Karena Flynn Thai graduated from DCU in 2009 and now works for Pigsback.com as their Sales Account Director. In this piece, she talks about the company’s support for DCU and how this has helped to develop the company’s inclusive atmosphere. She aims to give support and to champion young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become...Continue Reading
DCU Educational Trust is delighted to continue its partnership with Digicel to provide a completely unique summer internship experience for DCU Access students. For the first time since 2019, two final year students who have just completed their university courses will head to the Caribbean this June to complete a ten week marketing work placement...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
Photo (L-R) Sophie Phipps, Kelsey Scully, David Ogunniyi, Dylan Nolan, Sarah Proudfoot Dublin City University Access and JPMorgan Chase have today (December 6th) announced the new Step Up in STEM programme. Research shows that women and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are consistently underrepresented on Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) courses, and as a...Continue Reading
(L-R) Sculptor Sandra Bell at the Teachers Inspire sculpture with Claire Whelehan, DCU Educational Trust, Mr. Dermot Desmond, Prof. Anne Looney, Executive Dean of the Institute of Education in DCU, Prof. Daire Keogh, President of DCU and Derek Bell A new sculpture, Teachers Inspire by sculptor Sandra Bell, was unveiled at Dublin City University’s St....Continue Reading
Éanna De Buitléir is a DCU alumnus who has been supporting the university since 2016. He is now working in logistics in the humanitarian sector, with a French NGO based in Yemen. Despite the challenges that come with where he works today, Eanna has managed to continue to support DCU philanthropically and has always seen...Continue Reading
This week, Dublin City University welcomed the chief executives of four Digicel Foundations in the Caribbean to the university’s Glasnevin Campus. The CEOs, who lead foundations working to create social change in Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago and Papua New Guinea, were visiting DCU to access insights from leading DCU researchers on creativity and social...Continue Reading
