A UCC graduate and student captured two of the top awards at Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur  competition in 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 (CCB) last night honoured UCC in two categories at its annual #CorkNeedsYou Cork Conference Ambassadors Awards.

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

UCC President Dr Michael Murphy and UCC’s Vice President for Teaching and Learning, Professor John O’Halloran, will award Quercus Talented Students’ Scholarships to 17 students this evening (Tuesday, December 1).

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

An Environmental Research Institute (ERI) delegation, led by Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir, is attending COP21 in Paris. Representatives from 195 countries will meet to reach a new international climate agreement. 

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).

University College Cork has announced that it is to provide a free service to local businesses to advertise temporary and part-time work in addition to launching a jobs portal for students seeking such positions.

A molecule developed by scientists at UCC, derived from the berries of the Bloodhorn tree, has shown “a very significant reduction in tumour size,” particularly leukaemia cancer cells.