Date for your diary - A journey through the UCC Arboretum to celebrate Culture Night 17th Sept at 7pm
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UCC Arboretum to participate in Culture Night 2021
09 Sep 2021
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Schools visit UCC Arboretum as part of new Tree Explorers Project.
28 Jun 2021
Three schools from Cork City visited the UCC Arboretum this June as part of the new Science Foundation Ireland funded Tree Explorers Project.
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Tree Explorers grows with new funding
01 Jun 2022
More school children and members of the public will get to learn about the science of the natural world following the UCC 'Tree Explorers' project receiving new funding today. Tree Explorers has secured further funding for this year through the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Discover Programme.
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Launch of the University College Cork Natural Collections website to share an extraordinary legacy
01 Feb 2022
A cavy and opossum, unusual animals collected by Charles Darwin on his formative voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, are some of the items included in the University College Cork Natural Collections website
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Trees of UCC: Community Week Tree Tour
07 Oct 2021
This event is part of UCC Community Week 2021. During Community Week, staff and students across the university come together with community and public sector partners to host community focussed events and activities. The week long programme of events celebrates UCC as a civically engaged university.
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Gaelscoil Chorain visit UCC Arboretum
25 Jul 2022
Youghal students take a tour of the UCC trees with the Tree Explorers Team.
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South Parish Tree Audit Launched
11 Oct 2021
The report is a collaboration between the local community and BEES researchers and students.
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Culture Night at UCC Arboretum
15 Sep 2022
The role and cultural significance of urban trees - take a tour of this Cork City tree collection
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UCC ranked as one of the most sustainable universities in the world.
16 Dec 2021
Over a decade ago UCC students first embarked on the Green Campus programme and now UCC has ranked as one of the most sustainable universities in the world.
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National Tree Day 2022
20 Oct 2022
UCC Arboretum celebrates National Tree Day with school visit.
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UCC unveils new, free, Arboretum tours to celebrate National Tree Week
21 Mar 2022
- New self-guided tour of UCC Arboretum is free to the public.
- Audio guide via app is in development.
- Free brochure developed following Science Foundation Ireland funding.
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Surviving seeds from Hiroshima to be planted in UCC.
29 Nov 2021
We are delighted to be partnering with Green Legacy Hiroshima to germinate seeds in Ireland from the historic 'Survivor Trees' of Hiroshima. We'll be growing Ginkgo and Oriental Plane trees here at UCC.
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'UCC Arboretum: Learning from a living collection'
31 Jan 2022
The Cork Literary & Scientific Society presents an online talk
'UCC Arboretum: Learning from a living collection'by Dr. Eoin Lettice,lecturer in plant science at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES) and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at University College Cork.The online talk will be available to view from 27 January to 3 February 2022.http://www.corkliteraryandscientificsociety.ie/Read more -
Fascination of Plants Day 2022
04 May 2022
Fascination of Plants Day is back and is happening this month - 18th May !
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Ireland’s woodlands to become ‘living classrooms’ following successful Tree Explorers Projects
06 Mar 2023
Irish Tree Explorers Network (ITEN) is a collaboration between the School of BEES (Dr Eoin Lettice and Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich) and the School of English and Digital Humanities (Prof. Claire Connolly). ITEN builds on the success of the Tree Explorers projects that have been based in the globally accredited UCC Arboretum since 2021. ITEN allows the project team to take what's been learned in the projects based in Cork and bring that to a national audience through partnerships with Coillte, the Office of Public Works (OPW) and the Tree Council of Ireland
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UCC Arboretum to host one day symposium on trees this Spring.
26 Oct 2022
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UCC Arboretum at COP26
08 Nov 2021
One of our team is part of the UCC delegation at COP26 this week. Fitting that it is also Science Week here. One of our projects here at UCC Arboretum is the Tree Explorers Project which is funded by SFI (Science Foundation Ireland). Our Arboretum is a powerful educational tool and what seems to be clear from COP26 is that nature based solutions are the way forward. Click on the link below to find out the full story.
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