2008 Press Releases
04.01.2008
UCC's International Education Office welcomes, from Albany, New York,
The College of Saint Rose Chamber Singers for a lunch-time performance
in the Aula Maxima on Tuesday next, January 8th at 1.00pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
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07.01.2008
Obesity, stem cell research, stress, alternative medicine, biodiversity
and Alzheimer's Disease are among the topics to be discussed during the
2008 Faculty of Science Public Lecture Series at University College
Cork (UCC).
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08.01.2008
Epidemiological studies have shown that regular consumption of whole
grains and whole grain cereal products is associated with reduced risks
of various types of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease,
type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancers.
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08.01.2008
University College Cork (UCC) and Bowen Construction have signed a
contract at UCC for construction of a new State of the Art Research
Facility for the Tyndall National Institute (Tyndall) which is part of
a €50m development of Tyndall at the Lee Maltings, Cork.
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09.01.2008
2008 is the UNESCO 'International Year of Planet Earth' (IYPE). The
first of many initiatives will be a Public Lecture series taking place
around the country.
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09.01.2008
Preserved by the Archives Service in Special Collections of the Boole
Library are the papers of Seán Ó Riada the composer and Irish language
activist, perhaps best remembered as being the first to blend Irish
traditional music with its classical counterpart, most notably in the
music which he produced for the film 'Mise Éire'.
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14.01.2008
Over 400 guests from the world of business and academia are expected at
UCC's "Town Meets Gown" Reception tomorrow, Tuesday, January 15th 2008.
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15.01.2008
Energy Minister Eamon Ryan today (January 15th 2008) announced a major
programme of activity, grants and supports to develop ocean energy in
Ireland. Over €26 million in targeted funding will go to the sector
over the next three years.
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15.01.2008
The Munster Council of the GAA presented fifteen students from UCC with
GAA Scholarships on Monday, January 14th 2008. The scholarships are
in addition to the 100 Sports Scholarships presented to UCC students
last November.
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16.01.2008
UCC pioneered the recognition of the importance of childhood with the
provision of the BA Degree in Early Childhood Studies in 1995.
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16.01.2008
UCC is delighted to announce the introduction of its Graduate Entry to
Medicine programme starting in September, 2008. The UCC Graduate Entry Medicine programme has been developed in conjunction with the Irish Universities Medical Schools Consortium with programmes being introduced also at UCD and NUI Galway.
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18.01.2008
UCC Students' Union (SU) hosts this year's Raise and Give Festival from
January 20th-25th 2008. The aim of the SU RAG is to raise at least
€50,000 for children's charities.
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18.01.2008
Teleological arguments for the existence of God based on evidence of
design in nature have a very long history. The latest manifestation of
this argument is simply called Intelligent Design (ID) and has
attracted much attention, particularly in America.
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18.01.2008
Professor Fred Powell and Martin Geoghegan, Department of Applied
Social Studies, UCC have recently been awarded €271,000 to carry out
research in the area of youth, youth policy and youth work under the
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
Thematic Research Grant programme.
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21.01.2008
Allergy development, asthma, obesity and diabetes will be the topics
for discussion at a Public Forum taking place in UCC's Brookfield
Health Science Complex on Tuesday, January 29th.
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22.01.2008
The Irish Times, in association with Barry's Tea, has published a
wall-poster titled Super Irish Scientists. The poster content was
written by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science
Officer at UCC.
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24.01.2008
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mary Coughlan TD,
today (January 24th 2008) welcomed the Scientific Study on Teens' Diet,
which was presented at a RELAY organised conference in Dublin.
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24.01.2008
UCC's new €32 million Postgraduate Research Library was officially
opened today (January 24th 2008) by the Minister for Education and
Science, Ms Mary Hanafin.
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25.01.2008
The observation of blackbird nesting in a Christmas tree on the campus
shows signs of an early spring. Today (January 25th 2008) the eggs,
which were found in the nest by staff from the Office of Buildings and
Estates last week, have hatched into three young Blackbirds.
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28.01.2008
On Thursday, January 24th last, the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) hosted a guest lecture by Professor Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University. Professor Ashworth spoke on the subject of 'The Pernicious Side of Proportionality: Two Stories in the Hollowing Out of Human Rights'.
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28.01.2008
The School of Pharmacy at University College Cork has announced that it
has received a grant of €190,000 over a two year period from United Way
International - in collaboration with the Amgen Foundation - to support
its newly launched MSc in Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Systems.
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29.01.2008
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) announced (January 28th 2008) at a
board meeting held in Cork that its research commitments have exceeded
€1 billion.
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29.01.2008
The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, TD launched a new interactive science
website, Microbe Magic at UCC on January 28th 2008.
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29.01.2008
Gender, festivals, rituals and calendar customs will be the topics of
the third annual Kevin Danaher Lecture/Léacht Chaoimhín Uí Dhanachair
that will be delivered by UCC professor of folklore and ethnology
Gearóid Ó Crualaoich.
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30.01.2008
Dr Garret FitzGerald, Chancellor of the NUI and former Taoiseach
launched the Jennings Gallery at Brookfield Health
Sciences Complex, UCC on January 29th 2008.
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30.01.2008
The tenth Annual Postgraduate Fair hosted by UCC's Careers Service
takes place on Wednesday and Thursday, February 6th and 7th 2008.
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30.01.2008
UCC and the Centre for Adult Continuing Education at UCC are proud to
host a series of events to mark the AONTAS lifelong learning national
festival which runs in Ireland from February 4th-8th 2008.
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31.01.2008
A panel consisting of some of Ireland's greatest authorities on sport
will come together at UCC on Wednesday, February 6th to debate the
issue of amateurism and professionalism in Irish Sport.
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01.02.2008
"Nuclear Fusion - Energy for the Future" is the title of the next
lecture of the Faculty of Science Public Lecture Series at UCC on
February 6th. In this lecture Professor Mike Mansfield will describe the principles
that underlie attempts to harness nuclear fusion as a terrestrial
energy source.
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01.02.2008
The Department of Computer Science at University College Cork (UCC) has
been running an outreach programme, the Munster Programming Training
(MPT) since 2004 in order to engage secondary school students in
working with IT.
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04.02.2008
The Year of the Rat begins on Thursday, February 7th 2008 with UCC
marking the occasion by hosting a special performance and reception in
the Aula Maxima tomorrow, Tuesday, February 5th.
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04.02.2008
The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, TD
launched the Chaplaincy's Annual Charity Ball on Friday last (February
1st 2008). The Ball takes place on Friday next, February 8th in
the Silversprings Moran Hotel.
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04.02.2008
An indigenous national learning channel could be beamed into every home
in Ireland by 2010, after the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI)
granted a licence to the service.
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05.02.2008
Dr Louise Kenny, Senior Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UCC and Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH)
is a member of an international team of researchers who have discovered
a link between stress in pregnancy and schizophrenia in the resulting
offspring.
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05.02.2008
UCC's Biochemistry Department will host its first bi-annual Research
day on Friday, February 8th in the Multifunctional Hall, Áras na Mac
Léinn.
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06.02.2008
A new part-time Masters Degree in Third Sector Management for community
and voluntary sector workers is being offered by UCC starting September
2008.
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07.02.2008
The Millennium Ecosystem Report has said that by the end of the
twenty-first century, climate change and its impacts may be the
dominant direct driver of biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem
services globally.
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07.02.2008
The Irish Institute of Chinese Studies (UCC) and Asia-Europe Foundation
(ASEF), will co-host a lecture on the topic of 'The EU Through the Eyes
of Asia - the Case of China and Hong Kong'.
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08.02.2008
An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, TD today (February 8th 2008) laid the
foundation stone for UCC's €67 million Information Technology (IT)
Building, the single biggest project in the University's €400 million
capital development programme.
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11.02.2008
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) has launched its inaugural lecture series: IODP DRILLS, the Distinguished Researcher & International Leadership Lecture Series.
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18.02.2008
The impact of stress on our daily lives is greater than ever before and
therefore stress-related disorders are having a significant impact on
the health and well-being of all.
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18.02.2008
International Cultures Festival opens tomorrow (Tuesday, February 19th)
at UCC. Organised by Áras na Mac Léinn, in association with the
International Education Office, UCC, the festival commences with the
official opening by Helen Tauro, Project Manager with the 1,000 Families Exhibition at 1pm in Devere Hall,
Student Centre.
