Qualcomm's Angela Baker, VP and Chief Sustainability Officer, and Erica Ciaraldi, Government Affairs Manager and Wireless Reach PM recently visited UCC.

Dr Breffní Lennon, Research Fellow at the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) and School of Engineering and Architecture, is a winner of the UNIC Best Paper Award for his paper on sustainability and citizen energy communities, co-written with Dr Niall Dunphy, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Architecture/ERI.

A Master’s programme created via the University of Post-Industrial Cities in Transition (UNIC) alliance and jointly delivered by eight universities, including University College Cork (UCC) was recently announced as the ‘Best Master’s Programme – Science, Technology and Built Environment’ at the Education Awards 2025. 

On 22 April, AxisBIC presented its annual Entrepreneurship Award to three outstanding undergraduate students from UCC’s School of Computer Science and Information Technology.

Six MSc Human Nutrition and Dietetics students at University College Cork have been awarded full scholarships to cover their tuition fees, thanks to a generous €110,442 donation from the Community Nutrition & Dietetic Service, Cork and Kerry.

This event held in the Aula Maxima on 7 April provided researchers with valuable insights into commercialising their innovations in health, medicine, engineering, and food science. It featured inspiring case studies on commercialisation and offered attendees the opportunity to network with their colleagues. 

Founded in 1954, CERN hosts the largest engineering and physics experiment on the planet, covering >550 acres on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

An international team of scientists from Ireland and Germany has applied for the first time a novel mobile X-ray imaging instrumentation on fossil animals from the Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Frankfurt, Germany.