The School of Biotechnology Class of 2019
On Thursday, the 7th of November, the seven schools that make Dublin City University’s Faculty of Science of Health celebrated as one as part of DCU’s autumn graduation ceremony were held in Mahony Hall. Despite the wet weather, spirits were high as some 386 students that comprised the Class of 2019 received their awards in front of their families, friends, and Faculty staff that filled the Helix on this day.
Before the awards were handed out, DCU President Brian MacCraith addressed the awardees with an impassioned speech, encouraging them to be ‘citizens of the world’ and ‘tackle the challenges society faces’. President MacCraith then detailed but a few of the recent research success stories to emanate from the faculty this year; such as the growth of the Water Institute research centre as it expands its operation globally, to the initiation of DCU-lead clinical trials aiming to develop improved therapeutic strategies against breast cancer.
‘In your next steps, we hope you’ve been armed with courage to bring about transformation. We hope our mission statement here in DCU has armed you with the courage to do that every day’
DCU President Brian MacCraith
In addition to the 77 undergraduate degrees awarded across the BSc. in Biotechnology and BSc. in Genetics and Cell Biology, the School of Biotechnology were delighted to have one Masters and ten number of Doctorates of Philosophy awarded in the same ceremony. In line with President MacCraith’s speech, the impact of the research conducted as part of these studies very much addressed a breadth of societal problems, with research titles spanned nanotechnological approaches to treating cardiovascular disease to profiling the beneficial effects of milk proteins on the immune system to creating more energy-efficient industrial bioprocessing systems.
The School of Biotechnology wishes our graduates, and all the other graduates that received awards as part of the DCU autumn graduation, the very best in their future endeavours.
As part of the DCU autumn graduation, the Faculty of Science and Health ceremony was one of ten held over five days. By the close of these proceedings, 4,591 students were awarded their qualifications.