UCC will host an exciting line-up of interactive talks, shows and workshops as part of Cork Science Festival, which kicks off this Sunday.

Executioner proteins, high-intensity interval training for cancer recovery, gold nanoparticles to fight oesophageal cancer, gut bacteria that may influence epilepsy, and light activated polymers to kill infections, were just some of the projects announced by the Health Research Board (HRB) and Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG).

A new online CPD asthma management programme has been launched at UCC.

The course was developed by the the School of Pharmacy and the Department of Physiotherapy at UCC in collaboration with the Physiotherapy Department of University Hospital Kerry, the Asthma Society of Ireland and Health Innovation Hub Ireland and supported by Glaxo Smithkline.

It is with great sadness that University College Cork has learned of the death of Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

University College Cork’s College of Medicine and Health has generated €100 million in research income over the last five years through research centres like APC Microbiome Ireland.

New UCC research has shown that there is a decrease in Irish bird populations in areas immediately adjacent to wind turbines.  

Microbe Mom, a new collaboration between academia and industry set to generate health solutions for mothers and infants in Ireland, has been launched. 

Lecture with Dr Steve Aiken OBE MLA - Chief Whip Ulster Unionist Party, Brexit and Finance Spokesperson: 3 to 4 pm this afternoon (Thursday, October 18) at the CACSSS Seminar Room, (Room G27) in the O’Rahilly Building, UCC. All welcome, no registration necessary.

UCC President Professor Patrick O’Shea today signed the Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH) commitment, making UCC the first Irish University to sign, joining about 100 Universities worldwide who have already done so.

Ireland’s seven universities have started a campaign aimed at encouraging the public to demand that the Government tackles the funding crisis in Third Level education.