News
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Culture Night 2019
13 Sep 2019
Culture Night at BEES takes place on Friday 20th of September
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UCC scientists discover new way to reconstruct what extinct animals looked like
21 Aug 2019
Scientists could be set to reveal the most accurate depictions of ancient vertebrates ever made after a world-first discovery at University College Cork (UCC).
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Study finds plastics at bottom of deep submarine canyon
29 Jul 2019
It is no secret that the world’s oceans are swimming with plastic debris —but the reach of human plastic waste is as deep as 2125m, even 320km offshore, a UCC-led expedition has revealed.
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SEFS Teaching Awards 2019
23 Jul 2019
Dr Jean O'Dwyer and Dr Ed Jarvis picked up SEFS teaching awards recently.
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Long-term population monitoring used to study Atlantic salmon evolution
13 Jun 2019
Ronan O’Sullivan, a PhD student in the School of BEES, along with an international team of collaborators have published research examining how evolution may be measured in a free-living population of Atlantic salmon.
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VACANCY: Senior Demonstrator (BEES)
13 Jun 2019
The School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences seeks a Senior Demonstrator to carry out teaching, administration and examination duties pertaining to first year Biology practicals within the School, and to run the School’s highly successful Transition Year Programme.
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Zoology: William C Campbell Scholarship
20 May 2019
The Department of Education has established a third-level scholarship to honour Irish scientist and Nobel Prize winner Professor William C Campbell. The scholarship is open to those intending to study Zoology.
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VACANCY: Lectureship in Environmental Science
24 Apr 2019
Permanent Whole Time Post. UCC wishes to appoint an experienced academic to the role of Lecturer in Environmental Science. Reporting to the Head of School, the appointee will be required to develop and teach modules as part of the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula in Environmental Science.
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Student Entrepreneur Awards
09 Apr 2019
BEES 4th Year undergraduate Simon Jeggo has won an entrepreneur award for his fouth year project.
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VACANCY: Professor/ Professor (Scale 2) in Agricultural Science
26 Mar 2019
The School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC & Moorepark Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre (Teagasc)
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UV4Plants Workshop 2019
25 Mar 2019
A workshop on UV-B and Climate Change; impacts on plants and vegetation will take place in Cork, Ireland on Monday, April 15th and Tuesday, Aprl 16th, 2019.
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“Ozone depletion is itself contributing to climate change” - UCC Professor co-authors latest UN report on the effects of ozone depletion
14 Mar 2019
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has shown strong interactions between climate change and stratospheric ozone levels.
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Irish Lab Awards
08 Mar 2019
The UCC Palaeobiology Group won the Best Start-up Lab award at the Irish Lab Awards in Dublin last night.
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VACANCY: Professor/ Professor (Scale 2) in Environmental Science
04 Mar 2019
UCC wishes to appoint an experienced academic to the role Professor in Environmental Science within the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences. (Permanent Whole Time Post).
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The Rhizosphere: measuring the zone of interaction
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Dr Eoin Lettice has recently published a review paper addressing the challenges to measuring the spatial extent of the rhizosphere - the zone of interaction between plant roots and the soil.
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Ireland's Fossil Heritage: unlocking our secret past
14 Feb 2019
A new UCC project aims to increase awareness of palaeontology and Ireland's fossils among schoolchildren and adults.
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Geoscience Open Day
13 Feb 2019
The School of BEES at UCC is proud to announce a FREE Geoscience Open Day for second-level students on Saturday 23rd February.
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IAPB presents 'living fossil' Wollemia Pine to UCC
20 Dec 2018
Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich and Dr Eoin Lettice presented a Wollemia Pine specimen to University College Cork this week to mark the culmination of their leadership of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology (IAPB).
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Circadian regulation of plant growth
19 Dec 2018
New paper from Plant Science at UCC.
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Alumni News - Dr Ewen Mullins appointed Head of Crop Science Department at Teagasc
17 Dec 2018
Dr Mullins is a PhD graduate of Plant Science at UCC.
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School of BEES collects Athena SWAN award
07 Dec 2018
The School of BEES was recently awarded a Bronze Athena SWAN award at an event held in Dublin.
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Ground Breaking Research into Ireland's Offshore Habitats and Species
28 Nov 2018
The ObSERVE team announce the findings of three-year projects to study large areas of the Atlantic Margin, Celtic and Irish seas.
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Dr Kate Kiseeva elected to the Council of the European Association of Geochemistry
28 Nov 2018
The European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) is a non-profit organisation aiming to promote geochemistry worldwide.
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BEES Delegation visits China
12 Nov 2018
Prof. Andy Wheeler and Prof. Paul Giller have just returned from a successful visit to China where they visited a range of new and existing collaborative institutions.
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UCC Palaeobiologist Maria McNamara reveals what’s going to be on show during Science Week in Cork!
09 Nov 2018
Science Week runs from 11th-18th November 2018.
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US Geological Survey Director visits BEES
24 Oct 2018
The School of BEES was delighted to welcome Dr James F. Reilly, Director of the US Geological Survey to Cork recently.
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Climate change occurring faster than birds can adapt
24 Jul 2019
Climate change is occurring so rapidly that many animals may be unable to adapt, according to findings of an international study published in Nature Communications.
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Sharks at increasing risk of becoming fishing bycatch
25 Jul 2019
Even the remotest parts of the ocean appear to offer highly-migratory sharks little refuge from industrialised fishing fleets, according to UCC researchers involved in a new Nature study.
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