Today, DCU hosted a special event in The Helix to mark the start of its award-winning Access to the Workplace Programme for 2022. The programme aims to provide up to 100 professional internships for DCU Access students this summer, with 86 placements confirmed to date. Mirroring trends in the wider economy, the programme is experiencing...Continue Reading
Declan Troy, Commercial Account Director at Arachas explains why they were inspired to support DCU’s Access to the Workplace Programme while Access Student, Faruq Raji, describes how the Access to the Workplace Programme was an invaluable opportunity for him.Continue Reading
Yongda Li is searching for life signatures on Mars through his doctoral research in DCU’s School of Biotechnology. He hopes that one day, his simple, low cost and effective tests will be deployed on a mission to Mars. In this piece, he describes how support from the Orla Benson Memorial Scholarship is helping to advance...Continue Reading
Dublin Ladies footballer Jennifer Dunne, is in her 4th and final year of studying a Bachelor of Education at DCU. Jennifer is now the recipient of the Paddy J Wright Sport Memorial Scholarship for two years running. In this piece, she describes how the scholarship has helped her to juggle her final year studies and...Continue Reading
Dr. Richard Murphy is the Research Director at the Alltech European Bioscience Centre in Dunboyne. In this role, he maintains strong links with numerous universities and research institutions and has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Science and Health Studies at Dublin City University. In this piece, Richard tells us why...Continue Reading
Rhona serves as the Global Head of Portfolio and Product Development Strategy at Genentech/Roche. Having completed her undergraduate degree and PhD with DCU, Rhona joined Genentech in 1995 as a Post-Doctoral researcher. In 2018, the San Francisco Business Times recognised Rhona as one of 2018’s Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. In this piece,...Continue Reading
Memorial scholarships are an important part of how the DCU community remembers our past students, staff and friends who played an important role in the life of the university. Each year, DCU Educational Trust honours those remembered through memorial scholarships by celebrating their life and legacy at DCU Educational Trust’s annual Service of Remembrance and...Continue Reading
Dublin City University and Decathlon Ireland have today announced a new three-year partnership that will see the leading sports retailer support sport and wellbeing activities at DCU from 2022 to 2024. Through the partnership, Decathlon will make an annual philanthropic contribution to enable the work of DCU Sports and Wellbeing in providing over 150 of...Continue Reading
Dublin City University’s Centre for Climate and Society has announced Deloitte as a founding partner. The Centre is Ireland’s first academic research centre devoted to leading societal responses to the climate crisis and has been established with the support of Deloitte. As part of a three-year commitment, the leading professional services firm will commit €176,000 annually to enable the...Continue Reading
Tús maith, leath na hoibre. The Irish saying that ‘a good start is half the work’ is an apt motto for building students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and maths. That’s because what and how children learn about maths and science in primary school shapes not only their competence but also their interest (or lack...Continue Reading
