary life membership of UCD Economics Society
• Airflow video shows how easily coronavirus can be spread by coughing
• HSE doubles COVID-19 testing capacity through UCD NVRL to 10,000 following GMI agreement
• UCD Centre for Emergency Medical Science fills in PPE knowledge gap
• UCD researcher co-leads €4.5m project to use cold plasma to treat Orthopaedic infection
• Volunteers use 3D printing to produce PPE for front-line COVID-19 medical staff
• UCD engineer leads Irish efforts in global race to build ventilators
• Covid-19: UCD professor leads Irish clinical trials as part of global effort against the virus

March 2020

• ERC funds big data study on how migration impacted Victorian identity and culture
• Forbes ‘30 under 30 Europe' recognises two UCD graduates
• Two UCD Schools receive Athena SWAN awards for gender equality commitment
• Opinion: Philosopher in Italian coronavirus lockdown on how to think positively about isolation
• Irish judges 'frustrated' by lack of reform to ease burden on jurors, new research reveals
• Professor Aidan Moran 1957-2020
• UCD maintains number 1 position as university-of-first-choice for CAO applicants
• Criminology found a home at UCD after 30 years in wilderness, Mountjoy Prison conference hears
• Future Research Leaders Awards for three early-career UCD researchers
• ERC funded research investigates social polarisation around sexual and gender rights
• UCD law student crowned ‘Best Individual Speaker’ at 60th Irish Times Debate final
• A Nation’s wellbeing: Why GDP alone may not be the answer
• QS World University Rankings: UCD ranked number 1 in Ireland in 15 subjects – up 2 from 13 in 2019
• Pritzker Prize Laureates: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara receive architecture's highest honour
• University College Dublin takes home Great Agri-food Debate trophy for fourth time
• LOFAR Radio Galaxy Zoo: Public asked to help trace giant black holes at centre of galaxies

February 2020

• Drone food delivery to be piloted on UCD campus
• Bystander intervention workshops introduced to help combat sexual harassment
• Resilience to bovine TB traced to key genes in immune cells 
• Opinion: Sinn Féin’s rise in Irish politics is down to three big economic reasons
• UCD heat-resistant coating to allow ESA’s Solar Orbiter to get up close and personal with the Sun
• UCD expert chairs Advisory Group tasked with providing advice on the Coronavirus
• Experts warn the big parties have ‘lost sight’ of climate crisis with bonanza manifestos

January 2020

• NovaUCD secures €3m to develop AgTech hub at UCD Lyons Farm
• Genetic data shows increased inbreeding in Thoroughbreds may compromise future sustainability of breed

2019

December 2019

• Oireachtas committee: Farmers should champion the planting of forests to tackle climate change
• Chemical giant DuPont acquires UCD spin-out OxyMem
• Altmetric Top 100: UCD-led study ranked 21st most discussed research of 2019
• Four UCD research projects share in €65m disruptive technologies windfall
• Vulnerable adults ‘falling through the cracks’ due to poor safeguarding laws, UCD research finds
• UCD Strategy 2020-2024: Rising to the Future
• UCD Smurfit Business School number one in Ireland in latest Financial Times European Business Schools Rankings
• Professor David Farrell wins Irish Research Council’s Impact Award
• Associate Professor Emilie Pine wins UCD Research 2019 Impact Competition
• UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards recognises the best in Irish business journalism
• University College Dublin to host IAU 16th General Conference in 2020

November 2019

• Precision Oncology Ireland - Researchers at UCD take academic lead on new €12m collaborative project
• UCD law students triumph at 10th National Moot Court Competition
• University honours notable graduates at 2019 UCD Alumni Awards
• UCD partnerships win two Knowledge Transfer Ireland Impact Awards
• Steep rise in young people reporting anxiety in Ireland, UCD report finds
• UCD researchers named among world's top 1% of influential scientists
• Traveller accommodation crisis as Oireachtas committee hears community accounts for almost 10% of Dublin's homeless
• SFI Researcher of the Year and Entrepreneurship Award for UCD professors
• UCD named The Sunday Times University of the Year 2020

