• University College Cork announces that its Environmental Research Institute’s building on the Lee Road is to be named after Ellen Hutchins – ‘The Botanist of Bantry Bay’.
• Hutchins – recognised as Ireland’s first female botanist – discovered a number of plants, inspired a novel, and has species named in her honour.
• Artefacts and documents go on display in dedicated Ellen Hutchins Reading Room.

• Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland have identified a drug that increases resilience to chronic stress.
• Major discovery could lead to more effective treatments for anxiety disorders and depression.

• Michael Bradley, former Connacht, Edinburgh and Zebre coach, has been announced as UCC RFC’s new Head Coach
• Former Irish internationals, Ken O’Connell and Paul McCarty, will join Bradley’s coaching group, along with ex-Munster fly-half Scott Deasy.
• UCC RFC will begin their AIL season against Malone on 1 October.

• New study finds that the position of the continents plays a vital role in the distribution of life-supporting oxygen in our oceans.  
• The movement of the continents over many millions of years could have triggered mass extinction events and influenced the evolution of marine life.

Lord David Puttnam, the Oscar-winning producer of films including Chariots of Fire, The Mission, The Killing Fields, and Midnight Express recently celebrated ten years of his Skibbereen-based company Atticus Education. The pioneering organisation was set up to teach creativity and innovation to students across the world and University College Cork (UCC) was one of the first universities to come on board.

The Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork was announced as European Art Museum 2022 at a gala ceremony at MUDAM (Museum of Modern Art) in Luxembourg over the weekend. Speaking from the event, Professor Fiona Kearney, Glucksman Director, said, “Myself and the team are hugely honoured by this prestigious award and the recognition it gives to an Irish museum among our European peers.”

Professor John O'Halloran, President of University College Cork, has paid the following tribute to the philantropist, businessman, and dear friend of UCC Dr Tom Cavanagh following his passing yesterday.

A University College Cork-led research consortium has secured €9 million from the European Union to develop the next phase of Europe’s strategically important artificial intelligence infrastructure known as the AI-on-demand (AIOD) platform.

• Researchers at University College Cork and the University of Oxford have cracked one of the major outstanding problems of modern-day physics, unsolved for almost 40 years.
• Researchers developed new microscopy techniques to unlock the secret of high-temperature superconductors.
• New discovery could open the way towards developing room-temperature superconducting materials.

Other Voices is coming to University College Cork (UCC) to present a spectacular night of music live streamed from UCC’s striking riverside campus on Thursday September 29th.