UCD Foundation was established in 1997 to advance the strategic goals and objectives of University College Dublin under the direction of an independent Board of Directors.
The Foundation’s primary functions are to generate financial support for research and teaching, to fundraise for development programmes and to support academic initiatives.
Since 1998, UCD Foundation has raised in excess of €90 Million in support of the development of UCD. The challenge today is to position the university to facilitate a new wave of Ireland’s development in the highly competitive and globalised 21st Century. To this end, UCD relies on our support and the extraordinary support of her alumni, donors and friends to help it achieve its mission.
As part of the UCD Foundation staff you would join over 15 other dedicated staff to aid in the fundraising activities of the Foundation. Working from UCD Main Campus, the team engages in a wide variety of fundraising events and campaigns. The dynamic team regularly engages with students, staff, Alumni and donors in order to pursue the most effective strategies to reach our fundraising targets.
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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.