Dr Cian Hughes looks through one of the new sensors. Credit: Daire Hall

(L-R) Jason Sherlock, Director of Development at DCU's Educational Trust, Doone O'Doherty, People Partner with PwC, Fiona Hudson, DCU’s Access to the Workplace Programme Development Lead, Kathryn Thomas, broadcaster and DCU student Victoria Babela.

Sustainable development is a key driver for the university’s recently launched 2023-2028 strategy, Transformation for an Unscripted Future.

The students were recognised for achieving more than 600 points in the Leaving Certificate exams, or two A grades and one B in the A-levels.

Professor Sean Jordan pictured with rocks that are about 3.5 billion years old from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia. The rocks on the table are a mixture of those and some other samples around 2.5 billion years old, also from Western Australia.

The new Quiet Space in the Henry Grattan building on the university’s Glasnevin campus.