Ground-breaking work on preeclampsia, a life threatening complication of late pregnancy, has earned researchers in Cork a major award from the American Heart Association.

Relatives of renowned mathematician George Boole will today (September 4) join a delegation from Cork visiting Lincoln to celebrate the life and legacy of one of the city’s most influential sons.

The next time you visit the supermarket, spare a thought for how food technologists get omega-3 safely into milk, or make vitamins stable to bring health benefits to consumers.

Drug eluting stents have revolutionized coronary artery disease treatment reducing the stent renarrowing rate within six  months after placement which was a limitation of early generation bare metal stents.

The huge impact of George Boole’s work on technology today is explored in a stunning new film commissioned by University College Cork, to be screened on RTÉ One on September 1 at 22:35.

APC, the national centre for excellence in food and medicine research at UCC, announced today (August 28) the creation of 50 additional hi-tech jobs in Cork.  

George Boole inspired the character Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind in Sherlock Holmes, Boole’s biographer Professor Des MacHale will tell an audience at UCC next week. 

UCC alumnus, Dr Fergal Barry of the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT), has been appointed President of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

The Irish Examiner and University College Cork (UCC) will host an online Q&A on Wednesday, 19 August, for students seeking instant answers to their CAO or going-to-college questions.

A Doctor’s Sword continues to edge out the competition. The film, which explores the extraordinary life of UCC graduate Dr Aidan MacCarthy, has received outstanding reviews, with several more cinemas taking it on.