Left-Right: Colm O'Reardon, Secretary General, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; Dr Jennifer Gaughran, DCU, Co-lead PUreTex Team; Dr Niall Maloney, ATU, Lead of the NanoSA Team; Dr Susan Kelleher, DCU, Lead of the PUreTex team; and Dr Ruth Freeman, Director of Research for Society, Research Ireland. Photo: Johnny Mallin.

Dr Pia O'Farrell, Prof Catherine Furlong, Mr Paul Hazzard and Dr Sabrina Fitzsimons

Prof Daire Keogh presents Prof Tomas Ward with his President's Award Photo: Kyran O'Brien

Winning journalists Aoife Hegarty and Lucy Kennedy, with Dr Declan Fahy, Head of the School of Communications at DCU

Co-chair of the Graduate Diploma in Gifted Education, Dr Orla Dunne

Prof Jane Suiter, Shari Irfan and Prof Anne Looney Photo: Kyran O'Brien