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PulsePath Entrepreneurs Stand Out From the Crowd

For their final year project, Computing for Business students Zeynep Altintas and Lizel Sulaj created an app for monitoring crowd control at outdoor events. This promising business idea won them the Mallin Entrepreneurship Award. Here, they share their excitement about the win and their ambitions for their product. DCU’s four-year Computing for Business degree combines...
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Órla Cremen: Advancing Discoveries in Cancer Research

The Hannah and Paula Delves PhD Scholarship has enabled Órla Cremen to further her ambitions for a career in research. Her PhD work focusing on understanding the immune-related side effects of Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) is already showing promise. “I’m originally from Cork, where I did an undergrad in medical science. I majored in cancer...
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Kaelan Zipoli – the Music Graduate Hits the High Notes

Since graduating from DCU with a BA in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance, Kaelan Zipoli is living his dream of performing and recording music. Here, the Ray Comiskey Memorial Scholarship recipient shares a little of his what he loves about jazz and how his time in DCU led to exciting collaborations. “My mam loves old-school...
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Ketsia’s Story

An inspirational mother, and a keen in interest in helping others, inspired Ketsia Matondo to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Society at DCU. As she explains, the DCU Access Programme has provided invaluable support as she works towards her goal. “I was born in Galway, but I grew up in in...
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Heather’s Story

The DCU Access Programme is helping Heather Campbell pursue her dream of becoming a teacher. The first in her family to go to university, Heather has overcome personal challenges and made brave decisions that led her to embark on a Bachelor of Education degree at DCU. Now in her second year of study, the Access...
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KPMG, Community Foundation Ireland and Professor Noel O’Connor Win DCU Leadership Awards for 2023-24

KPMG and DCU’s many anonymous donors, as represented by Community Foundation Ireland, were announced as the winners of the DCU Corporate Leadership and Individual Leadership Awards for 2023-24 at DCU Educational Trust’s annual Leadership Circle Dinner on 1 February. Professor Noel O’Connor, CEO of Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics and Full Professor in Electronic...
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DCU Launches New Quiet Space Informed by Autism-Friendly University Design Guide

Students from DCU’s autistic community have identified the need for quiet, sensory-friendly spaces on campus. Thanks to our supporters, DCU’s new Quiet Space will support students to recover from sensory overload and recharge on campus. Plans have been unveiled to make Dublin City University an even friendlier campus for autistic staff and students with the...
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DCU Access to the Workplace: Queen and Pinsent Masons

DCU’s Access to the Workplace Programme aims to improve the employability and earning potential of disadvantaged students as well as support them to grow their connections and network and ultimately their social capital by increasing early access to employment opportunities and professional networks. Queen Lawal, a second year DCU student in Politics and Law, spent...
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DCU Sport

Time never stops at DCU…and neither do our student athletes! Get a flavour of a day in the busy lives of DCU’s performance athletes and student community, and of how DCU Sport is helping them to excel in their studies, sport and life.
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Powering a Greener Future

DCU’s Excellence and Opportunity Fund enables talented students to pursue doctoral research that makes an impact. In this video, final-year PhD students Lauren Kearney and Katie O’Rourke share how that support is helping them to take on some of our world’s most pressing challenges: tackling global warming and protecting biodiversity. Through the Excellence and Opportunity...
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