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- AIMSIR - UCD and Met Éireann launch new AI centre to transform weather forecasting
- 13 UCD labs awarded Sustainable Laboratory Certifications for best-in-class practices
- Nicola Tuthill claims historic hammer silver at European U23 Athletics Championships
- University College Dublin rises to 118 in latest QS World University Rankings
UCD Science News
2025
- 183 high-achieving students honoured at UCD Global Excellence Scholarships Event
- RIA awards Hamilton Prize to UCD maths ace Mhyls Salapuddin
- HEA awards €1m to UCD for taking ‘Ireland into the space age’
- AIMSIR - UCD and Met Éireann launch new AI centre to transform weather forecasting
- Mission Accomplished: EIRSAT-1 to deorbit after two year historic journey
- Four UCD early-career researchers receive coveted ERC Starting Grants
- UCD co-leads breakthrough discovering genetic mechanism driving Weaver syndrome
- 13 UCD labs awarded Sustainable Laboratory Certifications for best-in-class practices
- Nicola Tuthill claims historic hammer silver at European U23 Athletics Championships
- Summer celebrations as over 1000 UCD graduates conferred
- UCD C-Space leads European novel satellite swarm mission to observe gamma-ray bursts
- UCD College of Science: Women in Science Mentoring Awards Ceremony
- University College Dublin rises to 118 in latest QS World University Rankings
- €5 million awarded to UCD researchers working on potential scientific breakthroughs
- Irish researcher joins €1.7bn hunt for Einstein’s ‘ripples in space-time’
- American Statistical Association Fellowship for Professor Brendan Murphy
- UCD teams progress to next phase of the Research Ireland- Defence Innovation Challenge programme
- Four UCD projects funded under programme to strengthen Ireland-Wales research ties
- Four Research Alliance Awards for UCD to boost Ireland-Wales research collaboration
- Ireland's highest academic honour bestowed as UCD professors admitted to Royal Irish Academy
- Nine start-ups selected for UCD’s AI Ecosystem Accelerator programme
- UCD MSc Applied Environmental Science CIEEM Accredited
- SBBS Pharmacology Student Wins 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award
- Olympian Nicola Tuthill named UCD Sportsperson of the Year
- UCD and UC Davis deepen partnership to tackle global challenges
- New Foundations awards to tackle national and global issues
- Remarkable women: Dervilla Maura Xavier Donnelly (1930–2024)
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report 2023/24
- ENGAGE 2025 Grand Final
- University College Dublin’s 2025 Innovation Awardees Announced by NovaUCD
- Professor Wenxin Wang wins 2025 NovaUCD Innovation Award
- ‘Sustainability is not just about coffee cups and electric vehicles’ – UCD Sustainability Plan to 2030
- Research Ireland Discover Programme funding for 7 UCD projects inspiring STEM public engagement
- Seven UCD projects inspiring STEM public engagement funded
- UCD research infrastructure projects receive more than €5.3m in funding
- Minister Lawless announces €17.7M research infrastructure investment
- UCD researchers on 5 of the finalist teams awarded under the National Challenge Fund
- Four UCD teams involved in €6m funding for environmental and social research
- UCD Science Awards Ceremony 2025
- €7M joint investment announced for US-Ireland Research Programme
- Nicola Tuthill wins Ireland’s first gold at European Throwing Cup
- Four UCD projects part of €2.2m programme to address global hunger
- CeADAR and Google Announce Strategic Partnership Agreement to Help Irish Businesses Unlock AI’s Potential
- CeADAR and Google announce partnership to help Irish businesses unlock AI’s potential
- €2.2M in research funding for six teams to advance UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger
- Pioneering female UCD academics celebrated in new book
- Three UCD projects involved in €3.2m programme for defence tech research
- Ten research projects funded to develop new technologies in the Defence Forces
- Sarah A. Gleeson announced as Research Ireland Professor and Director of iCRAG
- Professor Sarah Gleeson named new iCRAG Director
- Scotland and Ireland unlocking Space for shared goals
- UCD and University of Strathclyde sign MoU on space-related research and innovation
- UCD and University of Strathclyde sign memorandum of understanding on space-related research and innovation
