Professor Dimitra Psychogiou, a global expert in RF front-end technologies has been appointed to the position of Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture. She will also assume the role of Head of Group for Advanced Radio Frequency (RF) Technologies at the Tyndall National Institute.

The School of Food and Nutritional Sciences is delighted to announce the appointment of two new Adjunct Professors - Dr Jonathan O'Regan, Head of the Nestlé Development Centre Nutrition, Askeaton, Co. Limerick and Dr Mark Fenlon, Head of Food Research at Teagasc Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork and Ashtown, Dublin.

Eleven UCC students were recently presented with scholarships at a virtual awards ceremony as part of the Johnson & Johnson Ireland Women in STEM2D (WiSTEM2D) Award Programme. Now in its fourth year at UCC, the WiSTEM2D programme will provide the scholarship recipients with extensive industry mentoring and leadership training.

Congratulations to Professor Barry O’Sullivan who has been elected to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s (AAAI) prestigious Fellows programme, which recognises individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. He is the first AAAI Fellow from an Irish university.

Congratulations to Robert Troy from CBS Charleville who won two major prizes at this year's BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (BTYSE) for his project "Smart Yard: IoT monitoring of key farm metrics to reduce agricultural emissions". Robert was supported in his research by Dr Emanuel Popovici and the Embedded.Systems Group, Department of Electricial and Electronic Engineering, UCC.

New research from UCC has found that warming seas have caused the giant sunfish to venture north into Irish waters. The discovery comes after almost 50 years of observations off the Cork coast.

The first College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) New Connections Research Day was recently launched by Simon Harris TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The event is part of a number of initiatives devised to encourage interdisciplinary research activity, create time for blue-sky thinking, and ultimately promote the individual and collective research agendas of SEFS academics. 

Congratulations to UCC's School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES), and the School of Chemistry, who have been accredited with an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in the latest round of applications.

The Quercus Talented Students' Programme application process is now open! The closing date is February 3rd, 2022 at 4:30pm. This scholarship can be worth up to €10,500 per year for successful students.

Congratulations to Jim Woulfe, former CEO of Dairygold and UCC Dairy Science graduate, who has been honoured with an Outstanding Contribution to Business Award from Cork Chamber.