More than 1/3 of all food is wasted worldwide, equating to 1.3 billion tonnes every year 

How you shop and where you shop has a big impact on the amount of food waste you generate, new research reveals. 

The study by University College Cork (UCC) researchers in Cork University Business School (CUBS) and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) explored food supply channels to see what influence they had on household food consumption practices and how sustainable a household was.

The British Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Mr Paul Johnston, met with the University College Cork (UCC) delegation who have just returned from the United Nations COP26 conference.  

UCC as the only Irish university with official observer status at the global climate change summit, sent a delegation of nine researchers and students to Glasgow.  

Two UCC documentaries produced in association with RTÉ will soon be shown to millions across Europe. 

Researchers working with APC Microbiome Ireland, a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre based in University College Cork (UCC) have made a global list of the top 1% of the world’s most influential scientific researchers.

The IGNITE programme at UCC, which nurtures startups from ideas to commercial reality, is celebrating ten years of success this month. The IGNITE programme has supported more than 120 start-ups led by recent graduates since its inception in 2011. Over that time the companies have created 250 jobs and raised more than €16 million in funding. 

University College Cork (UCC) has unveiled a plaque acknowledging funding from one of Ireland’s leading cancer research charities, Breakthrough Cancer Research, to create a prestigious research position in memory of Professor Gerald O’Sullivan. The Professor Gerald O’Sullivan Chair in Cancer Research is named after the highly acclaimed surgeon, and founder of translational cancer research in the region.

A tireless patient advocate has today been awarded an honorary doctorate at University College Cork (UCC).

Dr Margaret Murphy’s 21-year-old son Kevin, died in 1999, suffering from hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the blood), a condition that is treatable in the early stages. When compiling the file in the hospital, a Post-It note containing vital calcium results was stuck to the back of a letter and was not seen until six weeks after Kevin’s death.

A University College Cork (UCC) academic has been awarded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) in recognition of his international engagement and leadership in the the area of trustworthy artificial intelligence, and especially his work with the European Commission and other international organisations in developing Europe’s approach to human-centric AI.

Barry O’Sullivan, Professor at the UCC School of Computer Science & IT was one of eight winners at the SFI Awards, announced today the the annual Science Summit which was held virtually.

Chair Professor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Nabeel A. Riza of University College Cork (UCC), has been inducted as a 2021 International Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK’s National Academy of Engineering.