Dr Linda Connolly, Director of the Institute for Social Science in the 21^st Century is Director of the Merriman Summer School 2015, the theme of which is Love and Marriage revisited.

Fergus Shanahan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCC & Director of the APC Microbiome Institute has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science at UCD.  

Read on for a press and social media round-up of all the colourful coverage from the UCC Honorary Conferrings 2015, which celebrated Nicholas Fox Weber, Joseph Walsh and Don O'Neill.

The United Nations recognised the extraordinary global impact of the work of George Boole in its resolution creating a World Statistics Day.

Enterprising secondary school students are leaving the classroom behind to embark on a business bootcamp at UCC as part of the Student Enterprise Awards Programme through the Local Enterprise Offices.

For the first time, copies of UCC’s annual alumni magazine will be distributed simultaneously as an insert in the Irish Examiner and Irish Times on Friday, 5 June.

Having won in 2014 for best social media engagement, UCC is again a front runner at the 2015 national Social Media Awards.

The Irish Association for Asian Studies (IAAS) has been formed at a special workshop at the Irish Management Institute in Dublin organised by Dr Kevin Cawley.

Nutri-vive, an innovative functional beverage developed by students, clinched the UCC Food Innovation Prize at the Dragons’ Den-style event last night.

UCC has this week been recognised as one of the leading universities worldwide for scientific research in the  CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015.