2015 Press Releases | University College Cork

UCC alum named Best Young Entrepreneur

06 Jan 2016

A UCC graduate and student captured two of the top awards at Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur competition in 2015.

Dr Seamus O’Reilly wins Supply Chain Leader Award

11 Dec 2015

Dr Seamus O’Reilly, Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of Supply Chain Management programmes at UCC, has won the 2015 Procurement and Supply Chain Leader Award at the National Procurement Supply Chain Awards.

Cork Convention Bureau honours UCC conferences

04 Dec 2015

Cork Convention Bureau (CCB) last night honoured UCC in two categories at its annual #CorkNeedsYou Cork Conference Ambassadors Awards.

ERI researchers showcase research at COP21

03 Dec 2015

“We are the first generation to fully understand climate change, and the last generation to have the opportunity to do something about it.”

UCC connects startups to free legal advice

01 Dec 2015

UCC has become the first university in Ireland to offer free legal information to startups with the launch of its new IT Law Clinic.

UCC to award scholarships to outstanding students

26 Nov 2015

UCC President Dr Michael Murphy and UCC’s Senior Vice-President Academic and Registrar, Professor Caroline Fennell will award Quercus Entrance Scholarships to 77 students this evening (Thursday, November 26).

€7.5m for APC research

27 Nov 2015

The APC Microbiome Institute at UCC is delighted to announce a €7.5m investment by Science Foundation Ireland and AbbVie for a five-year research collaboration in the area of Crohn’s disease.

Cork life in 1916?

23 Nov 2015

What do the letters of 1916 reveal about life in Cork in that period? Local communities around Ireland are invited to have their 1916 family letters digitised for posterity

British Ambassador to speak on EU at UCC event

23 Nov 2015

The British Ambassador to Ireland, Dominick Chilcott, will speak on the UK’s EU policy and the forthcoming UK EU membership referendum at an event at University College Cork on Tuesday 24^th November.

Boole celebrated at Chennai symposium

20 Nov 2015

UCC, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) today celebrated the enormous contributions made by George Boole to technological society at a day-long symposium at the IIT-M campus in Chennai.