The BEES Zoo Research Group participates in the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival with an exhibit linked to ongoing research at Fota Wildlife Park.

UCC wishes to appoint an experienced academic to the role of Lecturer in Environmental Science within the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences.

School of BEES researchers promoting STEM at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition at the RDS in Dublin with Deputy Micheal Martin TD. 

The European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology, EMPSEB, will hold its 26^th annual meeting in Killarney from the 19^th – 24^th April 2020.

Dairygold Co-operative Society has awarded two undergraduate bursaries to students of the new Agricultural Science degree programme at BEES.

The Agricultural Science degree programme was launched at an event held at Teagasc Moorepark last week.

A Dual BSc in Environmental Science with Environmental Management has just been launched by the School of BEES, UCC and the University of Minzu, China.

UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence on what type of animal is the bizarre 300 million year old fossil known as the “Tully Monster”.  The new findings show that the Tully Monster may not be a backboned animal as previously thought.

The School of BEES annual prizegiving ceremony took place recently with awards presented across the School.

BEES scientists and Head of the Discipline of Geology received a UCC Leadership Award at the recent UCC Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony.

As part of University College Cork's Community Week, Dr Eoin Lettice led a tour of UCC's tree collection on its award-winning, green-flag campus.

Culture Night at BEES takes place on Friday 20th of September

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).  

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.

Dr Jean O'Dwyer and Dr Ed Jarvis picked up SEFS teaching awards recently.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

BEES 4th Year undergraduate Simon Jeggo has won an entrepreneur award for his fouth year project.

The School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC & Moorepark Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre (Teagasc)
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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.

A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has shown strong interactions between climate change and stratospheric ozone levels.

The UCC Palaeobiology Group won the Best Start-up Lab award at the Irish Lab Awards in Dublin last night.

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).

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.

A new UCC project aims to increase awareness of palaeontology and Ireland's fossils among schoolchildren and adults.

The School of BEES at UCC is proud to announce a FREE Geoscience Open Day for second-level students on Saturday 23^rd February.

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).

New paper from Plant Science at UCC.

Dr Mullins is a PhD graduate of Plant Science at UCC.

The School of BEES was recently awarded a Bronze Athena SWAN award at an event held in Dublin.

The ObSERVE team announce the findings of three-year projects to study large areas of the Atlantic Margin, Celtic and Irish seas.

The European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) is a non-profit organisation aiming to promote geochemistry worldwide.

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.

Science Week runs from 11th-18th November 2018.

The School of BEES was delighted to welcome Dr James F. Reilly, Director of the US Geological Survey to Cork recently.

Prof. Sarah Culloty and Dr. Sharon Lynch hosted a three day event recently (16^th to 18^th October) at the Beaufort-ERI and ERI Buildings (UCC) to facilitate interaction between stakeholders and the Cockles Project partners from five EU countries (Ireland, UK, France, Spain and Portugal). 

The BEES Prizegiving 2017 took place earlier this week at the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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.

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. 

Jackdaws are more likely to join a mob to drive off predators if lots of their fellow birds are up for the fight, new research shows.

Nature documentaries raise species awareness and promote pro-conservation behaviours, but don't lead to donations to conservation charities, a new Irish study has revealed.

There is now a momentum in all types of food production towards a circular economy where we no longer regard waste as a problem to be disposed of, but instead look for ways to make it a reusable resource. 

Funding for biodiversity conservation in Ireland is primarily derived from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).