The CEO of a non-profit aiming to educate a billion people around the world for free is among those set to awarded honorary doctorates by University College Cork (UCC) on November 2.

UCC has honoured a number of its staff for their outstanding contributions to University life at the 2015 Staff Recognition Awards. Affectionately dubbed the #UCCOscars, read on to find out the winners!

UCC is very pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Catherine Day, outgoing Secretary General of the European Commission to be Chair of its Governing Body until January, 2019.

An incredible line-up awaits those keen to be serenaded at a movie-themed musical extravaganza on 4 July, as A Summer’s Evening on the Quad celebrates its 10th year and €400,000+ raised for charity.

On the eve of the 2015 UCC Honorary Conferrings, fashion designer Don O’Neill, furniture designer Joseph Walsh and cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber will take part in a creative conversation at the Glucksman.

As part of ‘Continuous Improvement in UCC- A roadmap to 2017,’ seven staff members have received recognition for attaining Lean Green Belt certification awards.

Researchers in the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF) at UCC led by Anita Maguire, have designed and synthesised a new class of compounds with potential in the discovery of new antiviral drugs.

UCC’s MSc Information Systems for Business Performance (ISBP) has won Postgraduate Course of the Year in the business category at the annual Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards.

UCC researchers have found that people with multimorbidity (that is two or more chronic diseases at the same time) were more likely to report having had bad experiences in childhood than people without multimorbidity.  

The APC Microbiome Institute at UCC has entered into an alliance with Second Genome Inc. to develop microbiome-based therapies that prevent and treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).