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).

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).

University College Cork had the pleasure of honouring three Olympic athletes recently on their return from the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 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.

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.

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.

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.

The School of History, UCC, Kerry County Council and Kerins O’Rahilly GAA club, Tralee, are pleased to announce that that an ‘Easter Rising Roadshow’ will be held in Tralee next week. 

The beautiful music of blind harper Turlough O’Carolan might have been lost forever had it not been for Edward Bunting who transcribed the music at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792.  

The UCC Executive MBA has become one of the first programmes in Ireland to give each of its students an Apple iPad Mini, to enable team interaction beyond the lecture room.