Dr. Barbara Doyle Prestwich has been appointed as President of the International Association of Plant Biotechnology (2015 to 2018) at the 2014 meeting held recently in Melbourne, Australia.

Paulina Mastalerz, an Erasmus-exchange student at Helsinki University and BEES, UCC has recently featured on Hortidaily.com.

Earlier this month, a group of visiting American students arrived at Lough Hyne to begin a 5 week programme of training in research methods.

Two complementary exhibitions will open this week at the Glucksman Gallery, UCC in association with the School of BEES.

A BEES researcher has been involved in the discovery of the first ever example of a primitive plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales.  Previously only advanced flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers so this new find indicates that all dinosaurs could have been feathered.

It is lonely at the top: the saga of the endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel

UCC selected by United Nations Environment Programme to lead consortium to address global water issues and environmental sustainability

BEES PhD student Darren Reidy has teamed up with radio producer J.J. O'Shea to create a four part radio documentary entitled "The Kerry Way".

Dr Grace Cott has been awarded an Irish Research Council Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Maryland and University College Cork. This 3 year fellowship is co-funded by Marie Curie Actions and the Irish Research Council.

A collaborative paper by Dr Sarah Culloty (Acting Head of School) and Dr Sharon Lynch (Research Fellow) with their Welsh partners at Bangor University has recently been published in PLOS ONE.