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18.02.2008
Professor Dermot Keogh, Head of the History Department at UCC, has been
awarded the Olenin Medal by the Russian National Library at St
Petersburg (RNL). The medal was presented on January 14th 2008 by the
Director of the Library, Dr Alexander Zaitsev and by Deputy Director,
Dr Vladimir Bukreev at a ceremony attended by 200 people.
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19.02.2008
The 78th Session of the UCC Law Society will be celebrated tomorrow,
Wednesday (February 20th) with a debate on the controversial subject of
gay marriage.
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20.02.2008
Blarney Castle is one of the most popular tourist attractions in
Ireland, with over 300,000 visitors a year, the majority come to kiss
the Blarney Stone.
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20.02.2008
A new Centre for Investment Research has been established in UCC. Based
in UCC, the research centre is a joint initiative between the
Department of Economics and Department of Accounting, Finance and
Information Systems and also involves researchers at Cass Business
School (City University, London) and Dublin City University Business
School.
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20.02.2008
The Second Annual Distinguished Lecture on Criminal Justice and Human
Rights will be delivered by Judge Navanethem Pillay of the
International Criminal Court tomorrow (Thursday, February 21st 2008),
6-7.30pm, Aula Maxima, UCC.
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21.02.2008
Alzheimer's is a slowly progressive degenerative disorder of the brain
that is the most common cause of dementia as we age. The disease was
first described by Alois Alzheimer just over 100 years ago.
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21.02.2008
UCC Film Studies, in association with the Department of English, has
pleasure in welcoming Senator Eoghan Harris back to his alma mater for
a guest lecture on Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
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21.02.2008
Every year the Institute of Physics in Ireland presents a medal to the
student who comes first in the country in Leaving Cert Physics. This
year, the Medal has been awarded to UCC student, Antoinette O'Connor
for First Place in Physics in Ireland in Leaving Certificate
Examination 2007.
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22.02.2008
The Italian Ambassador to Ireland, Lucio Alberto Savoia, officially
launched a work placement scheme for UCC graduates of Italian with MPS
Asset Management Ireland Ltd.
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22.02.2008
UCC's MA in Politics Visiting Speaker Series will host a talk on Monday next, February 25th
2008 by Professor Tony Carty, Professor of Public Law in the University
of Aberdeen and the author of Philosophy of International Law.
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25.02.2008
The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is a national standardized test to
assess the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers
(including foreigners, overseas Chinese and students of Chinese
national minorities).
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25.02.2008
The Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC recently held a launch to celebrate the publications output of its staff over the last 15
months.
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25.02.2008
UCC Suas Society has pleasure in welcoming Brendan Tuohy and Beni
Oburu back to their alma mater for a special "Extraordinary Lives:
Alternative Careers" address.
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26.02.2008
UCC's top graduate is Diarmuid Early. The Graduate of the Year was
announced at the 2007 Prizegiving Ceremony at UCC yesterday (February
25th 2008) at which 40 undergraduate and postgraduate prizes were
presented to 46 prizewinners by Dr Michael Murphy, President, UCC.
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26.02.2008
UCC's Training & Development Unit, Department of Human Resources
has won the Public Sector Category Award at the Irish Institute of
Training & Development (IITD) National Training Awards.
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26.02.2008
"Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals: Drug Regulation in Ireland in the
Global Context" is the title of a book just published by Cork
University Press. The editors, Orla O'Donovan and Kathy
Glavanis-Grantham, are lecturers in the Departments of Applied Social
Studies and Sociology at UCC.
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27.02.2008
Latest data indicate that globally there are more overweight and obese
individuals than food insecure individuals. Obesity is primarily
related to lifestyle parameters including diet and exercise that affect
long term energy balance.
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27.02.2008
The Eternal Now - Warhol and the Factory '63 - '68 exhibition opens
today Wednesday (February 27th 2008) at the Glucksman Gallery.
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28.02.2008
The Departments of Applied Social Studies, Sociology and General
Practice, UCC will host a Seminar and Book Launch on Wednesday next,
March 5th 2008.
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28.02.2008
The MA in Politics Visiting Speaker Series is pleased to announce a
lecture by Professor Ian Clark, one of the leading scholars in
international relations.
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28.02.2008
Dr Michael Murphy, President, UCC, today (Thursday, February 28th 2008)
launched the first formal LGBT staff network in an Irish university.
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28.02.2008
The Health Research Board (HRB) and the Health Service Executive (HSE)
announced today (February 28th 2008) that they will jointly fund a new
Clinical Research Facility in Cork.
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04.03.2008
The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, TD,
laid the foundation stone on Friday last (February 29th 2008) for a new
laboratory building as part of the €50 million development of Tyndall
Institute in Cork.
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04.03.2008
Second-level mathematics students from all four provinces gathered at
UCC on Saturday last, March 1st for the National Final of Team Math. St
Joseph's CBS from Nenagh, Co. Tipperary emerged as winners followed by
Castletroy College, Newtown, Limerick in second place.
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05.03.2008
Leading French writer, cultural commentator and government advisor on
cultural affairs in France, Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, will visit UCC on
Friday next, March 7th to conduct a Research Seminar.
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05.03.2008
"Fit to work, Fit to play" is the theme of the Annual Conference of the
Irish Student Health Association (ISHA) which the Student Health
Department at UCC will host on Friday (7th) and Saturday (8th) March.
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05.03.2008
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mary Coughlan TD,
yesterday (March 4th 2008) launched a new initiative in postgraduate
education in the agri-food sector.
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06.03.2008
D'oscail An Dr Micheál Ó Murchú, Uachtarán, Coláiste na hOllscoile
Corcaigh, Áras Uí Thuama ar an 5 Márta 2008. Bunaíodh Ionad Cónaithe
Gaeilge COC mar chuid de Bhrú na Laoi/Castlewhite Apartments sa
bhliain 1993.
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06.03.2008
Cancer will soon be the leading cause of death in the developed world
and will double in incidence in Ireland within the next fifteen years. In the next lecture of the Faculty of Science Public Lecture Series at
UCC on Wednesday, March 12th, Professor Rosemary O'Connor will talk
about the nature and causes of different cancers.
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06.03.2008
A research study to develop tests which can be carried out on pregnant
women who could be at risk of serious complications in their pregnancy,
particularly the life-threatening condition, pre-eclampsia began at CUMH yesterday (Wednesday, March
5th 2008).
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07.03.2008
MMS Medical are pleased to announce their support for University
College Cork's (UCC's) Department of Occupational Therapy by supporting
scholarships for a Doctor of Occupational Therapy (DOccT).
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07.03.2008
UCC’s Annual Faculty of Science Public Lecture Series is running very
successfully again this year. These lectures are now routinely filmed
and are posted for public viewing on the UCC TV section of the UCC
website.
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10.03.2008
First year students of UCC's Drama and Theatre Studies course present
Howard Barker's The Possibilities at the Granary Theatre from March
12th-14th.
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10.03.2008
Ronan Daly Jermyn, one of Ireland's leading law firms recently
announced its continued support for University College Cork's UCC+ Plus
Programme.
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12.03.2008
UCC student, Beatrice Smyth was the recent winner of the Eirgrid Prize
for Best Taught Masters in Sustainable Energy at UCC. Beatrice, a
native of Donegal, is currently studying for a PhD in
Engineering at UCC.
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13.03.2008
"Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Holistic Healing or Noxious
Nonsense?" is the title of the next lecture of the Faculty of Science
Public Lecture Series at UCC on Wednesday, March 19th.
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13.03.2008
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern TD was the final guest in
this year's MA in Politics Visiting Speaker Series. At a gathering
hosted by the History Department and the Politics programme in the
Council Room on March 12th 2008, Minister Ahern argued the case for a
'Yes' vote in the upcoming Referendum.
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18.03.2008
UCC MA Drama & Theatre Studies presents "Female Parts" in the Granary Theatre on March 18th, 19th, 20th 2008.
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18.03.2008
Infection & Immunity and Food & Health will be the focus for
discussion at this year's 2nd College of Medicine & Health Joint
UCC/Cork University Teaching Hospitals Health Research Day which takes
place on Friday, June 6th 2008 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex,
University College Cork.
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18.03.2008
A new postgraduate course to meet the growing demand for health economics graduates in the public, private and non-profit sectors has been established at UCC.
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19.03.2008
What services are required in a rapidly growing suburb of Cork to
answer the needs of its residents? What is the level of pollution
coming from nearby industry and what are the potential health
implications?
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19.03.2008
The Law Society of Ireland, Cork will again be represented by two UCC
students, trainees Jennifer Keane and Marie Gavin, at the International
Final of the Louis M. Brown Client Counselling Competition which takes
place in Bangalore, India next month.
