Tagged: UCD & News
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Irish500 begins task of listing Ireland’s supercomputers News
09.05.2013 Today, the 12th Information Technology and Telecommunications Conference in Athlone will see the launch of the Irish500 project to raise the profile of high-performance... -
RoboRugby Competition tests UCD students’ engineering skills News
24.04.2013 The 2013 Siemens RoboRugby Competition champion was decided at last night’s final held at UCD’s Belfield campus, demonstrating the engineering skills of these first-year students. -
‘Bionano’ studies to help nanomedicine News
12.04.2013 Nanotechnology holds promise for medicine, particularly for accessing cells and tissues in new ways. Claire O’Connell found out from Dr Anna Salvati why it’s important to... -
How genetic testing of horses can pinpoint a Grand National winner News
05.04.2013 Irish company Equinome believes it may be onto a winner with its speed gene test to help horse owners and breeders produce horses that are best suited to run in steeplechases... -
Prof Emma Teeling says secret of everlasting youth may lie within bats’ DNA (videos) News
12.03.2013 Prof Emma Teeling is a leading international scientist in the fields of mammalian phylogenetics and comparative genomics. At a Women in Science and Technology (WITS) event last... -
Restored Hearing plans to raise €500,000 to support R&D and sales growth News
08.03.2013 Restored Hearing, a company established by students from University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of Edinburgh, is seeking to raise €500,000 to support R&D into a cure... -
Starbursts offer a cosmic lab for physics News
07.03.2013 When Prof Lorraine Hanlon is not tracking down massive bursts of energy from exploding stars in the universe, she is working to get the public more engaged with physics. Claire... -
Med tech at the interface of nano and medical implants News
22.10.2012 With a major conference on biointerfaces taking place in Dublin this week, we find out more about how engineering surfaces at the nanoscale can offer a boost to implantable... -
How cities can draw upon technology to become smarter and more sustainable News
21.02.2013 Up to 600 delegates from all over the world are convening in Dublin this week for the eighth forum of the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty (WACAP) to explore how cities...Categories: Sustainability, Software, Science, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineer, Energy, Education, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Design -
Intune’s latest breakthrough – software defined networks across hundreds of miles News
17.01.2013 Dublin technology company Intune Networks this morning claimed it has designed the world’s first distributed switch which is capable of extending Software Defined Networks... -
UCD, RCSI and TCD create new biomedical engineering alliance News
19.12.2012 A new collaboration called the Dublin Biomedical Engineering Research Initiative is being launched this week by Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD) and... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 20-16 News
17.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs...Tags: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, LED, Medical, MedTech, James Dyson Award, Dyson , NASA, UCC, UCD, TCD, Science Review 2012 -
Job security is a key barrier to uptake of cloud computing by IT managers News
12.12.2012 A key barrier to the uptake of cloud computing technologies is reassuring and convincing IS/IT managers that their jobs would not become obsolete if they shifted to the cloud, a... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 45-41 News
10.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
Surface engineer Dr Denis Dowling scoops NovaUCD innovation award News
06.12.2012 NovaUCD has given its 2012 Innovation Award to Dr Denis Dowling, the director of the Surface Engineering Research Group at University College Dublin (UCD), in recognition of the... -
Three academics receive Enterprise Ireland commercialisation awards News
29.11.2012 Three academics received commercialisation awards yesterday, when Enterprise Ireland held its Big Ideas Technology Showcase at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, where 19 researchers... -
Robotics events around Ireland for EU Robotics Week News
27.11.2012 EU Robotics Week kicked off yesterday and it’s the first year Ireland is taking part to showcase what’s happening in the robotics research space in the country and to help... -
Genomics scientist Dr Emmeline Hill wins woman entrepreneur award News
14.11.2012 Dr Emmeline Hill, a genomics scientist who is the co-founder of the equine genomics company Equinome, has been named as ‘woman entrepreneur of the year’ by Irish Tatler magazine. -
Intel awards five Women in Technology scholars at Leixlip campus News
21.11.2012 Intel has awarded five third-level students with scholarships as part of its 2012 Women in Technology programme that aims to encourage women to pursue careers in science and... -
PurOrigin wins start-up award at NovaUCD for dryer innovation News
21.11.2012 PurOrigin, a new start-up that’s focusing on designing energy-efficient appliances for the home, has won the 2012 start-up award at NovaUCD for its first product, a clothes...