Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, has today announced the appointment of Professor Claire Connolly to the Irish Research Council for a three-year period.

Beidh Seán Ó Riada - cumadóir agus duine mór le rá na hÉireann sa 20ú haois - ar do scáileáin ar Lá Fhéile Stiofáin ar TG4 i gclár le tacaíocht ó Ollscoil na hÉireann, Corcaigh.

Professor Áine Ryall (UCC School of Law) has been elected Chair of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.  

• €2.37m funding from Health Research Board towards €4.2m total
• Five-year collaborative UCC-HSE project aims to afford greater clinical trial access
• UCC Cancer Trials will bring together dedicated cancer specialist teams across South of Ireland
• Project designed to meet demand identified in National Cancer Strategy

Cancer patients in the South and Southwest of Ireland may benefit from greater access to clinical trials as part of a multimillion euro project announced by the College of Medicine and Health at University College Cork (UCC) and Cancer Research @UCC.

University College Cork (UCC) students returning to their families this Christmas will receive free antigen tests, as the university commences a programme supported by the Department of Higher Education, Research Innovation & Science.  

An international ranking which examines sustainability practices in universities across the world, has ranked University College Cork (UCC) today at eighth, the only Irish university to make the top 10 of the ‘greenest universities’ in the world. UCC was ranked at ninth in the annual world ranking last year.  

A University College Cork (UCC) researcher’s efforts to tackle conspiracy theories via a video game has been rewarded with a new scholarship focussed on addressing problematic online behaviour.

Cian O’Mahony has today been announced as one of just two awardees of the inaugural Irish Research Council (IRC) and Google Ireland Scholarship under the IRC Enterprise Partnership Scheme.

UCC researchers recognised in Irish Awards

• UCC one of only 20 teacher training centres Europe-wide on active European citizenship
• UCC is to deliver Continuing Professional Development courses and turn-key web-based teaching programmes to primary and secondary teachers, from Junior Infants to 6th year
• Primary, secondary and third level students to be engaged on the topic of European active citizenship through YouTube, Instagram and TikTok posts
• Led by Dr Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan, newly appointed Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair in Active European Citizenship.

UCC & King’s College London agree research partnership

There has been increasing emphasis on the role of lifestyle factors in healthy aging. Now APC Microbiome Ireland, the SFI Research Centre at University College Cork (UCC) together with King's College London have been awarded research funding to investigate how exercise impacts gut microbiota and brain health in middle age.