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20.03.2008
"Genes, Microbes, and Food: New Insights and Human Health Implications"
is the title of the final lecture of the Faculty of Science Public
Lecture Series at UCC on Wednesday, March 26th.
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21.03.2008
UCC yesterday (March 20th 2008) bade farewell to six of its students
who are heading to Shanghai to study in China for three months. The
group represents the first cohort of postgraduate students from UCC's
Irish Institute of Chinese Studies.
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27.03.2008
Explaining scientific research to a lay audience is the challenge for
UCC students taking part in the Grand Final of the fourth annual
Science For All Postgraduate Student Public Presentation Competition.
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01.04.2008
The 2008 BOC Gases Postgraduate Bursary was presented recently to David Goulding at The Tyndall National Institute, Cork.
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01.04.2008
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) at the Faculty
of Law, UCC will host a two-day international conference "Youth Justice
2008: Measuring Compliance with International Standards" on April 3rd
and 4th 2008 at UCC.
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03.04.2008
UCC's School of Pharmacy will this year host the 30th All-Ireland Schools of Pharmacy Research Seminar on April 3rd-4th.
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03.04.2008
Suzanne McEndoo is the winner of the Science for All Postgraduate Public Presentation Competition for 2008.
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03.04.2008
Childhood and Migration is the theme of a major international
conference taking place at University College Cork on April 9th-11th
2008.
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04.04.2008
The first purpose-built, integrated research and clinical centre
focusing on women's health and reproduction in Ireland was officially
opened today (Friday, April 4th 2008) by Mr Micheál Martin, TD,
Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment at Cork University
Maternity Hospital (CUMH).
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08.04.2008
UCC's Centre for Adult Continuing Education (CACE) will hold an Open
Information evening on Thursday next, April 10th 2008 from 6.30-9.00pm
in Devere Hall, Student Centre, UCC to launch the Centre's Continuing
Education and Professional Courses brochure.
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10.04.2008
On Thursday, April 17th, the Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods at UCC,
in association with the Irish charity, Friends of Londiani, will host a
lecture at UCC titled "Sustainable Community Development in Action."
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11.04.2008
UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy, welcomed a delegation from Quinnipiac
University, Connecticut today (Friday, April 11th 2008). The
delegation, led by Dr John L. Lahey, President of the University, are
on a two-day visit to UCC, hosted by UCC's International Education
Office.
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11.04.2008
A new Spring Conferring Ceremony took place at UCC today (Friday, April
11th 2008) for Masters and PhD students. Some 34 students graduated
from the four colleges: Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences;
Business & Law; Medicine & Health; Science Engineering &
Food Science.
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15.04.2008
The President of UCD and IUA, Dr Hugh Brady, today (Tuesday, April 15th 2008)
launched the Irish Universities Study. Using advanced internet survey
techniques the longitudinal study will capture key information from
undergraduate and postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers in
our universities.
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15.04.2008
A €5 million cross-institutional HRB PhD Scholars Programme in Health
Services Research was officially launched by the Minister for Health
and Children, Mary Harney TD on April 14th 2008.
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16.04.2008
Mr Micheál Martin, TD, Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment
announced on Tuesday, April 15th 2008 the establishment of CLARITY a
new Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Science, Engineering and
Technology (CSET).
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16.04.2008
Almost 400 female students from all over Ireland are registered for
UCC's annual WISE (Women In Science and Engineering) Programme which
takes place today and tomorrow, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th April.
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17.04.2008
UCC's Department of Management & Marketing will host a talk by
Professor Patrick Flood, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, DCU
Business School and LInK Research Centre on Monday next, April 21st
2008.
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18.04.2008
The Munster Regional Final of Debating Science Issues, (DSI) took place
today (Friday, April 18th 2008) in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex,
University College Cork.
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18.04.2008
"The European Treaty is good for Ireland", said the President of the
European Commission. President José Manuel Barroso was visiting UCC
today (Friday, April 18th 2008) where he delivered a speech to students
and guests.
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21.04.2008
A number of outstanding US scholars will convene in UCC on Thursday,
April 24th 2008 to present papers on the theme of War and American
Identity.
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21.04.2008
The enforcement of European Community environmental law, and in
particular European environmental directives, is the focus of a
conference taking place at UCC on Thursday next, April 24th 2008.
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21.04.2008
"How the US can lose the War on Terror" is the title of a public seminar to be held in UCC on Wednesday next, April 23rd.
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21.04.2008
On Thursday next, April 24th 2008, UCC will host a plenary sitting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Affairs.
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22.04.2008
Leading French sociologist, Alban Bouvier will deliver a seminar at UCC on Thursday, April 24th. Alban Bouvier is Professor of Sociology and Philosophy of Social
Science at the University of Aix-Marseille with strong ties to the
Sorbonne and CNRS.
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22.04.2008
UCC hosted the annual meeting of the Utrecht Network on Friday, April
18th and Saturday, April 19th. The network consists of thirty members
(representing thirty-three European universities) co-operating in the
area of internationalisation in the broadest sense of the word.
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23.04.2008
The Presidents of University College Cork, NUI Galway, University
College Dublin, the Provost of Trinity College and the Registrar of the
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, have announced the establishment
of a charitable company to coordinate their health research activities.
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23.04.2008
Changing Face which opens tomorrow (April 24th 2008) at the Glucksman, is a video work consisting of a series of sixty-two
portraits of young women currently participating in the Glucksman's
schools programme, Picturing our World.
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24.04.2008
The 25th Annual UCC Sports Star Awards, in association with Jury's
Hotel Cork and The Bank of Ireland UCC, were presented at a function in
Jury's Hotel, Western Road last evening, Wednesday, April 23rd 2008.
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24.04.2008
This year's annual Boole Public Lecture will be delivered by SFI
Director Professor Fionn Murtagh, a world-leading authority on
clustering, data analysis and data mining.
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25.04.2008
"Of Infants and Adolescents: Progress and Pessimism in the Development
Trajectory of International Human Resource Management" is the title of
a seminar to be hosted by UCC's Department of Management &
Marketing on Tuesday, April 29th.
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25.04.2008
UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy today (Friday, April 25th 2008)
welcomed the Minister for Integration, Mr Conor Lenihan, TD to UCC.
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28.04.2008
Eagle-eyed post-graduate students, John Lusby, Zoology, Ecology and
Plant Science Department, UCC and BirdWatch
Ireland and Dave Tosh, Queen's University Belfast, spotted the
unfamiliar remains of greater white-toothed shrew Crocidura russula in
regurgitated food remains (pellets) of barn owls and kestrels collected
at 15 locations in Tipperary and Limerick last autumn and
winter.
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29.04.2008
The sixth annual UCC WB Yeats Lecture will be delivered by Oxford
Academic, Professor John Kelly, in UCC on Wednesday, April 30th 2008.
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29.04.2008
UCC's connections with India, past, present and future, were the subjects for discussion during a visit to the University today (Tuesday, April
29th 2008) by His Excellency PS Raghavan, Ambassador of India to
Ireland.
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30.04.2008
Modern Chinese shouldn't be too difficult to learn given that more than
one fifth of the world population has successfully mastered that
language. For Irish tongues and ears, however, modern Chinese -
Mandarin or Putonghua - sounds very, well, strange.
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30.04.2008
A teaching team from UCC's Department of Economics recently spent an
intensive week in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China teaching students as
part of the joint degree programme with the Henan University of Finance
and Economics (HUFE).
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01.05.2008
The achievements of UCC's History students, undergraduate and
postgraduate, were celebrated at the Department's Annual Prize-giving
Ceremony which took place earlier this week.
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01.05.2008
The Second Annual Postgraduate Conference on Criminal Justice &
Human Rights takes place today (Thursday, May 1st 2008).
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01.05.2008
Physics Postgraduate, Suzanne McEndoo is this year's winner of the Intervarsity ScienceSpeak Competition. PhD candidates from all seven Irish universities gathered at the Royal
Dublin Society (RDS) last evening (April 30th 2008) to compete in this
national public understanding of science event for a top prize of
€1,000.
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02.05.2008
Inmates at Cork Prison recently completed the first short course on
‘Citizenship and the Law’ delivered at the Prison by the Centre for
Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, UCC.
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06.05.2008
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin TD
yesterday (May 5th 2008) announced Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
funding totalling almost €3million for four new research projects.
