On 25th September, Taoiseach Micheal Martin visited Tyndall National Institute, one of Europe's leading ICT research centres.

Professor O'Halloran has served as Deputy President and Registrar since 2018 and assumes the role of Interim President immediately for a period of one year.

On 25 February, UCC's new Hub played host to the winners of the 56th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

Cormac Harris and Alan O'Sullivan, both aged 16, fourth year students from Colaiste Choilm, Cork, accompanied by their teacher Karina Lyne, presented their project "A statistical investigation into the prevalence of gender stereotyping in 5-7 year olds and the development of an initiative to combat gender bias."

On February 10, in the Atrium of UCC's new Hub, Ryan Tubridy was interviewed by 2nd Year Arts student Matthew Moynihan before engaging in dialogue with the large crowd of students who gathered for the event.

The Scottish Saltire was flown over the UCC Quad on February 6 in honour of a visit from Mr John Webster of Scotland House, Dublin.

The 21st Annual Philip Monahan Memorial Lecture was delivered by Fr Peter McVerry on 29 January, 2020, in Boole 4.

UCC was delighted to welcome Colum McCann to read at the first event of the 2020 School of English's reading series in late January.

We were delighted to welcome Ireland's Ambassador to China, H.E. Mr Eoin O'Leary, back to his native Cork, and to UCC in particular, in early 2020.

Jessica Militante (Choctaw Ireland Scholar) and Minhal Ahmed (Mitchell Scholar) visited the President's Office on Wednesday 6 November.

UCC celebrated the 150th year of the birth of Gandhi by planting a native oak tree in his memory.

The ISS21 (Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century) Strategic Plan 2019 - 2024 was officially launched in the Aula Maxima on Monday, November 4.

On October 24, the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor John Finucane, gave a public lecture at University College Cork's Centre for Executive Education at Lapp's Quay. 

Wednesday, 25 September, saw the President being presented with a copy of the Air to St Finbarr framed sheet music.

UCC hosted the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland on 23 September.

President Patrick O'Shea and Research Support Services hosted a coffee morning in the North Wing Council Room on Tuesday, 3 September.

Summer 2019 sees UCC host its fortieth International Summer School in Irish Studies. 

MaREI hosted the French Ambassador HE Mr Sephane Creuzat on Friday, 5 July.

The first of an annual series of lectures in honour of Myrtle Allen took place, in line with the launch of UCC's Postgraduate Diploma in Irish Food Culture in Adult Continuing Education and the Department of Folklore and Ethnology

Richard Bruton TD visited UCC in relation to the Climate Action Plan on Friday, June 21.

UCC's research centres APC Microbiome, MaREI and IPIC were announced as three of six SFI centres to receive funding from the Government. 

The announcement of UCC President Emeritus Professer Michael B. Murphy as newly elected President of the EUA was a source of enormous pride for UCC, Cork and Ireland.

All over Cork on 5th May community events took place to encourage neighbours to engage with each other. I was delighted to be invited to by local residents to participate in Connaught Avenue's interaction.

In line with our student-centred Academic Strategy, we continue to promote excellence in sport and its full integration into the academic life of the university. 

UCC hosted a delegation from the Irish Caucus in the California State Legislature on Friday, 26 July.

June 7 saw UCC awarding honorary degrees to Rena Buckley, Siobhan Talbot, Professor Gerry Boyle, Daragh Hogan and Marty Meehan.

Vice Governor of Jiangsu and delegation were welcomed to UCC on Friday, 21 June. 

Sunday, 25 October, marked the centenary of the death of former Cork Lord Mayor, Terence MacSwiney. MacSwiney died in Brixton Prison, where he had been on hunger strike for 74 days.

The vellum manuscript known as The Book of Lismore (Leabhar Meic Carthaigh Riabhaigh) created at Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, for Finghin Mac Cartaigh, Lord of Carbery (1478 - 1505) is rightly regarded as one of the Great Books of Ireland.

On 30 December 2020, UCC celebrates the 175th anniversary of its establishment. On that date in 1845, royal letters patent granted charters to Queen's College, Cork, and to its sister colleges at Belfast and Galway. Throughout the current academic year, in which we continue to respond to unprecedented challenges, we will also reflect on this significant milestone through the theme of 'Reconnection'. We wish to reconnect with our past and our staff, students and graduates as part of our evolving role as a dynamic and vibrant regionally-placed university with global impact.

University College Cork has been ranked as one of the most sustainable universities in the world. The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking, which examines sustainability practices in universities across the world and examines their work in reducing carbon footprint and helping combat climate change, has ranked UCC at ninth, the only Irish university to make the top 10 of the ‘greenest universities’ in the world.