Heart-Warming Message from RDS Exam Guy Alan Hunter
It’s exam season in UCD, and as ever, students are scrambling to cram in as much as study as possible on a bare amount of sleep and questionable amounts of…
Super-Lecturers: What UCD Staff Are Doing to Save Lives
Sample testing, developing biotechnology, mapping virus clusters and performing clinical trials; University College Dublin (UCD) is home to a wide range of people who have worked extensively over the past…
Mature Student Diaries: Being a Mum and Getting That 1.1
March 12th, when we were all told to go home from our lovely new adventure in UCD, seems like a lifetime ago. Here we are, six weeks in and the…
COVID-19: Cén chuma atá ar an scéal le imeacht míosa?
Tá mí caite ó 12 Márta, nuair a sheas an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar os comhair lucht na meán in Washington agus a d’fhógair go ndruidfear scoileanna, coláistí agus saoráidí cúram…
Printers of the Pandemic: UCD Academic Develops 3D Printed Ventilator
As the COVID-19 pandemic gains momentum, the supply of ventilators is becoming increasingly scarce. According to a report from Imperial College London, 30% of patients hospitalised need mechanical ventilation. Many…
Rumen at Work: How to Make a Climate-Friendly Cow
With fertile soils, a temperate climate and abundant rain water, Ireland is ideal for farming. Our farming output is much higher than our population’s needs, so we are able to…
Cutting Out the B.S. (Bad Sources)
Why did it take so long for the world to tune in to just how detrimental this pandemic could be if not handled properly? Why has it continuously been compared…
Green Lockdown: Staying Sustainable During COVID-19
The novel coronavirus has had a beneficial impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Fewer cars on the road, and fewer businesses running, have caused our collective carbon footprint to drastically drop.…
Road to Nowhere: Class of 2020 Pulls the Short Straw
The Class of 2020 may be remembered as the class of COVID-19, but the current pandemic should not be their only concern. Ireland’s newest graduates will enter an environmentally scarred…
No Pennies Saved: Ireland’s Failure to Fund Higher Education
There are issues in Irish politics that get more attention than others. It’s a sad reality of democracy – issues that get votes have money thrown their way and others,…
Advice For Students Dealing With Anxiety | UCD Chaplaincy
In the summer of 2013, I received the most ludicrous phone call of my life. It was from a Garda who informed me that I had been fined €1,400 and…
Mature Student Diaries: Keeping Up With College – And The Kids Too!
Since February, when I started attending UCD’s Innovation Academy, we’ve been presented with a variety of daily challenges, everything from building lego ducks (not kidding) to real life industry problems,…