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06.05.2008
The National Academy for Integration of Research & Teaching &
Learning (NAIRTL) hosted a one-day
Symposium today (Monday, May 12th 2008). Mr Batt O'Keeffe, Minister for Education and Science addressed the delegates (see below).
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07.05.2008
UCC's Chemistry Department is today (Wednesday, May 7th 2008) playing
host to 92 students from 23 schools in the Munster region at the annual
Salters' Festival of Chemistry. Each school is represented by a team of
four 11-13 year olds.
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08.05.2008
Marie Ní Chríodáin is the recipient of Gradam na Gaeilge 2008 valued at
€1,000. A native of Cluain Droichid near Macroom, Co. Cork, Marie is in
third year studying Arts. She is the reachtaire of "An Chuallacht", the
Irish Language Society in UCC.
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08.05.2008
The 9th annual Philip Monahan Memorial Lecture was recently delivered
at UCC by Robert J. Faucher, Deputy US Ambassador to Ireland.
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08.05.2008
Nowadays, numerous varieties of farmhouse cheeses, smoked fish, fresh
and specialist meats including charcuterie, poultry and pork products,
honey, sauces, condiments, confectionery and fresh organic produce are
consumed by the Irish population.
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09.05.2008
A novel technique to genetically manipulate brain cells in mice has
just been published in the leading neuroscience journal Nature
Neuroscience by Dr Paul Young of UCC's Biochemistry Department.
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07.05.2008
"Combating Child Trafficking for Labour and Sexual Exploitation" is the
title of a one-day conference taking place in UCC on Saturday, May 17th
2008, 9.30am-4.30pm, Boole I Lecture Theatre, UCC.
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09.05.2008
A new approach to coastal management in Cork Harbour was unveiled by
Micheál Martin, Minister for Foreign Affairs when he launched a new
Management Strategy for the Harbour in Cobh, Co. Cork today (Friday,
9th May 2008).
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12.05.2008
Mr Zhipeng Ye, a third year PhD student in UCC's Department of
Microelectronic Engineering, has been honoured by the Chinese
Government as the most outstanding Chinese PhD student in Ireland.
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12.05.2008
The Irish Society for Gene & Cell Therapy 2nd annual conference in
association with the British Society for Gene Therapy and the
International Society of Cell & Gene Therapy for Cancer, will be
held at University College Cork on May 15th-16th 2008.
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12.05.2008
Ballincollig Community School (BCS) emerged victorious to become the
winners of the first ever Debating Science Issues (DSI) competition on
Friday last May 9th at the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin.
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13.05.2008
This week (May 15th/16th) sees a high-level official delegation from St
Petersburg, Russia, visit Cork to promote cultural and educational
links between the two cities.
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13.05.2008
UCC's History Department recently hosted its annual Schools'
Essay/Project competition prize-giving ceremony for history students in
the Leaving (Senior) and Junior Certificate cycles.
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13.05.2008
Professor Séamus Davis, 2005 Fritz London Memorial Prizewinner will
deliver the first of a new lecture series at the Tyndall National
Institute on Monday, May 19th 2008.
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14.05.2008
Mr Hilary Haydon, Partner, Hilary Haydon & Company, Chartered
Accountants and Registered Auditors, Incorporating Niall Keane &
Company recently announced the firm's support of UCC's School of
Pharmacy.
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14.05.2008
Researchers from the Cork Cancer Research Centre (CCRC) have announced
the results of study into local gene therapy, targeting tumour growth
at a molecular level.
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14.05.2008
Dr Ron Pinhasi, Department of Archaeology, UCC has recently been
awarded funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to conduct
research on the evolutionary history of Neanderthals in the southern
and northern Caucasus.
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14.05.2008
The first Annual Report of the National Academy for the Integration of
Research and Learning (NAIRTL) was formally launched in UCC today
(Wednesday, May 14th 2008).
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15.05.2008
Aspects of mothering and motherhood will be the topics for discussion
at a conference taking place at UCC on Saturday, May 24th 2008.
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16.05.2008
Today (Friday, May 16th 2008), Professor William O'Brien of UCC will be
admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). Election to the
Royal Irish Academy is the highest academic honour in Ireland.
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16.05.2008
Representatives of various universities in Chile recently are at present on a two-week visit to UCC.
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19.05.2008
The Academic Councils of the four Universities with undergraduate
medical schools, NUI Galway, TCD, UCC and UCD together with the RCSI
have given their approval for new selection criteria for undergraduate
entry to Medicine which adds a new test dimension to the traditional
Leaving Certificate entry route.
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20.05.2008
“Inventors Grow in Schools” is the title of an initiative aimed at
stimulating interest in engineering for second-level students.
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20.05.2008
UCC's Office of Technology Transfer will host a seminar "Tax Planning
for Intellectual Property" on Thursday, June 5th 2008 in UCC. Pat
Carleton, McAvoy & Associates and Joe McAvoy, McAvoy &
Associates will address the delegates at 5.10pm and 5.40pm respectively.
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21.05.2008
Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin and John Sheehan of UCC's Archaeology Department
have been awarded a substantial grant under the Heritage Council's
Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) Programme.
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22.05.2008
Infection & Immunity and Food & Health will be the focus for
discussion at this year's 2nd College of Medicine & Health Joint
UCC/Cork University Teaching Hospitals Health Research Day which takes
place on Friday, June 6th 2008 in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex,
University College Cork.
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23.05.2008
PhD students of arts, humanities and social science disciplines are
invited to a Presentation on Thursday next, May 29th in the Council
Room, UCC.
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26.05.2008
Fiona Kearney, Director of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, was recently
selected for two international honours: a Salzburg Global Seminar
Fellowship and as a member of the Getty MLI 2008.
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26.05.2008
Eamon Lenihan, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, UCC has been conferred with the title Professor Honoris Causa by Professor Jan
Hron, Rector, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague. The ceremony took place on May 19th
2008.
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27.05.2008
Dr John F. Cryan, Senior Lecturer in School of Pharmacy, UCC and
Principal Investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC), has
recently been awarded key research funding under the European
Commission's Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Health initiative.
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29.05.2008
Belinda Houghton, a Physiology Department PhD student attached to Professor
Edward Johns’ laboratory, Biological Sciences Institute, UCC has
received a Recognition Award from the American Physiological Society
Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section as the top Graduate Student
at this year’s Experimental Biology Meeting.
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29.05.2008
Five leading figures in the world of education, philanthropy, health
and human rights, will be honoured by the National University of
Ireland during a ceremony to confer honorary doctorates at University
College Cork on Friday, June 6th 2008.
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30.05.2008
Ken Reynolds, a PhD student in the Tyndall National Institute, has been
chosen by industry experts as the best Technology Commercialisation
project on the HEA Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) Commercialisation
training course for PhD students.
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30.05.2008
UCC's Centre for Adult Continuing Education (CACE) has launched its
Adult Education Brochure. The launch, by Kathleen Lynch, TD took place
on May 29th 2008.
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30.05.2008
The First Adjunct Professor for University College Cork (UCC) and Cork
Institute of Technology (CIT), Dr Kevin James, was celebrated on
Thursday, May 29th 2008 at a reception held in his honour by the
President of UCC, Dr Michael Murphy.
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03.06.2008
UCC's Student Health Service hosted the Irish Student Health
Association (ISHA) conference in March 2008. As part of the conference
Transition Year and Leaving Certificate cycle pupils from six secondary
schools in the Cork area were invited to participate in an art
competition.
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05.06.2008
Dr Geraldine Boylan, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School
of Medicine, Dr Liam Marnane and Dr Gordon Lightbody, Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, have recently received over €1.3
million in research grants from national and international agencies for
newborn brain research.
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06.06.2008
Congratulations to the UCC Staff Choir who came second recently in the
Association of Irish Musical Societies competitive Choral Festival in
New Ross, Wexford where they took part in the church music section and
the chamber choir section.
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06.06.2008
Five leading figures in the world of education, philanthropy, health and human rights, were today (June 6th 2008) honoured by the National University of Ireland during a ceremony to confer honorary doctorates at University College Cork.
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09.06.2008
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - a chronic debilitating disease - affects 10-15% of the Irish population.
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10.06.2008
A group of Polish students and academics from a Gdansk Business
College recently attended the 15th annual residential Credit Union
Summer School hosted by UCC's Centre for Co-operative Studies.
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10.06.2008
The re-professionalisation of Irish pharmacy will mean a dramatic
change in the culture across the sector, according to Professor of
Pharmacy Law and Ethics Joy Wingfield from Nottingham University.
