Given competing demands for limited funds, how do health services decide which health care activities to fund?

The inaugural European Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (EuroSoTL2015), which was held in UCC recently, attracted over 300 delegates.

Dr Linda Connolly, Director of the Institute for Social Science in the 21^st Century is Director of the Merriman Summer School 2015, the theme of which is Love and Marriage revisited.

Fergus Shanahan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCC & Director of the APC Microbiome Institute has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science at UCD.  

Read on for a press and social media round-up of all the colourful coverage from the UCC Honorary Conferrings 2015, which celebrated Nicholas Fox Weber, Joseph Walsh and Don O'Neill.

Enterprising secondary school students are leaving the classroom behind to embark on a business bootcamp at UCC as part of the Student Enterprise Awards Programme through the Local Enterprise Offices.

For the first time, copies of UCC’s annual alumni magazine will be distributed simultaneously as an insert in the Irish Examiner and Irish Times on Friday, 5 June.

UCC’s Green Flag will fly proudly on June 5 to mark World Environment Day (WED), with the university, 2nd in the world for sustainability, set to go green after dark.

Having won in 2014 for best social media engagement, UCC is again a front runner at the 2015 national Social Media Awards.

UCC’s performance in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015 has reinforced its position as a leading university internationally, with 13 subject areas featuring in the top tier globally.