Renowned academic, feminist and LGBT+ activist Ailbhe Smyth visited University College Cork this week to accept the University’s first Athena Swan Trailblazer Award.

• The Lord Mayor’s Reception recognised the contribution and value of Youth and Community Work education in UCC to the people of Cork and to the Cork community.
• Over 5,000 UCC Youth and Community Work graduates have gone on to lead, support, and advocate within youth, community, and voluntary organisations, as well as in public service across Cork and Ireland.
• The event will highlight UCC’s ongoing commitment to working in partnership with national and local community organisations to strengthen the community and voluntary sector.

• Students from Ireland’s prison-university education programme ‘Inside Out’ graduated at a ceremony.
• The pioneering programme saw students work together to debate university academic texts, draw on their own life experiences, and explore social inequalities and structural harms.
• This programme is the first of its kind in Ireland and is a collaboration between University College Cork, the Cork ETB Prison Education Unit and Cork Prison.

An innovative project to approach climate change communication has received funding at University College Cork (UCC).

• UCC workshop underscored storytelling and the arts as essential catalysts for effective climate communication and progress on the UN SDGs.
• Former UN Ambassador and co-founder of the 2030 SDG Agenda David Donoghue addressed the event.
• The workshop featured researchers from across UCC, research centres and partners including Met Éireann, Cork Chamber and the Glucksman.

At this week's conferrings UCC recognised founder, chairman and CEO of the O’Flynn Group Michael O'Flynn and renowned cerebral palsy (CP) advocate Lily Collison with honorary doctorates.

A new exhibition opens to the public today, which celebrates the 100 years of Ireland’s oldest university press, the Cork University Press at University College Cork (UCC). The exhibition will be formally opened today by Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Patrick O’Donovan, T.D. , with a launch address by Professor Emeritus of History, Tom Dunne.

The Northwestern Security and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (NSAIL), under the leadership of Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, and the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC Futures on AI and Data Analytics at University College Cork, under the leadership of Professor Barry O’Sullivan, have entered into a partnership to support collaboration in the area of Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, National Security.

The creation of first-generation malware detection models that are practical and effective for ‘internet of things (IoT)’ devices is to be investigated in a project led by University College Cork (UCC) researchers.

On World Book Day (March 6) a stunning collection of Irish prose and poetry by the late Michael Kirby (Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic) is published in University College Cork (UCC), while the archives of the late writer and painter will be open to the public for the first time.