Leading Irish law firm McCann FitzGerald LLP and University College Cork (UCC) today announce the introduction of a new sustainability focused curriculum for students at UCC’s School of Law.

• Four UCC researchers receiving a combined €890,000 funding in the Marie Skłodowska -Curie Actions (MCSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship awards 2023.
• Dr Lorena Morales García to investigate the changes in brain development due to altered early life microbiota in newborns who have undergone a C-section birth.

• Two Choctaw-Ireland scholars Skylee Glass and Aurianna Jewell Joines graduate from UCC.
• The scholarships foster and deepen the ties between Ireland and Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
• The scholarships recognise the act of generosity and humanitarianism shown by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma towards the people of Ireland during the Great Famine of the mid-Nineteenth century.

• Drug commonly used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer sees tumour shrinkage in several other cancer types.
• Cancer treatment combination may have more uses than previously thought.

• Review finds no increase in suicide rate during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• A range of factors during the pandemic served as protective effects to the risk of suicide.
• Study also highlights the need for high-quality and timely data on suicide deaths worldwide.

• Archives of the SoundEye Festival and Meshworks donated to the UCC.
• The Archives feature an extensive collection of materials related to contemporary poetry.
• The acquisition marks an important step the development of contemporary cultural collections at the university.

• Female led project brings together experts from APC Microbiome Ireland a world leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), The Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity College Dublin, University of Exeter and University of Bristol.

A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be, in part, a forgery following new examination of the remnants.

The discovery has led the team led by Dr Valentina Rossi of University College Cork, Ireland (UCC) to urge caution in how the fossil is used in future research.

University College Cork (UCC) has appointed Seán Kelly to be its first Arts and Culture Officer.

• The transformation brought by the rise in connected devices has significant environmental consequences, UCC and MTU conference hears.
• The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide is forecast to almost double to more than 29 billion IoT devices in 2030.
• Conference addresses issues in human-computer interaction with smart objects and materials.