An important paper just published in The International Journal of Agricultural Sustainabilit y identifies the top 100 questions for the future of global agriculture. Written by a multidisciplinary team of 55 agricultural and food experts from 23 countries, Dr Colin Sage of UCC's Department of Geography was the sole contributor from Ireland and was charged with responsibility for one of the 13 themes in the paper.
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The Environmental Research Institute Director, Professor Alan Dobson, is one of the Contributing Authors of the European Science Foundation’s (ESF) recent Position Paper on “Marine Biotechnology: A New Vision and Strategy for Europe”.

UCC Graduates and Students featured prominently in the National University of Ireland (NUI) Awards Ceremony 2010.
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This year’s annual Boole Public Lecture will be delivered by Professor Des MacHale, School of Mathematical Sciences, UCC and author of George Boole, his life and work.
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Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, visited the site in Galway docks earlier this week where the UCC Coordinated EU FP7 Research Project CORES is being assembled before extensive sea trials.

On November 22nd 2010, the Health Service Executive (HSE) published its “Reconfiguration of Acute Hospital Services, Cork and Kerry – A roadmap to develop an integrated university hospital network”.
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UCC’s Computer Science Department continued its highly successful IT Experience Programme for Transition Year students with its latest offering which ran from 22nd to 26th November, 2010.

Naisc taighde nua sa cheimic atmaisféir curtha ar bun idir taighdeoirí i COC agus Ollscoil Chathair Tóiceo (TMU), an tSeapáin.
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The Philippine Ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Ariel Y. Abadilla will deliver a lecture at UCC tomorrow, Wednesday, December 1st 2010.
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UCC recently hosted a study visit by a group of senior staff from the University of Prishtina, Kosovo. The visit was funded by an EC Tempus IV project titled: “Quality Assurance at the University of Prishtina”.
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Dr Robert Ryan and Dr Max Dow of the BIOMERIT Research Centre, Department of Microbiology have received a combined grant of €400,000 from the Wellcome Trust earlier this week.
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Reáchtáladh seimineár a d'eagraigh an Alliance Française in Éirinn i COC ar an 27ú Samhain 2010.

Outstanding achievers in the arts, judiciary, medicine and pharmaceutical sector are to be honoured by UCC at the 2010 Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony which takes place on Friday, December 3rd at the University.
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Tyndall National Institute, UCC is this year’s winner of the ‘Renewable Energy Systems Award’ for its new research building. Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) announced the winner at its seventh annual Sustainable Energy Awards in Dublin recently.  The state-of-the-art semiconductor research facility is heated by energy generated from its data servers, saving 12% on energy costs.
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Due to treacherous weather conditions the Alumni Achievement Awards ceremony, which was to take place this evening, December 3rd, has been postponed.  The awards ceremony will be rescheduled in 2011.


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“Depression: From Psychopathology to Pharmacotherapy” edited by Dr John F. Cryan, Senior Lecturer in School of Pharmacy and Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Principal Investigator in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) along with Professor Brian E. Leonard Emeritus Professor NUI Galway has just been published by Karger Press ISBN: 978-3-8055-9605-3.
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Winter conferring ceremonies commenced today (December 6th 2010) at UCC with over 400 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Business & Law and College of Science, Engineering & Food Science. The Conferring addresses were given by Dr Michael Murphy, President, UCC, Professor David Gwynn Morgan, former Professor of Law, UCC, and Dr Divakar Ramakrishnan, General Manager, Eli Lilly.

Perched aloft on Shandon Steeple, the iconic church tower overlooking Cork City, a harpist will play and a piper will pipe as the sun rises on a day that will herald the beginning of a new austerity regime on budget day, Tuesday 7th December.
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A microscopy image of a neurosphere which was prepared by Louise Collins, Suzanne Crotty and Dr Yvonne Nolan from the Cork Neuroscience Group (CNS) in UCC and submitted to the SFI Image competition 2010 has been selected by the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin to be used as the cover image for their 2010 Christmas card.
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Winter conferring ceremonies continued today (December 7th 2010) at UCC with over 600 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Business & Law, College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences and College of Medicine & Health. The Conferring addresses were given by Mike Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer, Altobridge Limited (attached); Dr Ann Whall, Visiting Professor UCC; Professor Emerita, University of Michigan (USA); Allesse Endowed Chair, Oakland University (USA) (attached) and Professor Willie Molloy, Professor of Clinical Gerontology, UCC.
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“University College Cork continues to attract students of the highest calibre” said UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy when he presented parchments to 74 Entrance Scholarship recipients at a special awards ceremony at the University on Monday, December 6th.  Entrance scholarships up to €2000 are awarded each year to students based on their first Leaving Certificate results.  All of the scholarship winners this year achieved 570 points in the Leaving Certificate, with almost half achieving 600 points across the Colleges of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Science, Business and Law, Science, Engineering and Food Science and Medicine and Health. 
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Winter conferring ceremonies concluded today (December 8th 2010) at UCC with almost 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences.

The Conferring addresses were given by Mr Theo Dorgan, Poet, Writer & Lecturer (attached). 

Pictured at the UCC Winter Conferrings on December 7th 2010 are graduates from the College of Medicine & Health including graduates of the new four-year BSc Midwifery programme.

Cardiovascular disease accounts for about a third of all deaths in the world. In Europe it is the main single cause of death. A key challenge in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is the development of novel medical devices that are less invasive, less expensive, and safer.  The European Commission has launched a project called “Heart-e-Gel”, funded under the FP7 Specific Programme “Cooperation”, to develop such devices for treating conditions like varicose veins and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). The research project started in September 2010 for a duration of 3 years and is coordinated by the Tyndall National Institute, UCC.
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The Chinese Ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Liu Biwei will deliver a lecture at UCC on Wednesday, December 15th 2010 titled "View China Objectively, Achieve Common Development Cooperatively.” This is the fifth lecture in a series of lectures titled “Ireland in the New Asia” involving the key Asian ambassadors to Ireland, aimed at highlighting the opportunities and challenges for Irish people who, increasingly, will look to the East for a brighter future.
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The Cavanagh Pharmacy Building (CPB) is widely recognised as a state-of-the-art infrastructure for teaching and research across all aspects of the Pharmaceutical Sciences. In addition, it plays a critical role for interaction with external stakeholders in the healthcare and industrial arenas.
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Two collaborative research teams at UCC have received Healthcare Innovation Programme Awards (HIPA) from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Dr Justin McCarthy (Department of Biochemistry) in conjunction with Dr Gerard McGlacken (Department of Chemistry) of the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF) have secured a research award that will fund a postgraduate student to contribute to Dr McCarthy’s current SFI Principal Investigator research programme focused on determining the involvement of regulated intramembrane proteolysis in the immune system.
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The Molecular Medicine Ireland (MMI) Clinician Scientist Structured PhD Curriculum has been formally launched, with information on over 60 graduate education modules specially selected for clinician scientist trainees and grouped under curriculum topics in an easily-navigated web interface. Molecular Medicine Ireland was established in 2008 by the National University of Ireland Galway, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Cork, University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin and their associated academic hospitals, as a research partnership to accelerate the translation of biomedical research into improved diagnostics and therapies for patients.
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Investigating hypotension in the preterm infant will be the focus of a major EU funded Trial just launched at Cork University Hospital. Hypotension remains a significant problem in the preterm infant and is statistically associated with adverse short-term and long-term outcomes. The Hypotension in the Preterm Infant (HIP) trial is a multicentre, multinational, randomised trial of two different approaches to the management of hypotension in the extremely low gestational age newborn (ELGAN) infant.