University College Cork (UCC) has appointed Professor Séamus Davis to spearhead a pioneering research programme to study Quantum Materials for Quantum Technology, in a joint appointment with the University of Oxford.
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World leading academic joins University College Cork
19 Dec 2018
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UCC named one of world’s ‘most sustainable’ universities
20 Dec 2018
University College Cork (UCC) has become the only university in Ireland to make the top 10 in a list of the ‘greenest’ universities in the world.
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Origin of feathers pushed back by 70 million years
19 Dec 2018
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A new bridge for Cork
13 Dec 2018
The Cavanagh bridge was officially opened to the public yesterday at UCC by Dr Tom Cavanagh, the President of UCC, Professor Patrick O’ Shea and Mark Poland, Director of Buildings & Estates, UCC.
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INFANT celebrates five years of world-class research
11 Dec 2018
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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‘Open Disclosure’ campaigner to be honoured at UCC
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After 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 2018
University 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 2018
The 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 2018
UCC 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 2018
New 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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