2015 Press Releases
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Life-saving legislation announced
15 Oct 2015
New laws announced today by the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar have been warmly welcomed by two UCC health experts.
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UCC named The Sunday Times University of the Year
14 Oct 2015
University College Cork (UCC) has been named The Sunday Times University of the Year for a record-breaking fourth time.
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Call for Tax on SSDs
08 Oct 2015
Researchers at the Health Research Board Centre for Health and Diet Research have announced their support for a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened drinks (SSDs).
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Get Sorted for the UCC Open Day
06 Oct 2015
Ahead of the next UCC Open Day on 10 October, Deputy Admissions Officer Danielle Byrne offers the perfect guide (and yes, it involves the Lords of Strut and Harry Potter).
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Olympians honoured at UCC
05 Oct 2015
University College Cork had the pleasure of honouring three Olympic athletes recently on their return from the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015.
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Partnership aims to make pregnancy safer
01 Oct 2015
The INFANT Centre (Irish Centre for Foetal and Neonatal Translational Research) at University College Cork, Bioscreen Health, laya healthcare and IBM have launched the ‘LEANBH’ project in the Cork University Maternity Hospital today, designed to make pregnancy safer.
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#MeetUCC: The girl who lived
01 Oct 2015
Storyteller, social entrepreneur and foodie. In a #Startupirl themed #MeetUCC, Dentistry student and Quercus Scholar Sarah Jameel discusses life at Hogwarts, Food Beyond Borders, a shout-out from Jamie Oliver and snorkeling with sharks.
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Playing video games in classrooms is ‘logical’
30 Sep 2015
The Government should provide dedicated support to teachers to help them incorporate new technologies such as video games into their lessons, according to a professor at University College Cork.
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UCC "seed-bed" for poets
30 Sep 2015
The winner of this year’s Patrick Kavanagh Award for a poet that has not yet published a book is John Mee, a professor in the Faculty of Law at UCC.
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UCC makes finals of Web Awards 2015
28 Sep 2015
UCC has made the finals of the forthcoming Web Awards 2015 in two categories, 'Most Influential Irish Website Ever' and 'Best Education and Third Level Website'.
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