Rhona serves as the Global Head of Portfolio and Product Development Strategy at Genentech/Roche. Having completed her undergraduate degree and PhD with DCU, Rhona joined Genentech in 1995 as a Post-Doctoral researcher. In 2018, the San Francisco Business Times recognised Rhona as one of 2018’s Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. In this piece,...Continue Reading
Memorial scholarships are an important part of how the DCU community remembers our past students, staff and friends who played an important role in the life of the university. Each year, DCU Educational Trust honours those remembered through memorial scholarships by celebrating their life and legacy at DCU Educational Trust’s annual Service of Remembrance and...Continue Reading
On Wednesday, 8th December, Dublin City University hosted a special online event entitled “Creating Workplaces Where Talent Belongs” to mark the launch of the DCU Access to the Workplace Programme for 2022. DCU Access to the Workplace was launched in 2019 as an additional support to enhance the career prospects and social mobility of DCU...Continue Reading
David Feighery, Director of Operations at Jacobs explains why they were inspired to support DCU’s Access to the Workplace Programme while Access Student, Pietre O’Sullivan, describes how the Access to the Workplace Programme was an invaluable opportunity for him.Continue Reading
DCU Access to the Workplace provides DCU Access students with a high quality internship during their summer break, hosted by leading Irish companies participating in the programme. In this video, Maria Maguire, Head of the Academy at Bank of Ireland, explains why they were inspired to support DCU’s Access to the Workplace Programme while Access...Continue Reading
Éanna De Buitléir is a DCU alumnus who has been supporting the university since 2016. He is now working in logistics in the humanitarian sector, with a French NGO based in Yemen. Despite the challenges that come with where he works today, Eanna has managed to continue to support DCU philanthropically and has always seen...Continue Reading
DCU Access to the Workplace provides DCU Access students with a high quality internship during their summer break, hosted by leading Irish companies participating in the programme. In this video, Patrick Quinlan, Partner at Maples and Calder, the law firm of the Maples Group in Dublin, explains why they were inspired to support DCU’s Access...Continue Reading
This week, Dublin City University welcomed the chief executives of four Digicel Foundations in the Caribbean to the university’s Glasnevin Campus. The CEOs, who lead foundations working to create social change in Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago and Papua New Guinea, were visiting DCU to access insights from leading DCU researchers on creativity and social...Continue Reading
A state-of-the art mixed reality leadership lab designed to develop next generation leaders was officially launched at Dublin City University today in memory of Colm Delves. The lab was established with philanthropic support from Digicel, to honour business leader and DCU alumnus Colm Delves who made a long lasting contribution to the university through support...Continue Reading
Arthur Cox has supported DCU since 2008. This year they took part in the DCU Access to the Workplace Programme, having an Access student intern with them over the summer of 2021. In this piece, Anne Frain, Events and CRM Manager at Arthur Cox LLP, tells us about the benefits of taking part in the...Continue Reading