UCD Foundation will be running its Autumn Calling Campaign starting on the 18th of September. It will be a six - eight week campaign with the possibility of full time winter work for top performers. We are seeking enthusiastic up to 100 students to join the team. Callers are paid €9.25 per hour. Callers who have previously worked for the Calling Campaign have found it a worthwhile experience where they learn techniques which can be applied both to sales and fundraising and enhance their current skill set, help a very worthy cause and also meet and speak with a broad range of interesting people (which includes your fellow student callers!) Read More
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Google Ireland Employees supporting deserving students.
A number of Google employees have recently chosen the UCD Champions – Changing Futures Scholarship appeal as their preferred charity for company gift matching and volunteering donations. We are delighted to announce, because of these efforts, that this autumn the first UCD Champion Scholar supported by Google staff volunteering and gift matching will be starting in UCD.
If you would like to get involved you can do so in a number of different ways.
- Through Benevity, you can allocate your Google for Doers volunteering donation towards the 'UCD Champions – Changing Futures' project.
- If you have made a direct donation to UCD Foundation you can log on to the Google Gift Matching service, where you can apply to have your gift doubled by Google.
- You can also make a donation online through the donate now button at the top of this page. Gifts of over €250 per year are not only eligible to be matched by Google but are also eligible for tax relief at a rate of 45%. This means a gift of €250 in one calendar year would be worth €612 to us at no extra cost to you.
On behalf of the students who will benefit from your generosity we would like to thank you for the incredible chance you will give them.
If you would like to learn more please contact:
Molly Dillion-Leetch
Regular Giving Assistant
Tel: +353 1 7161073
Email: info@ucdfoundation.ie
UCD Foundation is delighted to publish our annual UCD Champions – Changing Futures Impact Report
In the past year, 3,500 UCD alumni have been coming together to get behind an amazing initiative, UCD Champions– Changing Futures.
The support of our UCD Champions has enabled UCD Foundation to award 102 scholarships to deserving and hardworking students for the academic year 2016/2017, which is the largest number of scholarships we have ever been able to award.
With their support, we were also able to make a tangible difference to the student experience at UCD by supporting library books and campus facilities.
Below you can read the impact that being a UCD Champion has on the lives of our scholarships students and the University as a whole.
Thank you to all who supported UCD in our recent fundraising campaign
In spring of this year a dedicated group of UCD student callers rang 5,000 of our alumni over a period of seven weeks to talk to them about their time in UCD as well as to fundraise for the UCD Champions – Changing Futures appeal.
Over the seven week period an amazing €330,000 was raised in aid of the UCD Champions – Changing Futures appeal. We would like to say a big thank you to the collective support of our alumni. By becoming a UCD Champion you make access to third level education more accessible and affordable, and enable bright young people to pursue their degree, regardless of their background or financial circumstances. As UCD has always attracted the keenest and brightest minds, it is important that each UCD student is given the opportunity to undertake their degree and fully participate in campus life, regardless of their means.
On behalf of the students who benefit from this scholarship appeal we would like to say a big thank you for your generosity.
Donal, Kate, Johnjoe and Leon UCD Student Callers.
UCD Newman Fellowship Programme
The annual Newman Fellowship Dinner was held on Tuesday, 25th April 2017 with UCD President Professor Andrew J. Deeks welcoming Donors, Fellows and their Academic Mentors to celebrate UCD’s pioneering postdoctoral research initiative, the Newman Fellowship Programme. During the dinner, Dr Seamus McGuinness, the Craig Dobbin Newman Fellow in Mental Health and Dr Charlene Foley, the Arthritis Ireland & Down Syndrome Ireland Newman Fellow in Down’s Arthropathy, presented their research to representatives from industry and academia.
The Programme was established 28 years ago by then President, Dr Paddy Masterson and is funded entirely by philanthropy. For more information on the programme and the fellows please contact:
Liz McFeely
Newman Fellowship Programme Coordinator
Tel: +353 1 7161287
Email: info@ucdfoundation.ie
There is no better training for students than in Richview, the home of architecture in UCD. This space includes design studios, a well-equipped workshop and building laboratory, exhibition spaces and the most extensive architectural library in the country.
Newman is a multi-storey mixture of the arts and social sciences. With lecture theatres that can house up to 500 students as well as smaller spaces for tutorials, students can share ideas with both their peers and their tutors. Whether it be current politics, history or literature there are a wide array of topics up for debate and discussion.
The UCD Student Centre is home to the UCD Student Union which aims to promote student wellbeing on campus be it mental health, disability rights, mature students or accommodation support. The UCDSU provides free counselling services as well as running life skills courses for students suffering from depression or anxiety.
The James Joyce Library receives on average one million visits per year. Behind these doors there is vast study space amongst hundreds of books and academic journals. The library’s special collections houses the first documentation of the Flight of the Earls, a letter written to Éamon de Valera as well as numerous manuscripts by some of Ireland’s most celebrated writers such as Frank McGuinness, Edna O’Brien, and Maeve Binchy.
Each of the seven schools in the UCD College of Science engages in exciting and internationally recognised research. Research includes drug discovery, development and delivery which aim to identify biomarkers, novel therapeutic targets to guide drug development and target medicines toward specific populations.