PhD students across all areas in the School of Chemistry presented their research at the annual Research Day attended by academic staff, research staff and research students, including new students commencing PhDs in the School from September 2025. 

Members of the School braved the rain and joined a local Parkrun last Saturday.

On Thursday July 31st speakers Prof. Gerard McGlacken, Dr Davide Tiana, Dr Stig Hellebust and Dr Marco Dalla (Insight) were joined by Prof. Olaf Wiest (University of Notre Dame and Director of the US Centre for Computer Assisted Synthesis) for a mini-symposium on ‘Machine Learning, Computation and Chemistry’. Attendees included those from Academia and Industry (Pfizer, Eli Lilly and others).

School of Chemistry Professor Colm O’Dwyer was honoured for outstanding contributions to materials chemistry leading to innovations in solid state devices and electrochemical energy storage technology.

Two students from the School are currently participating in the RSC’s Broadening Horizons initiative. Earlier in June they attended the Taster Event in Manchester to bring together the scholars with alumni and industry partners.

Congratulations to our PhD students whose conferring ceremony took place on Friday the 20th of June, and our best wishes to them in their future endeavours.

Prof John Wenger and colleagues from the School of Chemistry at University College Cork hosted the National Clean Air Research Event on 26-27 May 2025, sponsored by the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment.

At the end of Spring we held our annual TY week at the School of Chemistry University College Cork. There was great demand for the program with 163 TY students from across Munster applying for the 24 places.

University College Cork has been working with Pfizer to advance important discoveries in the development of new medicines and the process to underpin their manufacture.