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16.06.2008
On Wednesday, June 18th, the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, will host a research seminar examining the recent US Supreme Court decisions on the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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11.06.2008
Donnchadh O'hAodha, General Manager of UCC's Student Centre becomes the
first ever recipient outside the US to win a Butts Whiting Award.
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11.06.2008
Over 132 graduates and friends from the class of 1958 attended their Golden Jubilee Reunion at UCC on Monday, June 9th.
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11.06.2008
This school year the Glucksman worked with five Cork-based schools on a
major visual education project which focused on visual learning and
critical thinking.
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12.06.2008
Dr Anne Looney, CEO of the National Council for Curriculum and
Assessment (NCCA) recently visited UCC's Department of Computer Science
to meet this year's Munster Programming Training (MPT) students.
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12.06.2008
The President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching and the Awards for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching & Learning 2007-2008 were presented by Dr Michael Murphy, President, UCC along with the Deputy Lord Mayor, Mr Terry Shannon on Tuesday, June 10th 2008.
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13.06.2008
Two student projects from MBS in Business Information Systems (BIS) from UCC have won the first and second awards for post graduate students at this year’s Enterprise Ireland’s 2008 Student Awards.
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13.06.2008
The Hon. Mr justice Paul Carney delivered his third lecture as Adjunct Professor of the Law Faculty UCC on the Role of the Victim in the Irish Criminal Process, on Tuesday 10 June.
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17.06.2008
The English Department, in association with Triskel Arts, will host the 10th International Conference on the Short Story In English this week, June 19 – 21.
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19.06.2008
Some 596 graduates, mainly in Medicine & Health, will be conferred
during this year’s UCC’s annual summer conferrings which began today,
Thursday, June 19th 2008.
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20.06.2008
The Maryborough House Hotel provides the venue on June 18th and 19th for the last event in the Discover Primary Science Awards roadshow which has appeared at 20 different venues in the last 2 weeks, including Dublin, Navan, Athlone, Sligo, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.
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25.06.2008
UCC yesterday (Tuesday, June 24th 2008) hosted a visit by a top group
of US delegates including the Lieutenant Governor of the State of
Illinois, Pat Quinn. The group are on a three-day the visit to Cork for
a business networking event.
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25.06.2008
On Friday, June 27th 2008, UCC's Centre for Criminal Justice and Human
Rights (CCJHR) will host a one day conference on Reforming Laws on
Sexual Violence: International Perspectives.
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26.06.2008
The Microelectronic Industry Design Association (MIDAS) recently
announced Donal Cronin as the recipient of their best published paper
award for 2007/2008 in the field of integrated circuit design.
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26.06.2008
UCC Campus Company, Alimentary Health Ltd, has generated its first royalty payment for University College Cork (UCC).
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01.07.2008
Professor Dmitri B. Papkovsky, Biochemistry Department, UCC, has
received a Principal Investigator award from Science Foundation Ireland
totalling €1.2 million.
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01.07.2008
The third UCC Summer Academy took place on campus last week (June 23rd
-27th 2008) with 95 Transition and Fifth Year students from Munster,
Dublin, Wexford, Kilkenny and Offaly taking part.
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26.06.2008
What happens when books become part of an artwork? And what does that tell us about the nature of books?
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27.06.2008
Tyndall PhD student, Iris Choi, is among three Irish researchers who
will embark on a voyage of discovery to Lindau, Germany where they will
come face to face with their scientific heroes for the first time.
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02.07.2008
The preliminary figures from the annual first destinations of UCC's
2007 Graduates' Survey indicates that over 92% of UCC undergraduates
entered employment or further study on completion of their degree.
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02.07.2008
Climate change is one of the major global concerns in the 21st Century,
and in particular energy use in transport, is one of the major
producers of greenhouse gas (GHG).
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03.07.2008
The UCC Summer School of Greek and Latin, established in 1999,
commenced on Monday, June 30th. Organised by UCC's Classics
Department, the course is highly intensive, offering nearly two years
of instruction over an 8-week period.
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09.07.2008
Iris Choi, Tyndall National Institute Researcher, had the honour of being selected to interview Professor John Hall at the 58th Meeting of Nobel
Laureates which took place last week (June 28th-July 4th) in Lindau,
Germany.
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03.07.2008
"Stories from Rotations: Luck, Fear and Mystery" is the title of a
lecture to be delivered by Professor Oliver M. O'Reilly on Wednesday,
July 16th.
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11.07.2008
Over 100 speakers and delegates from all over the world, including
well-established academics as well as younger scholars, have assembled
at UCC this week for the 5th Celtic Conference in Classics.
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11.07.2008
The rapidly rising costs for food, animal feed and energy have taken
the world by surprise. These price increases are a cause for alarm
bells to start ringing for politicians, farmers and consumers in all
countries.
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11.07.2008
Almost 100 staff members and students spanning nine institutions and 19
disciplines gathered in Sligo last month for the inaugural Irish Social
Sciences Platform (ISSP) Summer School.
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11.07.2008
Two Cork-based charities will benefit from this year's
highly-anticipated charity concert, A Summer's Evening on the Quad, to
be held in the magical setting of UCC's Main Quadrangle on Friday next,
July 18th 2008.
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14.07.2008
The Faculty of Law, in co-operation with Franklin Pierce Law Centre in
New Hampshire, are hosting the fourth annual e-Law Summer Institute
(eLSI) from July 7th to July 25th 2008.
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14.07.2008
Rathnait Long, a second year PhD student in the Tyndall National
Institute, University College Cork has been awarded the Fulbright -
Enterprise Ireland Award in Science, Technology and Innovation.
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14.07.2008
Over 70 delegates from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia
are expected at the Sixth International Journal of Clinical Legal
Education Conference which opens today (Monday, July 14th 2008) at UCC.
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15.07.2008
UCC has secured over €7 million in funding to upgrade 28 of its science laboratories.
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16.07.2008
In a major survey of international students studying at University
College Cork (UCC) international students have reported very high
levels of satisfaction with teaching and learning facilities, support
services and the quality of campus life.
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16.07.2008
UCC Researcher, Dr Paul Cotter has been awarded the 2008 SfAM (Society
for Applied Microbiology) WH Pierce Prize in recognition of work on
potential new therapies against multi-drug resistant pathogens.
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16.07.2008
UCC recently hosted the first National Specialist Registrar Advanced
Training Symposium in Cardiology addressing the fields of cardiac
hemodynamics and adult congenital heart disease.
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18.07.2008
UCC is set to host the largest non-sporting student event in the world
when the 29th World Universities Debating Championships take place at
the end of this year.
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18.07.2008
Mr Owen Curtin, Managing Director Healthcare 21 Limited recently
announced their support of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
at University College Cork (UCC) by naming the main lecture room within
the Department.
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23.07.2008
An initiative for the unemployed to obtain a third level qualification
in Information Technology (IT) is now available with the commencement
in September 2008 of the next cycle of the two-year Diploma in Applied
Business Computing.
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24.07.2008
UCC's Professor Gerald Fitzgerald is to head the newly-established
National Functional Foods Research Centre (NFFRC) which will pioneer
research into "special ingredients" of milk.
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29.07.2008
University College Cork (UCC) yesterday (Monday, July 28th 2008)
honoured the outstanding sporting achievements of its graduates over
the last twelve months at a Photocall and Reception at UCC.
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29.07.2008
The National Academy for Integrating Research & Teaching &
Learning (NAIRTL) has awarded its 2008 grants for research activities
and projects which will advance the aims and objectives of NAIRTL.
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31.07.2008
With increased demand for skilled Environmental Scientists in areas
such as Industry, Education and Management, UCC is pleased to announce
the introduction of a new Part-time BSc Environmental Management
Honours Degree programme.
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06.08.2008
Mr Michael Buckley, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Allied Irish Bank, recently presented awards to the winners of the Stock-Trak portfolio management competition as part of the MSc Financial Economics Programme in the Department of Economics.
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06.08.2008
Professor Helen Whelton, Oral Health Services Research Centre, UCC has received an international award from The European Organisation for Caries Research (ORCA) in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of dental caries research.
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29.07.2008
Oil prices have now reached almost $150 a barrel and could be set to go
as high as $250 per barrel, if predictions by the Russian energy
company Gazprom are borne out.
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12.08.2008
University College Cork (UCC) will host Orientation 2008 for First Year Students and new entrants from 8-21 September 2008. The Orientation Programme which coincides with Registration prepares incoming students for their First Year at UCC.
