Prof. Holmes recently returned from a tour of the Middle East where he was representing Ireland as part of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2nd Gulf symposium on the ‘Design and Applications of Advanced Materials’.

Michelle Conroy 3rd year Ph.D. student is currently interning in Prof. Boon Ooi’s research group in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.

On Monday 8th December 2014 six members of the Chemistry Department were awarded postgraduate certificates and diplomas in teaching and learning in higher education from UCC.

David Jones was honoured at a Global Summit in Dublin, 19^th-21^st November in the presence of the patron President Michael D Higgins, as a winner in the prestigious Undergraduate Awards 2014.

The annual 3rd year (SCILS module) and 4th year (Research Projects module) poster session took place in Kampus Kitchen yesterday.

Dr Gillian Collins was the recipient of a prestigious NUI Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Sciences, 1 of only 2 awards given out by the NUI in 2014.

Dr. Eileen O'Leary, Dept of Chemistry University College Cork, has been recognised as a Teaching Hero by her students in the inaugural National Teaching Hero Awards.

Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department at UCC, Vera Foley, was part of the Cork Ladies Football team which beat Dublin 2-13 to 2-12 in today's Senior All-Ireland Ladies Football Final.

Dr. Micheál Scanlon has been awarded a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Starter Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) and will return full circle to begin his independent research in the Chemistry Department at UCC under the mentorship of Dr. Colm O’Dwyer.

Prof. Colm O'Dwyer has been awarded an Impact Award in the 2014 University Staff Recognition Awards Programme.