President's Office
With more than 26,000 students, 3,700 staff and 225,000 alumni, University College Cork seeks to secure a bright future through excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. Our strengths are strategically aligned with critical societal issues – from ensuring the health of our communities to safeguarding the environment and securing our future for generations to come. This website provides information about the President's Office, strategic initiatives and contact details.
Vision for UCC
Recent News
19 Feb 2026
2026 Stripe YSTE Winner Visits UCC
UCC recently hosted the winner of the 62nd Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (YSTE). Aoibheann Daly’s winning project, titled GlioScope: Multi-task Deep Learning and Causal AI for Glioma & Glioblastoma Profiling, is an AI-powered diagnostic tool that analyzes MRI brain scans to identify genetic mutations in tumours.
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13 Feb 2026
President John O'Halloran joins Scale Ireland Regional Start-Up Summit
President John O'Halloran was a member of the expert panel on Supporting Student Entrepreneurship and Spin-Outs at Third Level at the Scale Ireland Regional Start-Up Summit 2026. The panel explored ways to strengthen entrepreneurship support within third level education, and highlighted the importance of supporting student entrepreneurs and spin-outs for long term growth of Ireland's innovation ecosystem.
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09 Feb 2026
New publication documents UCC's sustainability journey
An interdisciplinary, campus-wide team has come together to document UCC's journey to becoming the second most sustainable university in the world. This work interrogates the success factors that transformed UCC into a global sustainability leader and has now been published in the Journal of Sustainability Perspectives.
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30 Jan 2026
Ambassador of Pakistan Visits UCC
President John O’Halloran welcomed H.E. Ms. Mariam Madiha Aftab, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Ireland, to UCC on Friday, 30 January 2026.
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President's Office
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East Wing, Main Quadrangle, Western Road , Cork, T12 K8AF