The Irish Research Council has today announced €27m in funding for new research projects under the Irish Research Council’s flagship Government of Ireland programmes. The investment will fund 316 awards in total, namely 239 postgraduate scholarships and 77 postdoctoral fellowships.

Now in its 20^th year, the Eli Lilly Postgraduate Research Symposium in Organic & Pharmaceutical Chemistry took place on Thursday 8^th September in the Pharmacy building, UCC.

Congratulations to our postgraduate students that presented at the 73rd Irish Chemistry Research Colloquium, and in particular to the following prize winners.

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. 

Congratulations to researchers from the School of Chemistry and College of Science, Engineering and Food Science who have secured funding through Science Foundation Ireland's (SFI) Frontiers for the Future initiative.

A four year PhD position working on an SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme-funded project with Dr. Peter Byrne in University College Cork, starting in Summer/Autumn 2022, is now available.

Eight School of Chemistry researchers awarded.

This year's conference, a collaboration between the Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland (ESAI) and the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork, was hosted online on 16th to 18th June.