YEAR IN REVIEW
The Billionaire Who Wasn’t Confucius Institute for Ireland. Although “International experience shows that
launched at UCD China, Japan and other Asian countries where universities and hospitals combine
Until recently little was known of Chuck are not currently in a position to create an and take a more holistic view of their core
Feeney, the secretive billionaire ‘Asian Euro’, each of them should fix activities – patient treatment, education
philanthropist whose foundation Atlantic their currencies to each other and the US and research – they have the ability to make
Philanthropies has donated several hundred dollar, according to Mundell, who is often an enormous contribution to patient care,”
million dollars to universities on both sides referred to as the ‘Father of the Euro’. says DAHC’s chairman, Thomas Lynch.
of the Irish border. But with the
publication of a new book entitled The Milo O’Shea, Alfred Brendel
Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck and Prof Amartya Sen
Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a
Fortune, by Conor O’Clery, all that has
changed. In September, O’Clery launched
his book at the UCD
Campus Bookshop,
where UCD President
Dr Hugh Brady
commended him
for “capturing the
essence of a
unique man”. UCD honours awarded to veteran UCD Ulysses Medals to three
Irish actor, leading economist and worthy recipients
classical pianist Leading Irish businessman Dermot
One of Ireland’s most successful actors, Milo Desmond (pictured below) was one of three
Nobel O’Shea, was conferred with an honorary distinguished figures awarded the UCD
Laureate and Doctorate of Literature by UCD in June for his Ulysses Medal over the past year. He was
co-discoverer outstanding achievements as an actor across also conferred with an honorary
of structure stage, film and television. At the ceremony, Doctorate of Laws by the university last
of DNA at UCD UCD also honoured Professor Amartya Sen November for his outstanding
In September, Nobel with an honorary Doctorate of Laws for his contribution to business innovation and
prize-winning work on famine, human development enterprise in Ireland. Nobel prize-winning
scientist, Dr James D. theory, welfare economics, the underlying scientist Professor Ferid Murad was also
Watson, one of mechanisms of poverty and political awarded the medal in recognition of his
the most influential liberalism. An honorary Doctorate of Music discovery of the use of nitric oxide in drug
figures in 20th- was also conferred on the pianist Alfred development and disease therapy, as was
century science, gave Brendel in recognition of his outstanding US Nobel Laureate Professor Robert H.
a public lecture to a packed auditorium at contribution to musical performance. Grubbs, whose work has led to more
UCD. At the age of 25, Watson and his co- efficient chemical-making methods which
worker Francis Crick published a landmark New departure in healthcare produce less hazardous materials.
paper in the journal Nature describing the Patients are to benefit from a new
double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic joined-up governance structure that forges
acid, DNA. For their work, along with an academic-medical model between UCD
Maurice Wilkins, the two scientists received and its teaching hospitals. Dublin Academic
the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Health Care (DAHC) will pool the resources
Medicine. of the university’s medical school, St
Vincent’s University Hospital, and the Mater
Nobel Laureate economist & ‘Father Misericordiae Hospital in a bid to enhance
of the Euro’ at UCD bench-to-bedside translation of ongoing
Nobel prize-winning economist Professor research into conditions like inflammation,
Robert Mundell spoke in August at the heart disease, cancer, brain disorders and
inaugural conference of the UCD infectious disease.
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