2020 News Archive

Major development for Irish space sector as UCD launches Space Centre

New research and innovation centre to boost Irish space industry and train next generation for jobs of the future

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New research combines computational modelling and neurophysiology to study decision-making

Associate Professor Simon Kelly’s grant is first Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Science for UCD

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Largest set of mammalian genomes reveals species at risk of extinction

The Zoonomia Project has released a vast dataset to advance both biomedical research and biodiversity conservation

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Two Leading UCD Researchers Win 2020 Science Foundation Ireland Mentorship Awards

Winners of the prestigious 2020 SFI Science Awards were revealed today by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD.

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Fourteen UCD Projects win €10M through SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme

Minister Harris announces 71 research grants through the SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme valued at €53 million

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€2.4M EU funding to support critical new surgical technologies for COVID-19

Irish medical tech firm Palliare leads EU H2020 research project with UCD using innovative optical technology for new safer surgery solution

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Eight UCD Projects Awarded €1.5m Through the COVID-19 Rapid Response Research and Innovation Programme

Funding focused on supporting projects which respond to the immediate and pressing needs of society arising from the pandemic.

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Quantum Coding using Qiskit Software showcased at UCD Quantum Computing Hackathon 2020

Delegates get an opportunity to learn about quantum computing through a virtual Qiskit coding competition hosted at UCD.

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One Health approach will help chart a path out of the Pandemic Era

UCD hosts U21 Health Sciences Group meeting as pandemic from zoonotic viruses dominates discussion

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UCD secures €1.1 million in Funding for 13 Enterprise-Focused Research Awards from the Irish Research Council

Minister Simon Harris announced a total investment of €4.3 million in 50 enterprise-focused research awards

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Dr Bradley Garrett talks bunkers, doomsday preppers and crossing ideological divides

A conversation with UCD’s controversial geographer on the occasion of his latest book launch, Bunker: Building for the End Times

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CUPID Covid-19 National Survey finds Parents' Covid Fears prevent Doctor Visits

UCD Researchers find Parents’ Covid-19 Fears Stopped them Bringing Kids to the Doctor or A and E.

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UCD Partnering in Ireland’s First National Preclinical Imaging Centre to Enhance Medical Research

UCD, RCSI and NUI Galway awarded €3.4 million SFI Research Infrastructure grant to create new centre

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Sewage Monitoring and 3D Printing Projects win SFI Covid-19 Rapid Response Funding

Prof Wim Meijer and Prof Denis Dowling lead new research projects to tackle the challenges of pandemic

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New UCD-led €16 million IMI 'SOPHIA' Obesity Project

UCD leads new €16 million international consortium to improve obesity treatment and change the narrative around the disease

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BCG and Covid-19

Prof Stephen Gordon looks at the history behind the BCG vaccine

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Bayes’ Theorem: How Mathematicians Ruined Population Testing for Everyone

Computer Scientists Prof Barry Smyth and Prof Padraig Cunningham examine the hazards of false positives in mass population testing

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Covid-19 CyberSecurity Impact: Increased Risk of Insider Threats?

Dr Anca Jurcut from UCD School of Computer Science and Guerrino Mazzarolo reflect on the increase in cyber crime during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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UCD Researcher to Co-Lead a €4.5 Million Collaborative Project to Develop New Therapies to Treat Orthopaedic Infection

Funding awarded through the US-Ireland R&D Partnership programme. Four projects secure a total of €12 million in joint investment.

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UCD Professor of English Awarded €2.5 million in European Research Funding for Study of Migration and Culture in Victorian Britain

Big Data study will involve text analysis of nearly 36,000 books in the British Library Nineteenth Century Corpus

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Dr Sharleen O'Reilly kicks off €4 million H2020 project with mother-baby health app

Dr Sharleen O’Reilly from University College Dublin (Ireland) School of Agriculture and Food Science has commenced a €4 million project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 Societal Challenges 1 (Health) call, a Research and Innovation Action on ‘Better health and care, economic growth and sustainable health systems.’

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Three UCD recipients of SFI President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Awards

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins has today honoured three UCD researchers with the SFI President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award

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€2.5M ERC Advanced Grant for fluid dynamics research of Irish west coast

Led by Professor Frédéric Dias, research will improve wave forecasting models and design criteria for ships and offshore structures.

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