University College Cork wishes to extend its deepest sympathy to the family of Adrienne Cullen, who died on Monday in the Netherlands.

• Irish-created Spree, an exercise app that reduces the risk of frailty in older adults, wins Global Design Challenge for Sport and Physical Activity 2021

• Winning entry secures €10,000 development app

• 256 registrants from 53 countries enter contest backed by UCC, Sport Ireland, and UNESCO

An Irish developer has won an international competition that sought innovative ways to promote physical activity, having developed an exercise app that reduces the risk of frailty in older adults.

The Global Design Challenge for Sport and Physical Activity 2021 - hosted by University College Cork (UCC), in association with Sport Ireland and with UNESCO patronage - had 256 registrants from 53 countries, including Cambodia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Bulgaria and Costa Rica.

These entrants responded to the challenge to design innovative ways of increasing participation in sport and physical activity in an inclusive, sustainable and fun way. The challenge is a bid to engage more people in sport and physical activity following a year of lockdown and restrictions that have seen participation levels plummet.

Professor Séamus Davis, who leads a pioneering quantum research programme at University College Cork (UCC) and the University of Oxford, has made another major advance in the study of quantum materials.

Cork is ideally positioned to be a global leader for the provision of sustainable business education, according to the strategic vision for Cork University Business School (CUBS) which was launched today, Thursday 24 June.

University College Cork announces today that its much cherished Old College Bar has been transformed into a dedicated space of respite and calm for students, and in particular students on the autism spectrum. 

The old cousins of the common woodlice were crawling on Irish land as long as 360 million years ago, according to new analysis of a fossil found in Kilkenny.

With her debut novel, Holding Her Breath, due for release this week, we spoke to the Arts Council/University College Cork Writer in Residence for 2021, Eimear Ryan, about her career, her writing inspirations, and her advice for emerging artists.  

UCC Alumni and Development has announced the launch of an exciting interactive marketing campaign for the university’s new alumni engagement platform, UCC Alumni Online.

A team of researchers led by University College Cork (UCC) Professor John Atkins, together with their Swiss collaborators have just published in Science, work that highlights a potential drug target against the Covid causative virus. The study includes a very high resolution microscopic study that reveals new information about the synthesis of proteins in general.

A University College Cork academic has been appointed chair of Ireland’s first National Research Ethics Committee for Clinical Investigations of Medical Devices (NREC-MD) by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.

Professor Barry O’Sullivan of UCC’s School of Computer Science & IT will chair a committee responsible for reviewing the ethics underpinning research proposals in the field of medical devices, with the aim of providing single national ethics opinions that are respected nationally. As such, NRECs will play a key role in protecting the safety, dignity and well-being of health research participants in Ireland.