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14.08.2008
Irish scientists are coordinating a major seabed drilling expedition funded through the European Science Foundation (ESF) to collect 70m long continuous records through cold-water coral reefs offshore Ireland.
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15.08.2008
University College Cork (UCC) has announced the introduction of a new masters degree - The MA Learning and Development Consultancy. The degree is a taught programme over a two year period on a part-time basis commencing in October 2008.
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15.08.2008
How much of our behaviour is influenced by our genes? This is one of the questions to be addressed at an International Conference on Behavioural Genetics and NeuroPsychiatric Disorders taking place at University College Cork (UCC) from August 25th-27th next.
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20.08.2008
For the first time, next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have been turned on typhoid fever - a disease that kills 600,000 people each year.
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21.08.2008
UCC Conference Centre is delighted to announce the launch of its online service which will greatly assist conference organisers in the organisation of seminars, events and conferences at UCC.
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21.08.2008
Family Caring will be the focus for discussion at a conference taking place at UCC on Thursday, September 4th next.
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21.08.2008
As a new academic year is about to begin at University College Cork, a number of students from the university are commencing a study abroad period at a range of universities and colleges in the United States of America and Canada.
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26.08.2008
The ABIC conference which opened at UCC last weekend, reflects Ireland’s National Strategy for Science, Technology & Innovation (SSTI) (2006-2013) whose aim is to use biotechnologies to facilitate innovations across the Irish agri-food sector, according to UCC’s Dr Charles Spillane, local organiser of the conference.
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29.08.2008
The Chinese Ambassador to Ireland, Mr Liu Biwei, visited UCC on Thursday, September 28th to meet the President of UCC, and to visit the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies, the UCC Confucius Institute and the International Education Office of UCC.
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01.09.2008
A new PhD GREP (Social Science) which begins this October, is a four year (full time) taught structured postgraduate academic degree aimed at graduates of sociology, social policy, applied social studies, government, politics, anthropology or other cognate disciplines, who wish to pursue research in the general areas of globalisation, civil society, the state, policy analysis, active citizenship, culture and associated issues.
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02.09.2008
A new initiative aimed at improving food security in Africa, which will combine the strengths of UCC and the Institute of International Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria (IITA), was launched today (Tuesday, September 2nd 2008) by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Micheál Martin at UCC.
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03.09.2008
Plans for the 29th World Debating Championships, to be hosted by UCC, are well underway. To date, almost 150 institutions from over 40 countries are registered to attend the Championships which will run from December 27th 2008 to January 4th 2009.
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03.09.2008
On Friday last, August 29th 2008, UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy officially welcomed the first class of students to the new Graduate Entry to Medicine (GEM) course at UCC.
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04.09.2008
UCC's Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences with the Faculty of Food Science and Technology hosts the 38th Annual Research Conference on Food, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences today (Thursday, September 4th 2008).
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04.09.2008
UCC is hosting for the first time an Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) course in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.
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04.09.2008
The manner in which forensic and investigative psychology can aid in law enforcement will be the focus for discussion at an international conference to be held at University College Cork (UCC) on September 4th and 5th, 2008.
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05.09.2008
Twenty international students, from Ireland, Poland, Canada and Malaysia have just written their final reports, and given final presentations on their results - the culmination of 12 weeks of research on topics relating to the interactions between microbes and their host.
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08.09.2008
Over 500 students graduated today (September 8th 2008) on the first day of UCC's week-long Autumn Conferring Ceremonies. Among the undergraduate and postgraduate students who graduated were
406 from the College of Business & Law followed by 111 from the
College of Science, Engineering & Food Science.
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09.09.2008
UCC's Computer Science Department recently hosted Whizzkids Summercamps. The summercamps are for boys and girls aged 9+ and are designed to maximise exposure to the world of multimedia technology.
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09.09.2008
Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Jimmy Devins was recently on hand to open a Research Information Systems Conference in Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
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09.09.2008
Conferring ceremonies continued today (September 9th 2008) at University College Cork with 471 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Business & Law, the College of Science, Engineering & Food Science and the College of Medicine & Health.
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10.09.2008
ELDERMET is a landmark project based at University College Cork (UCC), Cork area hospitals and Teagasc, Fermoy. It aims to provide answers to questions surrounding the role of gut bacteria in health.
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10.09.2008
Conferring ceremonies continued today (September 10th 2008) at University College Cork with 511 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Science, Engineering & Food Science and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences.
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11.09.2008
Diabetes is a major health problem affecting the general population; with type 2 Diabetes accounting for approximately 80-90% of all cases.
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11.09.2008
Conferring ceremonies continued today (September 11th 2008) at University College Cork with 517 undergraduate students graduating from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences.
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11.09.2008
University College Cork (UCC) is honoured to host The International Energy Agency (IEA) at a Symposium on Tuesday next, September 16th in G19, Kane Building, UCC.
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12.09.2008
Conferring ceremonies concluded today (September 12th 2008) at University College Cork with 412 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences.
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16.09.2008
This year the National Academy for the Integration of Research & Teaching & Learning (NAIRTL) introduced a programme of awards honouring exemplary teachers who are also innovative researchers in higher education in Ireland.
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16.09.2008
On Thursday, September 18th 2008, the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR), UCC and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties will host an evening seminar on "Judicial Diversity: Strategies for Change".
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16.09.2008
To kick-start Heritage Week in West Cork last month, UCC scientists from the Department of Zoology, Ecology and Plant Science (ZEPS) put on a demonstration of Marine Life from the Lough Hyne Marine Reserve near Skibbereen.
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16.09.2008
This year, for the first time, UCC will host a Freshers' Fest from Friday September 19th to Sunday, September 21st.
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18.09.2008
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery will mark Cork's first Culture Night with a dazzling programme of free entertainment on Friday 19th September, 8-11pm.
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18.09.2008
Researchers, students, and designers will gather in UCC this weekend (September 19th/20th) for the second Irish Human-Computer Interaction Conference (I-HCI).
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18.09.2008
Twelve BA Students of Chinese Studies began their one-year study in Shanghai University and South China Normal University in China in September. The group represents the first cohort of undergraduate students from UCC's Irish Institute of Chinese Studies.
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18.09.2008
Intercultural awareness and understanding is a necessary, but insufficient requirement for inclusive citizenship in Ireland according to Professor Alan Smith of the University of Ulster.
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19.09.2008
UCC's Language Centre (English as a Foreign Language) EFL was recently awarded the prize for the Best Commercial Stand at the Adult Education and Learning Exhibition 2008.
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20.09.2008
A new postgraduate programme for senior house officers in obstetrics and gynaecology has started at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork.
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22.09.2008
UCC hosted Primary Science camps for children between 8 and 12 years of age in July 2008.
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22.09.2008
UCC microbiologists have unearthed important clues on how the food-poisoning bacteria Listeria monocytogenes causes disease.
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22.09.2008
The first ever quantum dot in Ireland designed to lead to faster broadband speeds, has been "grown" by researchers at UCC's Tyndall National Institute and the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).
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23.09.2008
UCC's School of Pharmacy hosts a three-day seminar for its fourth year students from September 22nd-24th 2008. The Seminar is sponsored by United Drug.
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24.09.2008
Tyndall National Institute at UCC has announced (September 23rd 2008), at the first ever International Power Supply on Chip Workshop, PwrSoc’ 08, in Cork, that their silicon chip technology will significantly increase mobile phone battery lifetime.
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24.09.2008
The Presidents of the seven Universities today (September 24th 2008) called on the Minister for Education and Science, Mr Batt O’Keeffe to commit to a new “bold and imaginative” approach to the funding of Irish Higher Education.
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26.09.2008
With the continuing turmoil in the financial markets set against the backdrop of competitiveness challenges and greater globalisation, Irish managers are finding that preparing for leadership is becoming more difficult in our complex, modern business life.
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26.09.2008
The School of Medicine and School of Clinical Therapies, UCC, is pleased to host a one-day Symposium on Friday, October 3rd 2008, 8.30am-3.00pm, G06, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.
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30.09.2008
UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy and Professor Roger Whatmore, CEO, Tyndall National Institute, welcomed a delegation from Taiwan to UCC on Monday, September 29th 2008.
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29.09.2008
The prestigious European Award for Languages has been awarded to the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies (IICS) at UCC. The Institute was selected as a winner for 2008 for its excellence, dedication and innovation in Chinese language teaching and learning in Irish Higher Education.
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01.10.2008
Land abandonment is a big threat to the ecology of upland areas according to a research group in UCC who have been examining links between upland biodiversity, farming practices and the socio-economic driving forces behind land use change, on the Iveragh Peninsula, Kerry.