- NovaUCD Named One of Europe’s Leading Start-Up Hubs by Financial Times
- Financial Times again names NovaUCD as one of Europe’s leading start-up hubs
- Frontiers for the Future funding for high-risk, high-reward research
- UCD research funded as €24m awarded to ‘high-risk, high-reward’ projects
- Nearly €2 million in funding awarded to UCD environmental research projects
- EPA funds new research to address climate and environmental challenges
- UCD AC’s Bori Akinola wins first senior title at national championships
- New prostate cancer screening study in Ireland aims to deliver improved outcomes for men across Europe
- UCD spin-out LirOptic unveils new optical lens technology
- UCD welcomes Ireland’s progress on joining CERN
- Ad Astra Academy welcomes 60 new student scholars
- LirOptic Unveils Pioneering Optical Lens Technology
- Ulysses scheme funds 14 Ireland- and France-based research collaborations
- iCRAG@10 conference showcases a decade of research and impact
- Professor Anne Fuchs awarded 2025 RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities
- Cuttlefish ink has potential as natural repellent to keep sharks away from beaches
- UCD co-leads on new €31.6m ARC Hub for Therapeutics
- UCD Breaking Boundaries begins with talent investment
- UCD researcher leads school outreach project highlighting Irish “maths superwomen”
- UCD co-leads on new €31.6m ARC Hub for Therapeutics
- Research Ireland industry-focused fellowship awarded to UCD researchers
- Minister Lawless announces €2.5M for Research Ireland industry-focused fellowship
- 'High impact invasive alien species' found in Waterford
- Opinion: We studied more than 500 giraffe skulls from all over Africa and confirmed there are 4 distinct species
- Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance
- Licovolt and Pure Battery Technologies announce strategic partnership to advance sustainable battery material production for EV industry
- UCD and NU showcase five collaborations in health tech and DIY music resilience
- Applications are now open for the UCD Ad Astra Fellows in the College of Science
- Excellence of UCD staff recognised at 2025 Teaching and Learning Awards
- 'History Made' - EIRSAT-1 wins 2024 UCD Research Impact Competition
- EIRSAT-1 wins UCD Research Impact Competition for transforming national space landscape
- UCD PhD candidate recognised as top-ranked STEM scholar at Researcher of the Year Awards
- Researcher of the Year 2024 (IRC legacy) Awards
- Newly discovered gene mutation in the eye named after blind Irish poet
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2024 News
- UCD 49th in the world and No 1 in Ireland for sustainability, reports QS ranking
- HRB names UCD researchers among 'Ireland's future research leaders' awarded €12.5
- HRB invests €12.5 million to develop Ireland’s future research leaders
- UCD awards celebrating Irish AI innovation
- National Athletics Awards: Olympian and Ad Astra star Nicola Tuthill named 'Field Athlete of the Year'
- UCD PhD project chosen for global impact and innovation exhibition in Dubai
- Community Volunteering Award celebrate the exceptional service of UCD students
- UCD sets out its path to 2023 with launch of new strategy
- AI expert Andrew Parnell named Met Éireann Professor of Weather and Climate Research
- Andrew Parnell appointed as Met Éireann Professor of Weather and Climate Research at UCD
- Professor Emerita Dervilla Donnelly: 1930-2024
- Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin named chair of committee advising on Ireland's Nature Restoration Plan
- Competition! Celebrating John Stewart Bell’s Legacy
- UCD-led EU project EVEREST aims to transform cancer and cardiovascular diagnosis and care
- EU project aims to revolutionise biomedical research with extracellular vesicles
- Fifty UCD 'exceptional' early-career researchers awarded Government of Ireland funding
- Fifty UCD postgrad and postdoc researchers awarded under Government of Ireland call
- UCD Conway Festival gold medal award to Dr Carlos Matellan
- Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future funding for ‘high-risk, high-reward research’ at UCD
- Twelve UCD students awarded prestigious Naughton Foundation Scholarships
- Three-time Olympian Ciara Mageean honoured at 2024 UCD Alumni Awards
- RIA awards Hamilton Prize to UCD maths ace Jack Sherry
- Biodiversity project could restore native oyster reefs to Dublin Bay
