George Boole inspired the character Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind in Sherlock Holmes, Boole’s biographer Professor Des MacHale will tell an audience at UCC next week. 

UCC alumnus, Dr Fergal Barry of the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT), has been appointed President of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

The Irish Examiner and University College Cork (UCC) will host an online Q&A on Wednesday, 19 August, for students seeking instant answers to their CAO or going-to-college questions.

A Doctor’s Sword continues to edge out the competition. The film, which explores the extraordinary life of UCC graduate Dr Aidan MacCarthy, has received outstanding reviews, with several more cinemas taking it on.

UCC will host a gala screening of A Doctor’s Sword, which centres on the extraordinary life of graduate Dr Aidan MacCarthy, on 6 August ahead of the film's cinema release.

Áine Ryall, School of Law, has been appointed Vice-Chair of the An Bord Pleanála Review Group.  

UCC hosted a Horizon 2020 Industry Leadership Information Day to help companies seize the opportunities that Horizon 2020 provides and support the development of their R&D ambitions through collaboration with University researchers.

EirGrid, the operator of the national electricity grid, has awarded its annual prize to UCC’s top Masters graduate in Sustainable Energy.

In 1863, O’Donovan Rossa held a torchlit parade in solidarity with a Polish uprising against their Russian occupiers known as the January Rebellion which was re-enacted in Skibbereen recently.

A yogurt to help people live longer is just one of the projects being developed as part of IndieBio hosted by the School of Microbiology, UCC.  See media round up on Storify.