
15 December, 2015
University College Dublin Honours OxyMem Co-Founders with NovaUCD 2015 Innovation Award
The Award was presented to Professor Eoin Casey and Dr Eoin Syron, both researchers in the UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, by UCD President, Professor Andrew J Deeks during an event held at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs.

14 December, 2015
Gates Foundation award for UCD project targeting child pneumonia
Following a $100,000 grant from the Gates Foundation, a multidisciplinary team of researchers based at UCD Conway Institute will begin field testing their BIOTOPE (biomarkers to diagnose pneumonia) research project in Malawi.

14 December, 2015
University College Dublin Welcomes Publication of Innovation 2020 Strategy
The Minister for Skills, Research, Innovation Damien English TD, together with An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, recently published Innovation 2020, Ireland’s 5-year strategy for research and development, science and technology.

07 December, 2015
Former EU Commissioner, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn awarded UCD honorary degree
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who served as European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science from 2010 to 2014, has been awarded an honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by University College Dublin.

07 December, 2015
New €26 million geosciences research centre at University College Dublin
Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English TD has officially launched the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), a newly established Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre in Geosciences at University College Dublin.

25 November, 2015
Minister English announces new partnership to lead cutting-edge energy system integration research in Ireland
ESIPP will receive €5.5 million from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through Science Foundation Ireland, coupled with €5.5 million from five industry partners.

24 November, 2015
International Study Led by UCD Uncovers Mechanism Behind Joubert Syndrome
The results of an international study just published in Nature Cell Biology have identified a gene (TMEM107) associated with Joubert syndrome, and crucially uncovered the mechanism by which it functions in cells, leading to a better understanding of the cause of this brain disorder.

11 November, 2015
IBM & UCD Launch Collaboratory to Advance Cognitive and Sustainable Cities Research Capabilities
IBM and UCD have announced the establishment of a new research collaboratory in Ireland, allowing scientists from UCD and IBM Research–Ireland to work closely together on technologies for the next generation of smart and sustainable cities.

09 November, 2015
Taoiseach hosts first science celebration in Government buildings
To mark the 20th annual Science Week, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD attended a showcase of Irish science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) at Government Buildings.

21 October, 2015
University College Dublin Launches its Strategy for Research, Innovation and Impact
UCD has announced the launch of its strategy for research, innovation and impact until 2020.

21 October, 2015
Launch of the UCD Centre for Translational Pain Research
Professor Orla Feeley, Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact has officially launched the UCD Centre for Translational Pain Research.

05 October, 2015
UCD Researcher’s Findings May Lead to Therapeutic Targets for Heart Diseases Associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
Dr Silke Ryan, a University College Dublin (UCD) medical researcher, has delivered the flagship Cournand lecture at European Respiratory Society’s (ERS) 2015 international congress.

28 September, 2015
TOPMed10 - Training future leaders in personalised medicine
Institute Director, Professor Walter Kolch will lead an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND international training and career development fellowship programme in personalised medicine, TOPMed10.

23 September, 2015
Scientists identify new way of information storage and processing based on skyrmions
Hard to unwind like knots in a rope, magnetic skyrmions are stable magnetic whirls that behave like tiny particles in magnetic thin films. These whirls, only a few nanometers in size offer great potential for next-generation information storage and processing.

21 September, 2015
Joint winners of the 2015 UCD Conway Festival gold medal
Dr Melinda Halasz and Dr Alison Reynolds are joint winners of the 2015 UCD Conway gold medal for their respective research projects to find new treatment approaches in a highly aggressive childhood cancer and in a condition that can lead to blindness.

09 September, 2015
OncoMark Awarded €2.7 million in Horizon 2020 Funding and Plans to Create 10 New Jobs
OncoMark, headquartered at NovaUCD, focuses on the development of novel panels of cancer biomarkers to aid treatment decisions and allow more tailored patient management, ultimately improving the quality of life for cancer patients.

07 September, 2015
UCD Professor's Research Publications in Agricultural Sciences Ranked No.1 in the World
Professor Da-Wen Sun, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, is a global authority in food engineering research and education.

05 August, 2015
UCD Professor elected President of European Symposium of Organic Chemistry committee
Professor Pat Guiry has become the first Irish academic to be elected President of the International Scientific Committee of the European Symposium of Organic Chemistry (ESOC).

20 July, 2015
Top ‘Big Data’ award for UCD Professor Toyotaro Suzumura
A collaboration between RIKEN, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, University College Dublin, Kyushu University, and Fujitsu has won top place for the K computer in the June 2015 Graph 500 supercomputer ranking.

07 July, 2015
Significant benefits of weight management drug revealed
Findings of an international study published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that the drug, liraglutide 3.0 mg is beneficial to weight management in obesity when used in combination with diet and increased physical activity.

30 June, 2015
Conway researcher wins 2015 L’Oréal-UNESCO fellowship
Dr Tríona Ní Chonghaile, a postdoctoral cancer researcher in the laboratory of Professor William Gallagher has won a highly contested 2015 L’Oréal-UNESCO UK & Ireland For Women In Science fellowship at a ceremony this week at London’s Royal Society.

16 June, 2015
'VOICES ON JOYCE' edited by Anne Fogarty and Fran O’Rourke was recently launched by UCD Press in Newman House
The book was launched by Professor Luke Gibbons and was attended by Professor Orla Feely and the British Ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott, amongst many others.

09 June, 2015
Targeting inflammation to fight obesity-related diseases
Obesity is considered a risk factor for diseases including diabetes, liver cirrhosis and chronic kidney disease. Adipose (fat tissue) inflammation seems to be a common denominator among these obesity-related diseases.