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23.09.2008
The Department of History, University College Cork, in association with The Irish Examiner, is pleased to announce that a two-day conference on the life and political and sporting career of Jack Lynch is scheduled to take place in University College Cork on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th October 2008.
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24.09.2008
Cancer is a major health issue world-wide, and cancer research is a high priority in modern science. UCC has a large interdisciplinary research cluster in cancer biology that includes investigators from the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science and the College of Medicine and Health.
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02.10.2008
UCC launched a new financial system 'Agresso' on October 1st 2008. One of the more noticeable changes is that all staff expenses can now be entered on Agresso via the UCC Intranet. Roll out of web-based procurement will follow early next year.
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29.09.2008
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin and Viscount Etienne Davignon, Belgian Minister of State and former Vice-President of the European Commission will be among the guest speakers at a European Symposium taking place at UCC on Wednesday, October 8th 2008.
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02.10.2008
Three well known Cork doctors who like to indulge a passion for painting in their spare time, will exhibit their work at the Jennings Gallery, University College Cork, on October 8th next at 6pm.
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03.10.2008
UCC's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has won three awards at the Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year Awards. The award ceremony took place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on Friday, September 26th 2008.
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07.10.2008
Have you ever found a rock or mineral on the local beach, in your garden, or in your backyard, and wondered what it is, and what it can tell you about the Earth’s history?
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06.10.2008
UCC's Open Day for Schools will take place on Saturday next, October 11th 2008 from 10am to 3.30pm.
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08.10.2008
The UCC campus is alive with activity this Sunday, October 12th 2008 as the university presents its very first STUDENT SUNDAY, a day packed with a whole range of events.
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07.10.2008
Nowadays, numerous varieties of farmhouse cheeses, smoked fish, fresh and specialist meats including charcuterie, poultry and pork products, honey, sauces, condiments, confectionery and fresh organic produce are consumed by the Irish population.
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08.10.2008
Ireland maintains its overall ranking of 22nd
in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI).
The GCI encompasses drivers of productivity across twelve
‘competitiveness pillars’ the most problematic of which for Ireland remains Basic Requirements driven by a declining
infrastructure ranking at 53 (from 49 last year). Ranking in relation to
Macro-economic stability also dropped significantly to 47, 16 lower than the
2007 comparison.
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09.10.2008
This weekend (October 10-11th 2008) sees the tenth annual conference of the Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande taking place for the first time in UCC. In the ten years of its existence, the ADEFFI has established itself as a vital element in a flourishing research and postgraduate scene in French studies in all parts of the island.
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09.10.2008
UCC has advanced by 60 places in the Times Higher Education/QS World University Rankings to 226th amongst the world's top universities. This compares to a ranking of 286th place in the 2007 table.
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10.10.2008
The Irish Universities had an extensive exchange of views with the
Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Science on October 9th
2008.
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14.10.2008
UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy, who is currently on a visit to China has been awarded an Honorary Professorship by Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU).
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15.10.2008
An EU-funded project on research into how greater performance control can be achieved in sensor networks for use in everything from patient monitoring to oil refinery control, is being led by Professor Cormac Sreenan of UCC's Computer Science Department.
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15.10.2008
Experts from around the globe will gather at UCC next weekend (October 17th-18th 2008) for the Biennial Conference of the Irish Forum for Global Health which will be attended by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Micheál Martin.
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16.10.2008
UCC is hosting a Public Lecture Series as part of its new Cohort PhD programme in Education.
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16.10.2008
The Musgrave Group prize in accounting has been awarded to a group of four students from the BSc Accounting class 2007-2008. The winning group comprised Deirdre Cronin, Ellen Finn, Claire Flynn and Eimear Higgins. The prize was awarded after all the finalists in the competition made presentations at the Headquarters of the Musgrave Group in Cork.
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16.10.2008
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17.10.2008
The Electrical Power will be shut down to the entire Main Campus buildings during the following times over the October Bank Holiday Weekend: 1830hrs Friday, October 24th until 0600hrs Tuesday, October 28th 2008.
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20.10.2008
University College Cork (UCC), through its Institute of Chinese Studies, co-hosted a meeting of Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) in Beijing on October 17th-18th 2008.
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20.10.2008
The UCC Autumn Recruitment Fair takes place on October 22nd/23rd 2008 in the Multifunctional Hall, UCC.
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21.10.2008
Can laughter make us healthier? Dr Bill Fry thinks so and he is a psychiatrist and professor emeritus of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr Fry's speciality is humour and he a pioneer in the field and the world's leading authority on laughter and health.
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23.10.2008
A new five-year research agreement on conducting food policy research, teaching and training activities in relation to developing countries was launched in UCC recently.
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23.10.2008
The first link in the discipline of law between Ireland and China has been formalised with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UCC's Faculty of Law and the Chinese University, East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL).
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24.10.2008
The Confucius Institute was formally launched at Shanghai University earlier this week in the presence of Mr Batt O'Keeffe, Minister for Education and Science and Dr Michael Murphy, President, UCC.
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24.10.2008
Dr Jimmy Devins TD, Minister for Science Technology and Innovation, visiting Tyndall National Institute on October 23rd 2008 announced that Tyndall at University College Cork, one of Ireland's leading research facilities, has partnered with BT to conduct world-leading research and development (R&D) into advanced optical networks.
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24.10.2008
Professor Gerry O'Sullivan, immediate Past President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Director of the Cork Cancer Research Centre, was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) at the 94th American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress in San Francisco.
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28.10.2008
Poet, Derek Mahon, one of the most acclaimed poets writing in English today, will give a Public Reading at UCC on Wednesday, October 29th at 5pm in Boole II Lecture Theatre.
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28.10.2008
The Governing Body of University College Cork has today (Tuesday, October 28th 2008) noted the recommendation of the University's Academic Council that any embryonic stem cell research at UCC should be carried out only under strict guidelines drawn up by the University Research Ethics Board (UREB).
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29.10.2008
The first week-end of November will see the Lewis Glucksman Gallery host its first ever Craft Fair. Visitors to the gallery will have the opportunity to view and purchase the unique craftwork of some of Ireland's leading craftsmakers.
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30.10.2008
Dr Sabin Tabirca of UCC's Computer Science Department was recently presented with the IT in Education award at the second Leaders Awards Ceremony of IT@Cork. Dr Tabirca received the award for his outstanding contribution to IT Education.
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31.10.2008
Several Cork physicians, surgeons and scientists will speak at the annual Open Day of the Irish Society of Colitis and Crohn's Disease which takes place tomorrow Saturday, November 1st 2008 from 2-4pm at Cork University Hospital (Main Lecture Theatre).
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31.10.2008
Over 120 delegates world-wide including the USA and Japan are expected at UCC next week (November 6th and 7th 2008) when the University hosts the first international symposium for young scientists and technologists in malting, brewing and distilling.
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31.10.2008
Pfizer and University College Cork (UCC) have today (Friday, October 31st 2008) announced a joint collaboration involving the installation of a state-of-the-art 400MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer in UCC's Analytical and Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF).
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03.11.2008
Science Week is a national event that aims to make science, technology and engineering more interesting and accessible to all. Science Week 2008 runs from November 9th-16th with the theme “Science - Shaping Our World”.
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04.11.2008
Opportunities for Earth Observation in Ireland will be the focus for discussion at the Second Irish Earth Observation Symposium to be held on November 6th-7th next. The Symposium, organised by UCC, will take place at the National Maritime College of Ireland.
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04.11.2008
The health of Ireland’s ageing population and how it might be improved by a better diet, will be the subject of a Public Forum at UCC on Tuesday, November 11th next.
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04.11.2008
Professor Samantha Power and Professor Cass Sunstein, Adjunct Professors of Law at UCC will deliver their Inaugural Lecture at the University on Thursday next, November 6th 2008 at 5.30pm, Devere Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn/Student Centre. Chairperson for the event will be Mr Dermot Gleeson.
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05.11.2008
The tenth Annual Seminar jointly organised by the Combined Departments of Irish, UCC, and the Irish Texts Society, will take place on Saturday next, November 8th 2008.
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05.11.2008
The Graduate School in UCC’s College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSSS) will host its first Postgraduate Conference this Saturday, November 8th 2008.
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06.11.2008
Leading educationalists from Canada and the UK are expected at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) for a major two-day conference designed to inform debate on the future of higher education in Ireland and beyond.
