• The Toy Library offers a free way for families to donate and find toys this Christmas season.
• A UCC researcher is encouraging families to join the ‘Circular Christmas’ movement and helping to reduce the environmental impact of toys across Ireland.
• The toy industry is the most plastic intensive industry in the world.

• UCC researcher to lead European-wide project investigating how ideas, misinformation and extremist narratives about the Vikings spread.
• Dr Birkett awarded €2m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to lead research on the legacy of the Vikings.
• NorseMap will adapt large-scale citizen science mapping to the humanities.

An internationally renowned expert in the field of ultrafast laser and x-ray science is among the high-profile graduates who took part in a special event on 29 November celebrating 175 years of Physics at University College Cork (UCC). Professor Margaret Murnane is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her accolades include the 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics.

A University College Cork (UCC) researcher will develop a programme that supports the education of current and future health-care providers who work with patients on their cancer journey, as part of a project to receive funding from the Health Research Board All-Island Cancer Consortium (HRB AICC) awards.

• Edna O’Brien, Joanne O’Riordan, Honora ‘Nano’ Nagle, Mary Crilly and Dr. Naomi Masheti are among the eleven women selected for Accenture’s Women on Walls at UCC.
• More than 600 nominations were submitted by members of the public following an open call for subject suggestions.
• An open call to artists has now been announced to create the portrait series, which will hang in UCC’s historic Aula Maxima.

University College Cork (UCC) researchers have been awarded a combined €2m for separate projects that will find novel solutions to monitor patients with inflammatory kidney disease and better understand how social determinants affect suicidal behaviours.

University College Cork researchers feature prominently in the 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher List.

• Journey from science to the arts celebrated as Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney is honoured by alma mater.
• Other recipients of UCC alumni awards include the Provost of Trinity College Dublin Dr Linda Doyle.

University College Cork (UCC) and the Irish Examiner have partnered to develop a special election podcast series.

Election Watch recorded in UCC’s 98.35FM radio studio, features UCC students and academics, with the podcast hosted by Irish Examiner columnist Mick Clifford.

Each episode will be published every Wednesday during the election campaign and will tackle a different question.

Students and researchers from University College Cork (UCC) will again attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties (COP) when the 29^th edition of the summit takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan this week.