21 December, 2016

Women on Walls is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy, that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits, creating a lasting cultural legacy for Ireland in 2016.

20 December, 2016

Origin Enterprises plc and UCD recently announced the establishment of a dedicated digital, precision agriculture and crop science collaborative research partnership, supported through the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Strategic Partnership Programme.

20 December, 2016

An early-stage medtech venture developing a new microneedle platform technology has won a UCD commercialisation award. The creator of Micro Needle Slow-Mo is Ellen Cahill, a PhD student in the UCD Medical Device Design Group within the UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

06 December, 2016

Professor Da-Wen Sun, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, has become the Founding President of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE), and has also been named a founding Fellow of iAABE.

05 December, 2016

TEAM, a new €4 million research and training network focused on developing new technologies to support the provision of mental health services for young people, was announced recently at University College Dublin (UCD).

21 November, 2016

This autumn, schoolchildren around Ireland collected a new series of books produced by UCD called Science Apprentice. The five books, which were available free with the Irish Independent in Tesco stores nationwide, delved into topics about Space, Energy and Resources, Food and Health, Computers and Data and how technology will underpin our Connected Futures.

25 October, 2016

Minister of State for Training, Skills and Innovation, John Halligan TD, has announced €22.3 million in research funding for 40 major research projects.

25 October, 2016

Researchers at UCD will lead a consortium of international scientific institutions in a new €6m Horizon 2020-funded research project to improve the air quality of several European cities.

25 October, 2016

A UCD cancer research project that aims to reduce the harmful effects of over-treatment by more accurately diagnosing patients has received €2.5 million in funding from Science Foundation Ireland.

25 October, 2016

Professor Tom Brazil has been elected President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). The MTT-S promotes the advancement of microwave theory and its applications. These include mobile phones, Wi-Fi, radio and radar.

04 October, 2016

UCD has announced the appointment of Professor Fengzhou Fang, a world renowned expert in advanced manufacturing research and innovation, to UCD’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

03 October, 2016

PhD student, Dearbhla Lenehan is announced as the 2016 UCD Conway Festival gold medal recipient for her research on the interactions between platelets and bacteria during the inflammatory response to bloodstream infections known as sepsis. This insight is vital to designing effective treatments to combat infections in future.

27 September, 2016

CATCH, a new €2.1 million connected health innovative training programme (ITN), involving 6partner organisations from 3 European companies, was formally launched on 22nd September, 2016 in UCD.

27 September, 2016

CeADAR, the Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research, and Kinesis Health Technologies, have each won Awards at the inaugural Data Science Awards.

07 September, 2016

UCD has presented Professor Kevin O’Connor, a leading green technologies researcher and innovator, with the NovaUCD 2016 Innovation Award. The Award was presented to Professor O’Connor, UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and UCD Earth Institute, by UCD President, Professor Andrew J. Deeks, during an event held at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs.

29 August, 2016

High level of knowledge about a topic doubles the chances of 'false memories'

19 August, 2016

A 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps was wearing clothes made from at least five different ancient species of animal when he died, according to genetic DNA analyses carried out by a University College Dublin scientist.

04 August, 2016

With seven UCD research projects among 24 to receive funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the Investigators Programme announced today, UCD once again leads the field with the highest number of projects funded.

26 July, 2016

First large-scale, genome-wide analyses of ancient human remains from Near East illuminates population dynamics of world's first farmers

07 July, 2016

UCD alumnus Dr Marc Ó Gríofa will join two astronauts and three other researchers on an undersea research station as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations programme (NEEMO) this month.

01 July, 2016

The centre will treat more than 45 per cent of all breast cancer cases in Ireland and 25 per cent of all pancreas cancer cases. It will also account for 50 per cent of all breast cancer screening in Ireland.

05 July, 2016

Professor Da-Wen Sun has been conferred with the title of CIGR Honorary President at the 4th International Conference on Agricultural Engineering held in Aarhus, Denmark.

