An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. has officially opened the UCC Beaufort Building in Ringaskiddy, which will provide Ireland with world-class infrastructure for renewable energy and maritime research to power the ‘blue economy’.

UCC and Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management (IIPMM) are collaborating on a Masters programme that has delivered €86m in savings to businesses over the last four years.

The MSc in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy programme recently had its first examination board as a collaborative programme between University College Cork and the Turning Point Training Institute (TPTI).

The School of Asian Studies at UCC has launched a new international, peer-reviewed online journal.

Professor Grace Neville, former Vice-President for Teaching and Learning at UCC, has been chairing an international committee responsible for evaluating projects bidding for a total of €12 million in funding.

The Blackstone Charitable Foundation today announced the first international expansion of its campus entrepreneurship programme, Blackstone LaunchPad, to Ireland. Ireland becomes the seventh Blackstone LaunchPad region, following the U.S. states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Montana, and California.

"I really regret researching the content of the course I’m studying during the application stage" – said nobody, ever!

Ahead of the CAO Change of Mind deadline (1 July), UCC is hosting a live online Q&A on Wednesday 24 June, from 3-4.30pm in partnership with the Irish Examiner and Pubble.

In the first edition of #MeetUCC, Commerce student and award-winning marketer Padraig O'Connor reflects on his UCC experience, the power of social media, the Super Bowl and doing what you love. 

Quantum computing will bring many advantages, and pose a few hurdles, an academic from the Tyndall National Institute at UCC will say at a lecture to commemorate the bicentenary of George Boole, the forefather of the Information Age.