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UCC’s Green Campus among best in world
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Pat McCabe to talk site-specific theatre
08 Feb 2016Author and playwright Pat McCabe will deliver a talk this Wednesday evening on his experience of being sent to live in a mansion on the edge of Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan for a month in 2014, tasked with writing an original television play set in the location.
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UCC advances stem cell research
09 Feb 2016More than a decade ago the discovery of stem cells was thought to revolutionise medicine with the hope that tissues and indeed organs might be replaced in humans.
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Phenomenal response to 1916 initiatives
11 Feb 2016Cork University Press has published The 1916 Irish Rebellion, the companion book to RTE’s three-part documentary series 1916, the first episode of which proved a huge hit with critics.
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Shakespeare and love
12 Feb 2016William Shakespeare has long been associated with love. His poem “Venus and Adonis”, about the goddess of love and her ill-fated infatuation with a beautiful youth, was one of the great literary successes of the Tudor era, and the popularity of Romeo and Juliet has helped ‘Romeo’ to become shorthand for a passionate lover or sweetheart.
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CCAE shortlisted for Architect of the Year prize
16 Feb 2016A graduate design unit established at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE) has been named as a finalist in the BD Architect of the Year Awards 2016.
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Spin-out Tucana Health Ltd to create jobs in Cork
16 Feb 2016Tucana Health Ltd (Tucana), a spin-out from the APC Microbiome Institute in University College Cork, is to build a new research team in Cork.
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Students hailed for achievements on placement
17 Feb 2016UCC’s College of Business and Law is set to host its Work Placement Awards ceremony this evening, to recognise and reward exceptional student performance on placement.
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Psychobiotic Revolution to treat depression to take off ‘within five years’
19 Feb 2016Psychobiotics will be available within the next five years for treating depression and anxiety disorders, a UCC professor of psychiatry has predicted.
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UCC Professor to improve care for self-harm patients
22 Feb 2016The Health Research Board (HRB) has appointed Professor Ella Arensman of UCC and the National Suicide Research Foundation as one of four new Research Leaders.
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