Conducting scientific research is one thing - explaining it to a lay audience is another. On Wednesday evening (March 24th 2010) topics such as Harnessing Wave Power, Cracking the Cheese Problem, the Internet, the Battle for Iron Inside the Body, Transport in the Quantum World and Improving Electronic devices are among the subjects to be presented at the Final of the sixth annual UCC Science for All Postgraduate Student Public Presentation Competition.
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A team of scientists led by Dr Max Dow from the Signalling and Pathogensis group at the BIOMERIT Research Centre, Department of Microbiology, Biosciences Institute, UCC have had their recent findings accepted for publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Ten American College Admissions Counsellors from prestigious high schools throughout New England began their one-week tour of Irish universities at UCC. This latest campus visit at UCC from March 14th to 16th is the second in two weeks by staff of US high schools interested in encouraging their students to study at Irish universities.
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A new spread that combines honey and cream cheese created by UCC students was the winner of the UCC New Food Product Development Showcase. This Showcase is an annual exhibition of new food products developed by students from the BSc Food Science and BSc Food Business degree programmes at UCC as part of their final-year research projects.
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UCC spin-out company, Glantreo has signed a $10 million deal with a major US company, a global player in the chromatography and separations area. Glantreo is a high tech materials company that was created to commercialise the materials/science chemical separations research that is been carried out in Irish universities.
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University College Cork (UCC) is in the final stages of negotiating an official agreement with Temple University Japan (TUJ). TUJ is the international campus of Temple University, Philadelphia and is located in central Tokyo.
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Industry and academia have joined forces this week (March 8th-12th 2010) to showcase careers in the high-tech sector to talented transition year students with aspirations towards careers in science and engineering.
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Awards were presented recently for the inaugural Annual Debate among Second Year undergraduate dental students at the University Dental School & Hospital. Various controversial topics were addressed with great skill by the several teams involved and all members of the class participated.
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Tyndall National Institute, UCC will host two of the five initial industry-led Competence Centres launched today (Wednesday, March 10th 2010) by Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment Mary Coughlan TD.
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