Published: 12 Jan, 2021

Pioneering technique offers oral precancer diagnosis

A novel, non-invasive method for detecting precancerous oral lesions early could lead to more effective oral cancer treatments, as well as improved survival rates.

Published: 16 Dec, 2020

TU Dublin partner in EU project to revise food security procedures for safe food delivery

The restaurant and catering industries have been negatively affected by the restrictions put in place to manage COVID-19, requiring new guidance for food companies on how to demonstrate that effective controls are in place to mitigate risks associated with COVID-19.

Published: 2 Jul, 2020

TU Dublin to Host AICS Conference 2020

The School of Computer Science will host the 28th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS2020) which take place online from 7-8 December 2020.

Published: 6 Apr, 2020

RTE Brainstorm - How Dublin dealt with the 19th-century cholera epidemic

Fr Alan Hilliard, Co-ordinator of the Chaplaincy Service at TU Dublin, City, says there are many parallels between today's Covid-19 pandemic and the cholera outbreak of the 1820s and 1830s

Published: 9 Apr, 2020

RTÉ Brainstorm - How to understand the numbers behind the coronavirus

Elizabeth Hunter, a PhD researcher at the School of Computer Science at TU Dublin, says certain statistics allow us to model the spread of the disease to prepare for future outbreaks and respond to current outbreaks.

Published: 24 Sep, 2020

TU Dublin Researchers to Develop Saliva-Based Covid-19 Test With Results Available In Just Minutes

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD has today announced that researchers at TU Dublin had been awarded funding to develop a saliva-based screening process which can detect COVID-19 in a matter of minutes.

Published: 17 Sep, 2020

TU Dublin Researchers Join Europe-wide EIT Food’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Safety Project

Dr Maria Chiara Leva is working with a team from the School of Food Science and Environmental Health, which includes Dr Orla Cahill, Dr Uma Tiwari, Mr Greg Bruke, Mr Fintan Moran and Ms Sara Boyd, on a project funded under the EIT Food’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Call for Innovation.

Published: 25 Sep, 2020

Helping researchers discover new concepts about COVID-19

The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD announced on Thursday that Dr Muhammad Atif Qureshi, a Lecturer in the College of Business at TU Dublin and researcher with the SFI ADAPT Centre had received funding for a COVID-19 project.

Published: 17 Sep, 2020

The public, private lives of Generation Z

Dr Rachel O Connor, Student Engagement and Experience Officer at TU Dublin, says new research finds that Generation Z students are comfortable with and expect the most private aspects of life to be a topic of debate.

Published: 14 Sep, 2020

How literary locations help us understand the world we inhabit

Dr Sue Norton, a lecturer of English at the School of Languages, Law & Social Sciences at TU Dublin, says places in poems and books can be satisfying at any time, but especially at times like these when we can't actually travel.

Published: 3 Jun, 2020

From rainbows to fibre optic magnetic sensors

As a child growing up in China, Fangfang Wei, a PhD student at TU Dublin, was always fascinated with optical properties such as the colours of a rainbow, the polarisation of a pair of sunglasses or the beam of a light pen.

Published: 14 Sep, 2020

People with intellectual disabilities research Covid-19 experiences

PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities have been hit hard by the closure of their day services and workplaces during the Covid-19 crisis.

Published: 8 Jun, 2020

TU Dublin Project Secures Over €4m in Horizon 2020 Funding

Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) will coordinate an international research project which aims to enhance the spatial ability of young people and to help close the gender gap in STEM.

Published: 17 Aug, 2020

Minister Harris Announces Two Enterprise Partnership Scheme Awards for TU Dublin

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, has today, 17 August, announced an investment of €4.3 million in 50 enterprise-focused research awards under the Irish Research Council’s Enterprise Partnership Scheme.

Published: 3 Apr, 2020

Vitamin D can help build resistance to respiratory infections, including Covid-19

Researchers from Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) and Trinity College Dublin (Trinity) have said that taking Vitamin D supplements may enhance resistance to respiratory infections such as Covid-19, or limit the severity of the illness for those that do become infected.

Published: 14 Jan, 2020

TU Dublin Research Centre secures three nominations at Irish Laboratory Awards

Published: 9 Jan, 2020

TU Dublin awarded €2.1 million under Regional Enterprise Development Fund

Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) is delighted to have been awarded Regional Enterprise Development funding totalling €2,149,940 to develop The Collaboratory, an Industry Solutions Hub, focusing on Cyber Security, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence.