University College Cork is delighted to confirm the appointment of two-time World Champion and three-time Olympian Sanita Puspure as UCC Sport’s new head coach for rowing.
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Olympian and World Champion Puspure appointed UCC Head Rowing Coach
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Brian Corbett awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize
29 Nov 2021Brian Corbett a world-leading researcher from Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork (UCC) and IPIC, the SFI Research Centre for Photonics, has been awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize.
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INFANT Research Centre wins “Best application of AI in an Academic Research Body” in the National AI Awards 2021
26 Nov 2021The INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork has won the prestigious “Best application of AI in an Academic Research Body” award at this year’s National AI Awards.
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UCC Collaboration Takes Top Industry Award
26 Nov 2021One of University College Cork (UCC) and Tyndall National Institute’s most successful collaboration projects has won Knowledge Transfer Ireland’s prestigious 2021 Industry Engagement Impact Award.
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UCC project on Early Identification of Suicide and Self-Harm Risk awarded €1.5m HRB funding
24 Nov 2021A project hosted at University College Cork (UCC) that will increase research and training on earlier intervention in suicide and self-harm risk has been awarded €1.5m in funding from the Health Research Board (HRB).
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Coastal Atlas of Ireland wins Best Irish Published Book of the Year
24 Nov 2021The Coastal Atlas of Ireland has won TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year 2021.
TheJournal.ie Best Irish-published award was set up to reward the excellence of native publishing and submitted titles must emanate from an Irish-based publishing house, with the public asked to vote on a shortlist of titles.
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UCC operations commended in international sustainability review
19 Nov 2021Divesting from fossil fuels, reducing waste by 264 tonnes (the equivalent of 37 elephants!), providing farm to fork food for students and staff and implementing a ‘plastic free’ policy across its campus has led to University College Cork (UCC) being highlighted as world-leading university by an international body in its 2021 Sustainable Campus Index.
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‘Voice of her generation’ author Louise O’Neill honoured by UCC
19 Nov 2021Award-winning author and columnist Louise O’Neill today (FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19) received an Honorary Doctorate in Law from University College Cork (UCC) in recognition of her work’s role in bringing problematic issues to the fore in contemporary discourse.
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How and where you shop has a big impact on food waste, study reveals
19 Nov 2021More than 1/3 of all food is wasted worldwide, equating to 1.3 billion tonnes every year
How you shop and where you shop has a big impact on the amount of food waste you generate, new research reveals.
The study by University College Cork (UCC) researchers in Cork University Business School (CUBS) and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) explored food supply channels to see what influence they had on household food consumption practices and how sustainable a household was.
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British Ambassador meets UCC COP26 delegation
12 Nov 2021The British Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Mr Paul Johnston, met with the University College Cork (UCC) delegation who have just returned from the United Nations COP26 conference.
UCC as the only Irish university with official observer status at the global climate change summit, sent a delegation of nine researchers and students to Glasgow.
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