September 2019

• Hello MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland officially opens to public
• UCD and QBI, at University of California, San Francisco, partners to strengthen bioscience research
• Refugee children need greater support to aid Irish integration, report claims
• Opinion: Yemen’s Houthis – and why they’re not simply a proxy of Iran
• UCD number 1 in Ireland in QS World University Employability Rankings
• Blindsided by bureaucracy - How administrative burden is cutting America’s safety net
• UCD spin-out wins Best Business Idea at Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur Awards
• University celebrates honorary degree recipients at summer conferring 
• IAIS award for UCD Professor Catherine Godson
• Author Frank Ormsby named Ireland's Professor of Poetry
• UCD Press and University of Chicago Press sign historic partnership
• Aspiring novelist to explore ‘Emerald Isle of the Caribbean‘ after Maeve Binchy Travel Award win
• UCD Moore Centre opens for business as Quinn School unveils €20m extension

August 2019

• €100 million investment under Project Ireland 2040 for five major building projects in higher education institutions
• UCD CAO Round 2 offers
• Opinion: Boris Johnson must change his negotiating tactics to avoid no-deal Brexit – EU treaty-making experts
• Accounting ‘Hall of Fame’ honour for UCD corporate governance expert
• DN670 Economics & Finance breaks 600-point entry marker as UCD first round CAO offers go live
• Irish holiday-goers to splash out €6.5 billion on trips in 2019, CMM reports
• Irish-based astrophysicists measure key cosmic step in formation of early stars
• Newgrange: UCD archaeologists discover almost 40 new monuments at Brú na Bóinne
• Opinion: How Brexit is leading a resurgent Irish American influence in US politics

July 2019

• Green innovator Professor Kevin O’Connor named to EU Horizon Europe mission board
• Eroding trust in experts to be quizzed as UCD researchers awarded €3m Horizon 2020 grant
• Irish Universities Association calling for €377m in Budget 2020 to prep Ireland’s universities for future challenges
• UCD researcher secures ERC ‘Proof-of-Concept’ grant to tackle Parkinson’s disease
• Sports Management MSc globally ranked amongst best in class
• Professor Da-Wen Sun tops list of world’s most cited researchers in Agricultural Sciences
• UCD to partner RTÉ Radio 1’s DAVIS NOW LECTURE 2019 series
• UCD remains university-of-first-choice in Ireland
• UCD leading €2.1m Horizon 2020 project to tackle climate change impact on food safety
• Asthma Research Bursary awarded to UCD researcher aiming to help obese people
• Opinion: Elena Ferrante: a vanishing author and the question of posthuman identity

June 2019

• UCD AFC duo Gary O'Neill and Neil Farrugia sign with Shamrock Rovers
• UCD rowers make a big splash at University Championships
• UCD up 8 places in QS World University Rankings
• Thousands of trees may face the chop to accommodate BusConnects routes
• UCD awarded highest number of Fulbright Awards as fifteen recipients are named
• Radical Brexit deal needed if UK hopes to protect trade services, warns new research
• Tyrannosaurus rex nosed out the competition, new study suggests
• Genetic basis for extended lifespan and cancer resistance discovered in long-lived bats
• Associate Professor Amanda Gibney conferred as fellow by Engineers Ireland
• New PET CT Research Imaging Centre will improve patient treatment and advance research in major diseases
• UCD Smurfit School gets top marks in FT world rankings

May 2019

• Bloom 2019: A real taste of Ireland's food history
• Imported UK cars set to overtake new car sales in Ireland for the first time, CMM reports
• UCD academics join ranks of Royal Irish Academy for world-class research
• Oarsmen named 'UCD 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

• Hello MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland officially opens to public
• UCD and QBI, at University of California, San Francisco, partner to strengthen bioscience research
• Refugee children need greater support to aid Irish integration, report claims
• Opinion: Yemen’s Houthis – and why they’re not simply a proxy of Iran
• UCD number 1 in Ireland in QS World University Employability Rankings
• Blindsided by bureaucracy - How administrative burden is cutting America’s safety net
• UCD spin-out wins Best Business Idea at Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur Awards
• IAIS award for UCD Professor Catherine Godson
• University celebrates honorary degree recipients at summer conferring
• Author Frank Ormsby named Ireland Professor of Poetry
• UCD Press and University of Chicago Press sign historic partnership
• Aspiring novelist to explore ‘Emerald Isle of the Caribbean‘ after Maeve Binchy Travel Award win
• UCD Moore Centre opens for business as Quinn School unveils €20m extension

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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