Women with pre-eclampsia during pregnancy have a five-fold increased risk of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) later in life compared to women who don’t develop pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, according to a new study.

A group of UCC staff has visited a migrant shelter in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, as part of a collaboration with one of UCC’s partners in the region, the Universidad Veracruzana.

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.

Performer and teacher Danny O’Mahony has been appointed as the Traditional Artist in Residence at University College Cork 2019-20.

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. 

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.

New educational courses, training and research projects will be established at Cappanalea, Ireland’s National Centre for Outdoor Education and Training, through an agreement signed between Kerry Education and Training Board (Kerry ETB) and University College Cork (UCC).

Irish research is revealing an entirely lost news world in Florence’s Medici Archives.

Following a comprehensive assessment programme by Fáilte Ireland, over 8000 campus accommodation bedrooms across Ireland’s seven Universities, including UCC, have been successfully accredited as ‘approved tourist accommodation’.

Everyone who suffered abuse in a defective school system should now be paid the compensation they are entitled to under human rights law, writes UCC's Conor O’Mahony.