University College Cork (UCC), as the only Irish university with official observer status at the United Nations COP26 conference, is sending a delegation of researchers and students to the upcoming global summit in Glasgow. 

University College Cork (UCC) welcomes the publication of the HEA Race Equality Report by Dr Marta Kempny and Dr Lucy Michael.

Fewer than one-in-four intercounty hurlers who showed signs of suffering concussion during play over a two year period were removed from play, according to a new study  from University College Cork (UCC).

University College Cork today celebrated its recent Athena SWAN award successes, recognising the University’s commitment to promoting good practice and advancing gender equality in higher education.

Greater access to communication platforms, more support tools for remote working and studying, and a greater use of analytics to improve teaching services are among the goals contained in University College Cork’s first Digital Master Plan, which has been launched by UCC President Prof.  John O’Halloran.

The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD today launched UCC’s Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. The strategy aims to create a needs-led integrated support structure across campus and externally, to offer students the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

UCC President John O’ Halloran has unveiled the UCC Rainbow Walkway on campus to mark National Coming Out Day on October 11th and as part of UCC Community Week.

The UCC Rainbow Walkway has been installed to celebrate and recognise the diversity of the UCC community and to express UCC’s firm commitment to the creation of a campus that is inclusive, where the whole of the UCC community can feel a sense of welcome and belonging.

• Commitment of €11.2m from Health Research Board, UCC, Mercy University Hospital and South/Southwest Hospital Group to Clinical Research Facility UCC.
• Clinical Research Facility UCC has supported 154 clinical trials in the past five years
• Studies have led to market authorisation of 11 new medications including new  treatments for asthma, cystic fibrosis, food allergies and renal disease.

A singathon with older members of our community in the Aula Maxima, a local gardening workshop, a talk by a spiritual elder and a sustainable innovation workshop are among over 50 free events that will occur as part of University College Cork (UCC) Community Week.

Seeking the conversion of waste heat into electricity, improving risk assessment for suicide in older people, and examining the community’s experience of the Irish revolution are among the almost €3.8m in funding received by University College Cork researchers under the Irish Research Council’s flagship Government of Ireland programme.