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02 Jun 2023
UCC celebrates excellence in research and innovation
Climate scientists, the developers of the medicines of tomorrow, budding entrepreneurs and partners with communities were among the researchers to have their contributions to research and innovation honoured at the 2022 University College Cork (UCC) Research Awards, held at Devere Hall on Thursday, June 1.
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01 Jun 2023
UCC rises in THE Impact Rankings
UCC up to 58th of 1,591 universities in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. UCC ranked within the top 20 globally in two of the rankings’ 17 categories. UCC went plastic free this year - 287,500 fewer cups and 12,250 fewer plastic bottles in first issued on campus in four months of 2023 compared to same period last year.
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31 May 2023
UCC study to tackle speech and language gap of children from under-resourced areas
'Happy Talk' will address the speech and language skills of preschool and early school aged children. The UCC study is among 12 projects to receive an investment of €10.2 million from the HRB.
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30 May 2023
SFI funded UCC project will enable pupil led research in air quality studies around their schools
Seven UCC projects awarded a combined €5,464,481 in the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Frontiers for the Future programme. Funding of these research projects will address researcher funding gender imbalance and supporting researchers returning from leave.
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