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.

Brian 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.

The 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.

One 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.

A 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).

The 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.

Divesting 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.

Award-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. 

More 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.

The 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.