Assistant Professor Alan Seltzer has been named this year's recipient of the F.G. Houtermans Award by the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) . Recognising exceptional contributions to geochemistry by an early career scientist, the award, named in honour of physicist Friedrich Georg Houtermans, acknowledges outstanding scientific achievement at an international level.

Warns current system is too slow to respond to emerging threats and opportunities such as Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Diarmaid Ferriter has been named the patron of the Dr Éamon Phoenix Foundation , a charity dedicated to preserving and developing the legacy of Dr Éamon Phoenix.

Irish architect Níall McLaughlin has been awarded the 2026 Royal Gold Medal for architecture, the UK's highest honour in the field.

University College Dublin is to lead a €1 million research programme aimed at improving early detection of pancreatic cancer, one of Ireland's most difficult to treat cancers.

^{Professor Niamh Moore Cherry, College Principal, College of Social Sciences and Law; Professor Orla Doyle, overall winner of the 2025 UCD Research Impact Competition; and Professor Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact} A project promoting enhanced parenting support within disadvantaged communities has won the 2025 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition.

After five years of work, the otter has been captured on camera in the wild as part of a wildlife monitoring project led by a UCD researcher. Dr Adam Smith, a postdoctoral researcher at the UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science , established and is Snapshot Europe is a wildlife camera-trap exercise carried by researchers all'across Europe.

UCD Football Club claims a record-breaking fourth consecutive Irish Universities Football Union (IUFU) Harding Cup title following 3-2 victory over University College Cork.