Congratulations to Glandore National School, winners of the massive Primary Science Quiz held recently at University College Cork.

UCC Conference Office would like to congratulate the UCC Conference Ambassadors heralded at last week’s Cork Convention Bureau & Meet in Ireland Conference Ambassador Awards held in the Cork International Hotel.

Women in Technology and Science (WITS) promotes and supports women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

The annual Chemistry Department Christmas Coffee Morning  in aid of the Marymount Hospice will take place a little earlier this year, on Tuesday, 6^th December from 10.00 to 12.00 in the Aula Maxima.

Well done to Dr. Ger McGlacken, Rachel Shanahan and the quinolone group who were awarded the ‘Purdy Lucey Invention of the Year (Life Science)’ at UCC last week.

Scientists in Cork have discovered a drug that increases appetite, in a development they believe may also point the way to a drug that can trigger weight loss.

This Thursday, 10^th November UCC will celebrate the achievement of its 2016 Long Service Award recipients (35 or 25 years’ service to UCC).

This week saw John O'Connell graduate in the autumn conferrings with a PhD degree.

Today saw 56 students graduate with BSc (Hons) degrees in Chemistry, Chemistry of Pharmaceutical Compounds, Chemistry with Forensic Science, Science (Chemistry) Education and Chemical Physics.

Prof. John Sodeau is the 2016 winner of the Annual Chemistry Award of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland.