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News Archive 2024
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience FLAME Laboratory honours Anatomical Donors in fifth Thanksgiving Service

The Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience will host its fifth Thanksgiving Service in memory of the people who donated their bodies to University College Cork for medical research. The service is a celebration of the lives of all donors and especially of those donors who were part of the donation programme in the past four years.
The Thanksgiving Service is now an established event in the calendar of the College of Medicine & Health at UCC. Hosted biannually by the staff of the FLAME Laboratory, since 2012, the service brings families of donors, staff and students of anatomy together at a musical and reading celebration. The event gives the University and anatomy students an opportunity to acknowledge the gift that they have received from the donors and their families.
This year Professor Aideen Sullivan, Head of Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience will address the guests, and student volunteers from Medicine, Medical and Health Sciences, Neuroscience and Anatomy will perform readings and music along with the UCC Choir conducted by Dr Eva McMullan.
If you are interested in attending the 2024 Thanksgiving Service, there are a limited number of seats still available, click on this link to reserve a seat.
In addition to the Thanksgiving Service the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience commissioned an abstract sculpture in the form of a flame. It represents the flame of knowledge which leads to the light of understanding.
Previous Thanksgiving Services news items: Thanksgiving Service 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012
If you are interested in the UCC Body Donation Programme contact:
Ms Shelley O’Shea,
Senior Executive Assistant,
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience
(021) 420 5497
or email anatomy@ucc.ie
For more on this story contact:
News item Bereniece Riedewald