The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD today launched UCC’s Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. The strategy aims to create a needs-led integrated support structure across campus and externally, to offer students the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

UCC President John O’ Halloran has unveiled the UCC Rainbow Walkway on campus to mark National Coming Out Day on October 11th and as part of UCC Community Week.

The UCC Rainbow Walkway has been installed to celebrate and recognise the diversity of the UCC community and to express UCC’s firm commitment to the creation of a campus that is inclusive, where the whole of the UCC community can feel a sense of welcome and belonging.

• Commitment of €11.2m from Health Research Board, UCC, Mercy University Hospital and South/Southwest Hospital Group to Clinical Research Facility UCC.
• Clinical Research Facility UCC has supported 154 clinical trials in the past five years
• Studies have led to market authorisation of 11 new medications including new  treatments for asthma, cystic fibrosis, food allergies and renal disease.

A singathon with older members of our community in the Aula Maxima, a local gardening workshop, a talk by a spiritual elder and a sustainable innovation workshop are among over 50 free events that will occur as part of University College Cork (UCC) Community Week.

Seeking the conversion of waste heat into electricity, improving risk assessment for suicide in older people, and examining the community’s experience of the Irish revolution are among the almost €3.8m in funding received by University College Cork researchers under the Irish Research Council’s flagship Government of Ireland programme.

Findings have important implications for sustainable development and climate change mitigations efforts

University College Cork (UCC) this morning welcomes the Cabinet who are meeting in the historic Aula Maxima at the university.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar TD and Minister Eamon Ryan TD were greeted upon arrival in the Quad by UCC President Professor John O’Halloran who escorted them to the President’s Office for the signing of the visitor’s book and the presentation of a gift of UCC Alma Nectar honey, which is produced at the UCC apiary on campus.

Awards showcase the best in research, innovation, and collaboration from public research.

Two spin out companies at University College Cork (UCC) have been shortlisted by Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) in their 2021 Impact Awards, with the winners to be announced on November 26^th, 2021, at a virtual ceremony from Croke Park. 

• Conference set to mark 100 years since the beginning of the talks that culminated in the Anglo-Irish Treaty

• An Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Paul Johnston, British Ambassador to Ireland, among the speakers 

• Conference to host oral history of the families of members of the Treaty Delegation, featuring descendants of those who took part in the talks.

Rural dwellers in Ireland and those living in public housing, were among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with residents in those areas across Ireland experiencing higher rates of hospitalisations, a University College Cork (UCC) and Technological University Dublin (TUDublin) study finds.