Thursday, December 5, 2019

John Bell wins UCD award

Dr John Bell, director of of Healthy Planet, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission has received the 2019 University College Dublin alumni award in research, innovation and impact.

John, a past pupil of CBS Synge Street, obtained a D.Phil in Oxford. His thesis was on Seamus Heaney on cultural nationalism.

John spent a number of years with the Dominican Order in the early 1980s.

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