• Researchers call for clearer messaging to help public and policymakers to better understand the disease of obesity.
• Conflicting understandings of the word ‘obesity’ jeopardise diagnosis and treatment.
• Clinicians are expressing concern at shortages of drugs which have been approved to treat obesity.

• €14.4m EU further funding for alliance of universities in ten countries including Ireland, Spain, Germany.
• University College Cork to receive €1.87m in funding
• Strategic alliance opens up opportunities for students to study across Europe

• The plan outlines UCC’s actions towards net zero.
• Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath TD, addresses students and staff at the launch.

• It is the first dedicated EIB support for business school investment in Ireland.
• The development will provide an economic boost to the area by bringing over 4,500 students and 225 staff into the city centre every day.

• Laura Hurley wins EU Mies van der Rohe ‘Young Talent Architecture Award’ in Italy.
• The award was presented at the Venice Biennale.
• Cork Centre for Architectural Education is a partnership between UCC and MTU.

• UCC up 11 places to 292 of the 2,963 evaluated institutions in the 20th Edition of the QS World University Rankings. The final published ranking has been limited to the top 1,503 universities.
• UCC ranked 46th in the world for the advancement of sustainability.
• UCC strong performance across the nine indicators used to rank the universities with particular strengths for sustainability and internationalisation.

• UCC scientists confirm crucial characteristic of new superconductor material.
• Superconductor could open the way to functional quantum computers.

• New children’s book follows the adventures of a redwood on UCC’s campus
• ‘A Tree at UCC’ follows the hugely successful ‘A Bee at UCC’, now on its fifth print
• Book officially launched in UCC’s Aula Maxima

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD today welcomed the third in a series of dialogue meetings between senior Department officials and institutional leaders aimed at driving stronger regional collaboration on some of the major challenges facing the country.

Tyndall National Institute, based at University College Cork, Ireland, has announced the establishment of the Meta Industrial Chair in Semiconductor Technologies underpinning a multi-year research programme.