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07.11.2008
The Irish-African Partnership for Research and Capacity Building (IAPRCB) is a three year pilot project bringing together all nine universities on the island of Ireland and four universities in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.
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07.11.2008
Senior academics from Asia and Europe together with Irish government figures, a number of ambassadors and business people, will gather in Cork on November 14th next for the second annual conference of the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies (IICS) at UCC.
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10.11.2008
Professor Eamonn Quigley, Professor of Medicine and Human Physiology, UCC becomes the first non-US President of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). The American College represents 10,000 physicians from 75 countries.
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10.11.2008
All residents at adult addiction treatment centres in Ireland should undergo an oral cancer screening examination on admission to the centre according to Dr Eleanor O’Sullivan, Cork University Dental School and Hospital in her report on Oral Cancer Screening Study of High Risk Individuals.
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12.11.2008
Sister Thérèse Antone, President, Salve Regina University paid a courtesy visit to UCC earlier this week.
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12.11.2008
Two new exhibitions will open at the Glucksman Gallery tomorrow Thursday (November 13th 2008) at 5pm. Both exhibitions continue until March 1st 2009. Curated by Professor Dermot Keogh and Ruth Osborne, An Eye for an Eye
will illustrate the often contradictory ways in which visual images and
artefacts represented the conflict in Ireland throughout the 20th
century.
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13.11.2008
Discovery 2008, Cork’s Annual Interactive Science Exhibition, takes place this year from Sunday, November 16th to Wednesday, November 19th in the City Hall (following on from Science Week).
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17.11.2008
The fifth all-Ireland ornithological research conference was held at UCC on November 15th-16th hosted by the Department of Zoology, Ecology and Plant Science (ZEPS).
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17.11.2008
UCC Sports Stars were honoured this evening (Monday, November 17th 2008) when almost 100 Sports Scholarships were presented to students at the university. This year, 22 sports were recognised which included Cycling, Volleyball and Triathlon for the first time.
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18.11.2008
A new network to strengthen links with Asia was launched at UCC on Thursday last (November 13th 2008).
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18.11.2008
UCC students were recently honoured by the NUI at a presentation of awards by Dr Garret FitzGerald, Chancellor, NUI. Dr FitzGerald extended congratulations to scholars, graduates and students who qualified for awards this year.
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19.11.2008
UCC Lecturer, Dr John O’Donoghue, has won the MIT 2008 Ballou/Pazer DQ/IQ Research Award. The Ballou/Pazer DQ/IQ award recognises a PhD dissertation that demonstrates a significant contribution to the field of Information Quality (IQ).
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20.11.2008
This year’s guest lecturer for the Annual Frank O’Connor Lecture Series at UCC is Professor Michael Steinman of Nassau Community College, New York who will lecture on Frank O’Connor: The Majesty of Love on Tuesday, November 25th in Boole Lecture Theatre 2 at 5 pm.
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21.11.2008
Europeana, Europe’s multimedia online library was officially launched by the European Union on November 20th 2008.
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21.11.2008
University College Cork (UCC) will launch the UCC Research Highlights Lecture Series and Associated Exhibition on Monday next, November 24th 2008 at UCC. Mr Batt O’Keeffe TD, Minister for Education and Science will open the event at 12.15pm in the Aula Maxima, UCC.
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25.11.2008
Dermot McCarthy, Secretary General to the Government, will deliver the 10th Annual Philip Monahan Memorial Lecture at UCC on Friday next, November 28th. Titled “Reforming the Public Sector”, the lecture takes place at 6.30pm in Boole III Lecture Theatre.
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25.11.2008
Seán McSweeney, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UCC has won a best student paper prize at the 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Ultrasonics Symposium held in Beijing.
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25.11.2008
Two out of three Irish adults are overweight and one in four is obese according to a new report that provides a detailed analysis of the nutritional status and dietary habits of the Irish population.
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25.11.2008
Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin of the Archaeology Department, UCC, has co-authored a major study of the early monastery of Inishmurray, Co Sligo with NRA archaeologist Jerry O’Sullivan.
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26.11.2008
This year (2008) sees the seventieth anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1938. On November 28th and 29th a range of experts on the political, military, constitutional, economic, and foreign policy will assess the 1938 Agreement and its legacy at a conference in UCC.
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26.01.2016
UCC’s Law Society will host its 8th Annual Law Conference on Thursday, November 27th 2008. Titled “The Impact of European Union law in Ireland”, the conference is timely in light of the recent referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and the ongoing debate on Ireland’s relationship with the European Union.
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27.11.2008
Outstanding achievers in the fields of arts, business, sports and medicine are to be honoured by UCC at the 2008 Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony, sponsored by Henry Ford & Son, Limited, which takes place this evening (Thursday, November 27th 2008) at UCC.
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28.11.2008
An international team of scientists, including Dr Anne Moore of the UCC School of Pharmacy, reported a major breakthrough in their attempts to create a malaria vaccine in the journal Nature Medicine.
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28.11.2008
Micheál Martin, TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs will launch the Cork Worlds2009 World University Debating Championship on Monday next, December 1st 2008.
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01.12.2008
UCC's Disability Support Service, in association with AHEAD (Association for Higher Education Access & Disability) & DAWN (Disability Advisors' Working Network), will host a one-day event for students with a disability or specific learning difficulty considering Higher Education Options in Ireland.
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02.12.2008
Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) School of Medicine have teamed up with Intrade, a Dublin-based technology firm, to develop an innovative forecasting method.
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04.12.2008
UCC continues its programme of Student Sundays with a special event the “Spirit of Christmas” on Sunday next, December 7th.
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09.12.2008
Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan TD announced on Monday, December 8th 2008 that Synopsys is to expand its R&D operations at its Blanchardstown facility by adding up to 50 new high-level software and electronic engineering positions over four years, with the support of Government through IDA Ireland.
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10.12.2008
“University College Cork continues to attract students of the highest calibre” said UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy when he presented parchments to 78 Entrance Scholarship recipients at a special awards ceremony at the University on Tuesday, December 9th 2008.
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10.12.2008
Winter conferring ceremonies commenced today (December 10th 2008) at UCC with 460 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences.
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11.12.2008
Winter conferring ceremonies continued today (December 11th 2008) at UCC with 444 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Business & Law and the College of Science, Engineering & Food Science.
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12.12.2008
Winter conferring ceremonies concluded today (December 12th 2008) at UCC with 84 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Medicine & Health.
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12.12.2008
The Centre of Adult Continuing Education, UCC will present awards to the 1000 Adult Learners who have successfully completed Adult Continuing Education Certificates and Diplomas at an award ceremony which will take place on Saturday, 13th and Sunday 14th December, 2008 at UCC.
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16.12.2008
This year, 535 students registered with Disability Support Services (DSS) in UCC.
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17.12.2008
UCC Medical student, Aoife McSweeney has won the 2008 Health Research Board (HRB) Watts medal. Aoife won with a presentation on her research for treating pre-eclampsia, a condition which affects 100,000 expectant mothers worldwide each year.
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17.12.2008
UCC's Confucius Institute was recently represented at the World Congress of the Confucius Institutes in Beijing by Professor Paul Giller, Senior Vice-President Academic, UCC.
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17.12.2008
The National Academy for the Integration of Research & Teaching & Learning (NAIRTL) announced the winners of their Awards for Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education on December 15th 2008.
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18.12.2008
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mr Brendan Smith TD, has welcomed the introduction by University College Cork (UCC) of a new BSc degree course in Food Marketing and Entrepreneurship (CAO code CK502).
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18.12.2008
Fiona Kearney, Director, Glucksman Gallery, UCC has been appointed to the Arts Council. Martin Cullen TD, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism announced new membership to the Council on December 17th 2008.
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18.12.2008
The Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at UCC is one of three world-class research centres to benefit from Science Foundation Ireland funding following the announcement on December 18th 2008 by the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughan TD.
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22.12.2008
The countdown is on to the 29th World Universities Debating Championships, which will kick off on December 27th in UCC.
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23.12.2008
Using bad bugs to do good things is the subject of a new book called "Patho-biotechnology" by Dr Roy Sleator and Professor Colin Hill, Principal Investigators at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC), UCC.
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23.12.2008
The UCC affinity credit card in association with Bank of Ireland is among the most successful affinity cards in the country, generating over one million euro for the UCC Sports Fund since the card was launched almost fifteen years ago.
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23.12.2008
This year (2008) marks the centenary of the establishment of University College Cork (UCC). Queen’s College Cork, the immediate predecessor of University College Cork, opened its doors in 1849 to 117 students.
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