Ph.D. student Xi Cao, under the supervision of Dr. Eric Moore, won the best poster presentation at the ChemCYS 2016 conference in Blankenberge, Belgium on 18^th March for her research on “Separation of Organophosphate Nerve Agents by Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis”.

Prof. Justin Holmes has been elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Five students from various chemistry degree programmes were today awarded by UCC under the Quercus Talented Students’ Programme.

The very first award of the AbbVie Student Prize for Excellence in Third Year Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry was made on Monday February 15, 2016. The prize was won by Hannah Hayes, who is in the third year of the B.Sc. Chemistry of Pharmaceutical Compounds degree.

This afternoon saw 4 Chemistry students graduate with Ph.D. degrees.

2016 will see the Department of Chemistry at University College Cork hosting the 68th Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium on June 23rd & 24th.

The 16th Annual Chemistry Department Christmas Coffee Morning in aid of the Marymount Hospice took place on Monday 21^st December in the Aula Maxima.

The 2016 Salters Festival of Chemistry takes place in University College Cork on Wednesday April 20^th 2016. All schools are welcome to enter.

University College Cork received €8,682,332 or 30% of the €28.8m for funding research infrastructure as announced by Ministers Bruton and English and the SFI yesterday (Tuesday 12 Jan). UCC researchers are leading or involved in eight of the 21 chosen projects.