29 June, 2016

Fighting infection in the gut relies on a dynamic relationship between the cells that line gut walls and microbiota – the hundreds of different bacteria that co-exist within the human body without causing harm.

29 June, 2016

Atlantic Bridge, one of Europe’s top performing growth technology funds, has announced a new €60 million investment fund for early stage companies with global potential that are built from world class research from all Irish third-level institutions and universities.

27 June, 2016

UCD has won the Mature Spin-out Company Impact Award with Logentries at the 2016 Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards. The Award was presented by Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at an event held last night at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin.

27 June, 2016

The US Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin O’Malley and Ireland’s Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs & Natural Resources, Seán Kyne TD, announced 39 new Fulbright Irish Awardees at the Ambassador’s Residence in Dublin. Five of these students are from University College Dublin.

30 May, 2016

The enrolment of 22 world-renowned scientists & academics took place recently at the Royal Irish Academy – Ireland’s leading body of experts in the sciences and humanities.

25 May, 2016

UCD President, Professor Andrew J. Deeks and Irish Red Cross Head of International Relations and Cooperation, John Roche, travelled to India recently to sign an agreement and to launch a pilot study with the Indian Red Cross. The pilot study will assess the impact a mobile crowd source application will have on the charity’s efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) in India.

24 May, 2016

Twenty-one researchers have today completed the seventh UCD Commercialisation Bootcamp, delivered over the last 5 weeks at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs at University College Dublin.

24 May, 2016

The Awards celebrate excellence in research innovation that has taken place on the island of Ireland as a result of US business investment. This is the second year of the joint initiative between the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy.

23 May, 2016

Researchers at University College Dublin (UCD), Ulster University and Florida State University have been awarded 2.5 million euro to investigate the effectiveness of gastric bypass surgery under the US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership grant programme.

18 May, 2016

The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced that Professor Cormac Taylor, UCD School of Medicine and UCD Conway Institute, is to be presented with the 2017 Takeda Distinguished Research Award by the Society’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology Section.

27 April, 2016

A new 3-year Innovation Partnership programme in food quality and safety was launched today at University College Dublin (UCD).The €1.7 million Enterprise Ireland and industry funded programme, Sequencing Alliance for Food Environments (SAFE), aims to develop a new predictive software toolbox to enhance food quality and safety approaches, nationally and with global reach, using environmental intelligence data.

19 April, 2016

Professor Des Higgins, Conway Institute Fellow and Professor of Bioinformatics, UCD School of Medicine and Systems Biology Ireland will receive the Kimura Motoo award in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of evolutionary biology, and to the field of molecular phylogeny specifically.

19 April, 2016

New UCD research findings, published in Circulation, the highest impact journal in the cardiovascular field, indicate that replacing dietary carbohydrate with monounsaturated fat in otherwise obesogenic diets is better for the cardiovascular health.

12 April, 2016

Using stationary vehicles to improve cooperative positioning algorithms.

17 March, 2016

A high-level delegation, led by Professor Andrew J Deeks, President, University College Dublin (UCD), has paid a 3-day visit to Washington D.C., to coincide with St. Patrick’s Day.

14 March, 2016

Developed in 2015 by the American Chamber of Commerce, Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy, the awards recognise and acknowledge exemplary ideas, originating in Irish organisations, making a social and economic impact through research innovation in meeting market needs.

09 March, 2016

University College Dublin (UCD) and IBM in Ireland has announced the expansion of the research collaboration between both organisations with the establishment of a new software development collaboratory.

29 February, 2016

Mr Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission, recently visited University College Dublin (UCD) and was welcomed to the University by Professor Andrew J. Deeks, President, UCD.

22 February, 2016

On February 19th, a delegation led by Vice Minister Tan Tianxing of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council paid a special visit to Professor Da-Wen Sun, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, and held a meeting with UCD Chinese academic staff and postgraduate students.

02 February, 2016

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD has officially opened a new €2.3 million Dairy Research and Education facility at UCD Lyons Research Farm

05 January, 2016

Professor Da-Wen Sun, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, has been selected for the prestigious Thomson Reuters 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers.