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Physics student Lána describes how she overcame problems with Maths in First Year On the first day of first year I found my way to my first lecture having only gotten lost twice along the way. [...]

You’ve got your Leaving Cert Results today but what happens next? Here are the key dates you need to know for the next few weeks!  CAO DATES  Monday, August 22nd On Monday the the CAO releases [...]

For anyone who has been following my blog posts for a while now you might have wondered when I’d be done with vet school – well the end is in sight as this year I enter my final year [...]

Science can be very unpredictable! 5 weeks into my 8 week internship as part of the UCD School of Physics Summer Internship Program, I found myself a little stuck. My project focused on Gamma-Ray [...]

“Spay-cation” – a spay centered (surgical procedure performed on dogs and cats to sterilise them) externship with enough time to also have a small vacation. Throughout the UCD [...]

I wrote about lambing in Donegal with a lovely family before but this time I returned with some classmates to see large animal practice in Carndonagh in the height of the lambing season. The [...]

After breaking free from the bonds of exam week, UCD students have over 3 months of summer to look forward to! With the sun out and the temperature up, there have been no shortage of beach days [...]

2016 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics – Lána Salmon Before attending the 2016 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, I asked myself – why a conference for women? After [...]

Considering studying Food Science at University?Jennifer explains why she decided to study it in UCD Three years into my undergraduate degree at UCD studying Food Science and I couldn’t be [...]

I was one of the lucky few that knew exactly what I wanted to do in college since around the start of secondary school. I had grown up in a scientific household, had been introduced from a young [...]