The School of Law at UCC is proud to announce the creation of two new cutting-edge masters programmes, an LLM in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, and and LLM in Marine and Maritime Law. 

As hit TV drama series Vikings returns for a gripping fourth season with Jonathan Rhys Meyers set to join its cast for the fifth, the World-Tree Project will be launched today at UCC, aiming to create the largest online collection about the Vikings.

University College Cork will today (April 25) honour the legacy of its first Professor of Mathematics and the forefather of the Information Age, with the unveiling of the bust of George Boole.

The Russian Bolshevik leader V I Lenin famously declared in relation to the 1916 Rising that “The misfortune of the Irish is that they rose prematurely”.

UCC’s James Upton was last night (April 28) named Student Leader of the Year by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI).

UCC’s MEngSc Information Technology in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (ITinAEC) and MSc Information Systems for Business Performance (ISBP) have both been named Postgraduate Course of the Year, in Engineering and IT, respectively. 

Dr Kevin Cawley, acting head of the Department of Asian Studies and Director of the Irish Institute of Korean Studies, has been awarded US $50,000 from the One Asia Foundation.

Those familiar with the story of Peadar Kearney as author of the Irish anthem could not help regretting that public recognition came so late, according to his grandson Colbert Kearney, Professor Emeritus of English at UCC. 

UCC has launched a new postgraduate qualification aimed at supporting the further education and training needs of people working in the dairy industry. 

An article entitled “Bacteria - the Emotions Factory” describing research at the APC Microbiome Institute in University College Cork has won a media prize for a German health journalist.