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).
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Call for Tax on SSDs
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Get Sorted for the UCC Open Day
06 Oct 2015Ahead 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).
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Olympians honoured at UCC
05 Oct 2015University College Cork had the pleasure of honouring three Olympic athletes recently on their return from the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015.
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UNESCO Learning City Award for Cork
02 Oct 2015Cork City is to receive a UNESCO Learning City Award at the UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities in Mexico City. UCC is one of four partners in the Cork Learning City initiative.
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Partnership aims to make pregnancy safer
01 Oct 2015The 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.
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#MeetUCC: The girl who lived
01 Oct 2015Storyteller, 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.
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Playing video games in classrooms is ‘logical’
30 Sep 2015The 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.
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UCC "seed-bed" for poets
30 Sep 2015The 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.
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UCC makes finals of Web Awards 2015
28 Sep 2015UCC has made the finals of the forthcoming Web Awards 2015 in two categories, 'Most Influential Irish Website Ever' and 'Best Education and Third Level Website'.
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Easter Rising Roadshow arrives in Tralee
25 Sep 2015The 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.
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