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.

University College Cork (UCC) will roll out the red carpet on Friday, 5 June 2015 to welcome and honour three renowned creative minds at the pinnacle of their professions.

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.

On the eve of the 2015 UCC Honorary Conferrings, fashion designer Don O’Neill, furniture designer Joseph Walsh and cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber will take part in a creative conversation at the Glucksman.

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

UCC has this week been recognised as one of the leading universities worldwide for scientific research in the  CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015.

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.

UCC student Padraig O’Connor has won the An Post Student Marketing Campaign of the Year Award 2015.‌

Previously unpublished images, Victorian recipes and an insight into the personality of George Boole feature in the special edition George Boole Chronicles.

A third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused until 2050 according to expert Dr Christophe McGlade.