- New eLetter in Science questions Meta-funded study suggesting its news-feed algorithms are not major drivers of misinformation
- UCD projects awarded funding as HRB invests €12.4m in healthcare research
- UCD honorary degrees for Oscar nominated Irish language filmmakers
- UCD awarded Athena Swan institutional Silver Award
- CAO 2024: UCD continues as Ireland's university of first choice for Irish applicants
- Paralympics 2024: Alum Colin Judge will carry the flag for Ireland at Paris Games
- UCD leading on research collaborative agreements with industry, according to latest Knowledge Transfer Ireland Survey
- Summer conferrings continue as UCD observes international ceremonies
- UCD Dean of Science, Professor Jeremy Simpson, talks to CapeTalk radio in Cape Town as part of a lecture tour in South Africa
- Four UCD teams among first cohort of National Challenge Fund finalists
- Olympics 2024: Record number of UCD sports stars to fly the flag for Team Ireland in Paris
- €14.6m invested to support early career researchers under the SFI-IRC Pathway programme
- UCD early career researchers part of €14.6m SFI-IRC Pathway investment
- Several UCD projects among €22m funding call by Department of Agriculture
- €46m Thematic Research call largest ever for Dept of Agriculture
- LISA project confirms ICD alum as mission waveform expert
- New CEO takes the helm at AI centre CeADAR
- Campus celebrations as over 1300 UCD graduates conferred in summer ceremonies
- AESIS 'Societal Impact of Scientific Research' conference held at UCD
- UCD Research wins PRCA Award for EIRSAT-1 Campaign
- NovaUCD: Winners revealed for 2024 Student Accelerator Programme
- Health issues in Phoenix Park deer caused by public feeding
- UCD quantum computing spin-out wins prestigious Institute of Physics prize
- UCD researchers receive €1.4m from SFI Strategic Partnership Award
- UCD Scholarship recognised as top academics elected to Royal Irish Academy
- Seven UCD researchers recognised in €34m SFI Frontiers for the Future awards
- Eleven start-ups announced for UCD's new AI Accelerator Programme
- AI expert Dr Brian Mac Namee named as new Director for Insight SFI Research Centre
- Tánaiste backs call for All-Island Cancer Institute
- Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi received honorary degree for lasting legacy to public service
- Professor Therese Kinsella wins 2024 NovaUCD Innovation Award
- NovaUCD Announces Recipients of Annual Innovation Awards
- Intel names UCD students among its 2024 Women in Technology Scholars
- UCD and Dublin Port Company boost marine biodiversity with 'world-first' eco-engineering
- UCD seeking to appoint a Full Professor of Data Science for Weather and Climate
- UCD is Ireland's university-of-first-choice for 2024 CAO applicants
- President's Award: Twenty students honoured for "exemplary service" to UCD community
- Capitol Hill hears how transatlantic collaborations has transformed cancer care on island of Ireland
- EPA awards five UCD researchers funding to tackle climate and environmental challenges
- February 2024: Phase III Update
- EPA announces €14.3m in new research funding
- UCD Relativity Group plays key role in first ever gravitational-wave observatory in space
- Safe staffing project that became national policy for Ireland wins 2023 UCD Research Impact Competition
- New AI accelerator programme at UCD for start-ups and entrepreneurs
2023 News
- IRC names pioneering UCD projects among frontier research benefitting from €16m investment
- Met Éireann partners with UCD on new AI research programme for weather and climate services
- UCD and Met Éireann launch new AI-focused research programme supporting weather and climate services development
- EIRSAT-1, a student-built satellite from University College Dublin, has been successfully launched into space, officially becoming Ireland's first-ever satellite
- EIRSAT-1: Ireland successfully launches its first satellite into space
- University honours notable graduates at 2023 UCD Alumni Awards
- UCD-led space project receives over €7.9m from Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund
- 2023 VIA Awards: Recognising colleagues who bring the University's values to life
- Professor Carel le Roux named IRC Researcher of the Year 2023
- "Ireland's membership of CERN will ensure that the future will be bright for Irish students and researchers", says Professor Ronan McNulty, UCD School of Physics.