09 June, 2015
Engineers Win University College Dublin Commercialisation Award for Brainstem Activity Monitor
Non-contact device detects brainstem activity by measuring tiny, involuntary eye movement

08 June, 2015
Royal Irish Academy honours UCD academics
Four UCD professors, in the disciplines of science, engineering, arts and law, have been elected to the ranks of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements.

05 June, 2015
UCD host international conference on the Role of Higher Education in Revolutions
Student and academic revolts, from the 1790s up to the present day, featuring the French student uprisings of 1968, the Arab Spring, Easter 1916, and other major protest movements which led to the emergence of new states, will be explored in an international history conference in Dublin this June.

27 May, 2015
UCD Contributes €1.3 Billion Annually to Irish Economy According to New Impact Report Launched by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD launched a new report on 26th May, 2015 which highlightsthe economic, cultural and social impact of University College Dublin (UCD). The report, launched at Government Buildings, underlines UCD’s key role as a major economic actor and employer in Dublin and in Ireland.

25 May, 2015
Minister Bruton launches UCD-based €5 million Connected Health Technology Centre
Digital medicine will improve patient experience and reduce costs to healthcare system

27 April, 2015
UCD Connected Health Researcher Wins 2015 Google Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge
Professor Caulfield won the challenge with his pitch on leveraging the sensing and computing capability of mobile phones to underpin a comprehensive rehabilitation support platform for patients undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery

27 April, 2015
Six UCD Research Projects Receive Funding through SFI Investigators Programme
The Programme will provide funding, ranging from €500,000 to €2.3 million, over a four to five year period, for the projects involving over 100 researchers.

20 April, 2015
University College Dublin presents future Research Plans to European Commissioners Moedas and Hogan
Senior researchers from UCD presented the university’s strategic plans for research and innovation over the next few years to the Commissioners, focussing on agrifood and ICT

20 April, 2015
University College Dublin Shortlisted for US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards 2015
The Awards were established to recognise excellence in research innovation in Ireland as a result of US foreign direct investment.

15 April, 2015
New Patented Process of Producing an Antioxidant for Food and Cosmetic Industries Wins 2015 UCD Life Science Innovation Sprint Award
New patented process is more efficient and economical than current process and produces a purer form of the antioxidant than occurs in nature

14 April, 2015
Minister Heather Humphreys launches UCD Decade of Centenaries programme
Over 25 events are planned by UCD to commemorate the decade of centenaries.

30 March, 2015
University College Dublin Wins Two Knowledge Transfer Ireland 2015 Impact Awards
UCD took both the Licence2Market Impact Award 2015 and the Spin-out Company Impact Award 2015.

24 March, 2015
ERC consolidator grants for two UCD researchers
University College Dublin researchers have been awarded two of the six European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants presented to Irish based researchers under the latest funding round.

23 March, 2015
UCD researcher to become first Irish researcher to deliver Cournand lecture in Society’s 25-year history
Dr Silke Ryan, a University College Dublin medical researcher, will deliver the prestigious Cournand lecture, to an expected audience of 20,000, at the forthcoming international congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS).

02 March, 2015
Launch of The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland in New York City
Gala celebration in New York of landmark UCD book on the history of Irish Music

26 February, 2015
Cystic Fibrosis Discovery May Lead to New Treatment Strategy to Help Patients Breathe Easier
Team including University College Dublin (UCD) researchers identifies why disease thickens mucus in lung disease, explores possible new treatments

18 February, 2015
UCD Professor Lizbeth Goodman is named one of the world’s Top 50 Social Innovators
UCD Professor Lizbeth Goodman has been named amongst the world’s 50 Most Talented Social Innovators for her work with SMARTlab and SafetyNET, at World CSR Day, which was held on 17th February in Mumbai, India.

16 February, 2015
New UCD spin-out company wins ESA contract to assist with big data challenges of mapping the Milky Way galaxy
Parameter Space Ltd, a new UCD spin-out company, has secured funding of €800,000 by the European Space Agency(ESA) to develop new software to exploit the unprecedented volume of data captured by ESA's Gaia satellite.

06 February, 2015
Extension of the Athena SWAN Charter for women in science to the higher education sector in Ireland
The Irish universities are working to address gender imbalances in the higher education sector through the extension of the Athena SWAN Charter to Ireland, officially launched by Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O'Sullivan.

06 February, 2015
Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, Launches the UCD Beacon Hospital Academy
This new centre for educating and training healthcare students of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and radiography is the most comprehensive of its kind between a university and a private hospital group in Ireland with UCD students now able to take part of their clinical training at Beacon Hospital.

05 February, 2015
Malocclusion and dental crowding arose 12,000 years ago with earliest farmers, study shows
Hunter-gatherers had almost no malocclusion and dental crowding, and the condition first became common among the world’s earliest farmers some 12,000 years ago in Southwest Asia, according to findings published in the journal PLOS ONE.

04 February, 2015
New University College Dublin Spin-Out Company to Preserve, Protect and Promote Ireland’s Folklore Heritage
The incorporation of the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), a new University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company with charitable status, was announced today. The company has been established, with the support of UCD’s technology transfer and enterprise development team at NovaUCD to preserve, protect and promote Ireland’s National Folklore Collection.

21 January, 2015
UCD Ulysses Medal for world-leading MIT chemist
One of the creative scientists who shaped the way that modern chemistry is undertaken, Professor Stephen L. Buchwald, MIT, has been awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour that University College Dublin can bestow.