Home energy usage and road transport emissions are responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse gasses being generated in Cork City, according to important new UCC research commissioned by Cork City Council’s Climate Action Unit.

• Step Up project aims to improve the health, wellbeing and cognitive performance of middle-aged and older people.
• SC-Protein project to develop a system that turns food waste into protein for animal feed.
• Two UCC hosted projects awarded almost €500,000 through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) National Challenge Fund.

• Applications open for 11 new academic positions at UCC and Tyndall National Institute.
• Closing date for applications is 12pm (Irish Standard Time) on Tuesday 5^th December 2023.

• Two UCC projects awarded a combined €2.7m from the European Research Council.
• Dr Hilary Browne to study spore-forming gut bacteria as a tool to target harmful pathogens.
• Dr Dónal Hassett to study the post-war impact that the First World War had on colonial subjects.

• Mathematicians find the speed with which we approach critical levels of climate change is as dangerous to our survival as reaching these critical levels.
• Rate-induced tipping is triggered not by reaching a critical level of climate change, but instead by a critical rate of change, and can occur before that level is reached. 
• Other examples include the surge in demand on the national grid after sporting events.

• Study shows that children who are active outdoors in rural areas with frequent exposure to animals have better regulated immune systems.
• Exposure to different environmental factors during early life is believed to play a crucial role in training the immune system.
• A better understanding of the early life immune system may progress the development of interventions to modulate the immune response to support lifelong health.

• Expert in international migration studies secures €2.5m ERC Advanced Grant.
• The grant will support a global study of international migration and mobility.
• The UCC project highlights the importance of humanities and social sciences research in a rapidly changing world.

• The programme aims to help PhD students and research staff to explore diverse career pathways into a variety of sectors. 

• New study reveals that rare native plant species will go extinct and non-native sika deer will increase across Ireland.
• Invasive species ranked as one of the leading drivers of global biodiversity loss.  

• Parts of the ocean where seabirds are most exposed to plastics have been identified in a major research project involving UCC scientists.