- Ireland's first-ever satellite EIRSAT-1 begins final preparations ahead of November launch
- Seven UCD projects among awardees to receive €24m to support rising research leaders
- Brenner lectureship: Professor Catherine Godson recognised as distinguished scholar by American Society of Nephrology
- Bats and volcanoes research awarded coveted ERC Synergy Grants
- UCD sees world's first commercial deployment of lab-scale soft X-ray microscope
- Professor Susan Quinn receives prestigious ICI Annual Award for Chemistry
- UCD Conway Institute marks 20 years at the leading edge
- Presidency of CESAER for UCD President Professor Orla Feely
- UCD maths ace Elaine Pidgeon wins RIA Hamilton Prize
- How climate change could cause havoc to the extraordinary lifespans of bats
- Preeclampsia diagnostic tool scoops AI Innovation prize at Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards
- Hundreds of new jobs planned as tech firm EXL partners with UCD for Irish expansion
- UCD academics among 15 Franco-Irish research projects chosen for Ulysses Scheme
- Biodiversity loss not a priority for 'successive governments', Oireachtas committee hears
- Nine UCD teams awarded funding under final rounds of €64m National Challenge Fund
- MARSCROP - Growing green on the Red Planet
- Role Models in pSTEM
- Congratulations to the UCD STEM Challenge Funding Awardees
- Transforming the Lives of Those Living with Alzheimer's Disease
- UCD-led Pan European Biomedical Imaging Research Project Secures €2.5 Million in Funding
- UCD tops funding list in latest round of SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme
- Ireland's fastest man Isreal Olatunde named 'UCD Sportsperson of the Year'
- UCD genome research recognised in special issue of Science
- College of Science Pride Celebration Event 2023
- UCD STEM Symposium: Registration Closing Date 1 June 2023
- New European consortium will create support network for EU Mission on Cancer
- UCD appoints Professor Tasman Crowe Vice-President for Sustainability
- UCD O'Brien Centre for Science - Phase III
- €25 million Irish Government funding towards UCD O’Brien Centre for Science, Phase III
- Portrait unveiled for renowned UCD chemist and mentor Professor Dervilla Donnelly
- Professor Kenneth Dawson receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for nanoscale medicines
- UCD-UCSF partnership wins NovaUCD Innovation Award for novel lung disease relief
- Professor Pat Guiry elected as the President of the RIA
- Minister Harris and Commissioner McGuinness announce first recipients under the €65M National Challenge Fund
- From medicine to maritime, we speak to women who are breaking boundaries
- RIA awards UCD student Hamilton Prize for Mathematics
- First ever bat stem cell could reveal how coronaviruses spread and evade the immune system in new hosts
- UCD's Israel Olatunde undisputedly fastest Irishman with National Indoor Championship victory
2022 News
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
- International Men's Day
- Transgender Day of Remembrance
- UCD Alumni Awards 2022
- UCD scholarship recognised as five top academics elected to Royal Irish Academy
- Six UCD projects improving public understanding of STEM funded under SFI Discover Programme
- Young scientists at #LINO22 – Dark Matter of the Biological Universe
- BSc Sustainability Awards Event - Fingal Farmers Group
- Role Models in pSTEM
- Minister Harris announces 27 grants for academic and industry collaborations
- When your science degree leads to something completely new (Farmers Journal)
- University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast strengthen collaboration
- Physicist and PEARlabs Founder Receives 2022 NovaUCD Innovation Award
- President’s Award: Eighteen students honoured for their service to UCD community
- Professor Kenneth Dawson elected to 2022 class of AIMBE College of Fellows
- Impact Case Study: AI_PREMie: saving lives of mothers and babies using AI
- Blue Carbon research receives €2.6m to investigating how marine habitats reduce greenhouse emissions
- Research News: €37m funding awarded in first North-South research call
- Research teams chosen to find disruptive ideas for Irish Defence Forces
- “You Can Be What You Can See” - UCD launches new role-model video series to encourage girls to consider pSTEM careers
- Mastering Wordle is all about sticking with it and starting strong, suggests UCD analysis
- UCD researchers feature in 'Change Makers' TV series
- Leading the Fight against Cybercrime
- First IRC funding awards announced in 2022 to largely benefit community and voluntary organisations
- UCD leading or partner in 16 out of 24 projects in €20 million DAFM call
- Aoife Beary: 15 June 1994 - 1 January 2022
2021 News
- Top-ranked IRC postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers awarded the 2021 ‘Medals of Excellence
- Four College of Science Researchers Among the Winners of NovaUCD's 2021 Innovation Awards
- Ireland’s first satellite is being tested for a planned 2022 launch
2020 News
- Irish marine life at risk UCD expert tells Oireachtas committee
- UCD Physicist Receives the 2019 NovaUCD Innovation Award
2019 News
- SFI Researcher of the Year and Entrepreneurship Award for UCD professors
- Actuaries of the Future - Presentations at Society of Actuaries Annual Convention
- Eight UCD Schools win Athena SWAN awards for gender quality commitment
- UCD scientist to chair expert group advising Government on marine protected areas
- Turning carbon into cash: Irish projects to watch
- Cancer Researchers at University College Dublin Lead Development of New Test to Detect Prostate Cancer
- Sanofi Future Female Leader Scholarship awarded to two UCD students
2018 News
- State bets €18.7m on five 'disruptive tech' projects at UCD
- New Venture Developing a Liquid-based 3D Bioprinting Technology Wins University College Dublin's Start-Up of the Year Award
2017 News
- Taoiseach opens first phase of €300 million UCD Science Centre
- University College Dublin and Elan announce initiative to create leadership in biotechnology
2016 News
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