Thanks to our College of Science, Engineering and Food Science staff and students who participated in the Cork Carnival of Science recently. The event was held at Fitzgerald Park and featured family-friendly experiments, interactive activities, garden games, street cuisine and live demonstrations. 

UCC research has discovered remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, were able to control the colour of their feathers using melanin pigments.

The World’s most-consulted university ranking has placed UCC as number one in Ireland, and in the top 100 internationally for Agriculture and Forestry

The Tom and Mary Cross Prize 2022 has been launched to promote the importance of research publications by Postdoctoral Fellows at BEES.

Researchers from the UCC/Aberystwyth University Brainwaves project recently celebrated World Water Day. Brainwaves takes a circular economy approach to sustainable agriculture. 

The School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Tree Explorers Project has launched a new self-guided tour of its globally-recognised Arboretum, which is being made completely free of charge to the public.

Academics from the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) recently addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine on the role of gene-editing technology in sustainable food production.

Students from the MSc Marine Biology have returned from Scotland after participating in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science's first residential fieldcourse in two years.

Graduates of UCC's Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree can now add trained farmer status (also known as the ‘Green Cert’) to their qualifications. This is the basic agricultural qualification necessary to qualify as a Young Trained Farmer (YTF). On completion of a Green Cert course, students meet the requirements of a qualified farmer for the purposes of all Revenue and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) schemes.