With great sadness we must announce the loss of our esteemed colleague and friend Professor Laurence Declan Burke.

Yang Chen, PhD student in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Research Institute, was awarded the prize for Best Oral Presentation at the 9^th Annual EPA Postgraduate Conference.

The BSc Chemistry and BSc Chemistry of Pharmaceutical Compounds degree courses are now both approved by the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.

An intensive two day training session was organised by Agilent technologies for the Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC) researchers in the Chemistry Department.

2011 represents the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Boyle’s famous scientific paper entitled, “The Sceptical Chymist”.

John O'Donoghue, winner of the oral presentation category of UCC's doctoral showcase 2011, talks about his research, competing in the Showcase and the challenges of communicating research to a non-specialist audience.

Congratulations to Kevin Eccles, who was award the ACS International Year of Chemistry Poster Prize at the 2011 American Crystallographic Assocation meeting in New Orleans.

UCC company, Glantreo was one of eight companies in Co Cork to be recognised as InterTradeIreland Business Ambassadors for having excelled in North-South trade and innovation.

The Minister for Research and Innovation Mr Sean Sherlock TD launched new research projects in the biomedical sphere today.

The 2011 Salter's Festival of Chemistry took place in UCC on Wednesday May 11th. In total, 13 teams  from 8 schools took part.