At least 1,200 people visited the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) last Friday as part of the school's first ever Culture Night event.

Our seven visiting American students and the International Research Experience for Students (IRES) programme principal coordinator Dr Cynthia Trowbridge finished their six week visit to the UCC labs at Lough Hyne last week.

The public can handle ancient fossils, meet slithering reptiles and marvel at carnivorous plants when the School of BEES throws open its doors for Culture Night 2013 on 20 September.

BEES postgraduate researcher Fergus McAuliffe will appear in a number of episodes of RTE's science series Science Squad, which returns this week.

The public will get a chance to handle some ancient fossils, meet slithering reptiles and view some amazing carnivorous plants when the School of BEES throws open its doors for Culture Night 2013 on September 20th.

William McCarthy successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "An Evaluation of Orogenic Kinematic Evolution Utilizing Crystalline and Magnetic Anisotropy in Granitoids" on 30th July.

UCC research, a collaboration between the Schools of BEES and Mathematics in conjunction with the University of Potsdam, has been published in the leading geology journal in the World.

This week saw the start of the second year of the visiting American student International Research Experience for Students (IRES) programme and the annual touch tank event at Lough Hyne.

Congratulations to Willy McCarthy and Cora McKenna in both picking up new jobs in the same week following on form their PhDs.

A UCC palaeontologist is showcasing her research on the colours of fossil animals at this year’s prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London.