• 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.  

Recruitroo, UCC Start-up of the Year 2022 at the recent UCC Research and Innovation Awards, announced that it has secured a €1 million investment round, led by Delta Partners, with participation from Enterprise Ireland and several notable angel investors. The funding will empower Recruitroo - a platform that solves global labour shortages, to further develop its end-to-end global recruitment and migration platform and expand its presence in the UK and European markets.

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

• Researchers call for clearer messaging to help public and policymakers to better understand the disease of obesity.
• Conflicting understandings of the word ‘obesity’ jeopardise diagnosis and treatment.
• Clinicians are expressing concern at shortages of drugs which have been approved to treat obesity.

• The plan outlines UCC’s actions towards net zero.
• Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath TD, addresses students and staff at the launch.

• UCC scientists confirm crucial characteristic of new superconductor material.
• Superconductor could open the way to functional quantum computers.

• UCC up 11 places to 292 of the 2,963 evaluated institutions in the 20th Edition of the QS World University Rankings. The final published ranking has been limited to the top 1,503 universities.
• UCC ranked 46th in the world for the advancement of sustainability.
• UCC strong performance across the nine indicators used to rank the universities with particular strengths for sustainability and internationalisation.

With sustainability and the cost-of-living crisis at the forefront of peoples’ minds, many are searching for ways to reduce waste while saving money. This applies particularly to UCC’s community of 4,000 international students, of whom 2,000 arrive in Cork each semester for a short-term stay. 

Tyndall National Institute, based at University College Cork, Ireland, has announced the establishment of the Meta Industrial Chair in Semiconductor Technologies underpinning a multi-year research programme.

Dr Waleed Faisal and the ArrayPatch team were announced on Tuesday 20^th June as the winners of the 2023 IDEATE Ireland business competition.