Ireland has the highest birth rate in Europe with more than 65,000 babies born each year. Equally high is the output of world-class research by Ireland’s dedicated fetal and neonatal research centre, INFANT, which celebrates a milestone of five years of ground-breaking innovations and research this week.
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INFANT celebrates five years of world-class research
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‘Open Disclosure’ campaigner to be honoured at UCC
07 Dec 2018After Dutch doctors failed her, Adrienne Cullen, now terminally ill, fought the system and won. She went public with her story about how a major Dutch hospital lost her test results, leaving her with incurable cervical cancer. She’s now using the horror of those experiences to drive change in the medical profession.
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UCC launches transformational Academic Strategy
05 Dec 2018University College Cork (UCC) has launched an ambitious Academic Strategy that will transform the UCC learning experience and landscape for the future.
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IMI makes FT's business school rankings for the first time
03 Dec 2018The Irish Management Institute (IMI) has entered the Financial Times’ European Business Schools Rankings for the first time in its history, becoming the highest new European entrant in this year’s list.
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UCC music lecturer wins €2 million global hip hop study grant
29 Nov 2018UCC lecturer in Popular Music Studies, Dr J. Griffith Rollefson, has secured a €2m research grant to undertake the world’s first global study of hip-hop music and culture.
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INFANT Centre research leads to breakthrough treatment for peanut allergy
19 Nov 2018New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Oral Immunotherapy for Peanut Allergy co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Hourihane of INFANT Centre, UCC.
The world’s largest peanut allergy treatment trial, involving more than 30 Irish children, has found that a new oral treatment can successfully reduce sensitivity to peanuts. It offers a real lifeline to those affected by the most common food allergy and the single cause of most food allergy deaths.
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Glamour’s Editor-in-Chief: Fundamentals learned at UCC at heart of my job
28 Nov 2018The skills and passion discovered and developed during her time as an undergraduate student at UCC have impacted every job she’s had since graduation, “from leading the social media expansion of CNN to steering Glamour Magazine’s American edition into a new digital age,” according to Glamour’s Editor-in-Chief Samantha Barry.
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An Unquiet World: Transatlantic Trump, Brexit and Beyond
29 Nov 2018Both Brexit and Trump highlight the rise of 'dog-whistle politics', according to the EU foreign affairs expert who will speak at UCC this afternoon (November 29).
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Book launch shines New Light on George Boole
22 Nov 2018New Light on George Boole, which explores the personal life of UCC's first Professor of Mathematics and the forefather of the Information Age, will be launched at the University today.
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UCC: APC Microbiome Ireland researchers in top global 1%
27 Nov 2018Ten APC Microbiome Ireland researchers have been named in the 2018 world list of Highly Cited Researchers, five of whom are in the new Cross-Field category.
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