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UCC welcomes prospective students at 2019 Autumn Open Day
12 Oct 2019
Six thousand prospective students visited UCC on Saturday 12th October for the University’s Open Day. Held every year, the Open Day provides a wonderful opportunity to showcase all that makes UCC a great place to study.
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UCC Recrtuiment Fair attracts more than 100 companies
09 Oct 2019
UCC Graduate Recruitment Fair 2019 took place on Wednesday 9th October 2019 in the Mardyke Arena. This is the largest recruitment event of the year and is hosted by UCC Career Services. This year 114 graduate employers were available to meet with students and to offer career advice and job opportunities.
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New Graduate Attributes Programme launched at UCC
24 Sep 2019
University College Cork (UCC) today launched the Graduate Attributes Programme which will advance the development of students’ academic, specialist and technical competencies, equipping them with transferrable skills that can be applied in life-wide contexts.
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Professor John O’Halloran attends Future University in Egypt as honorary speaker at the inaugural graduation ceremony of the new pharmacy degree established under a FUE-UCC Cooperation Agreement.
22 Sep 2019
Professor John O’Halloran, Deputy President and Registrar UCC attended Future University in Egypt (FUE) as honorary speaker at the inaugural graduation ceremony of the graduates of the new pharmacy degree that was established under the 2014 FUE-UCC Cooperation agreement.
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UCC students and staff join millions around the world in Global Climate Strike
20 Sep 2019
On Friday 20th September students and staff of UCC convened in the Quad in support of the Global Strike for Climate. Prof Patrick O'Shea, president of UCC, dropped the Green Flag to half-mast in recognition of the fact that, although we are proud of our environmental achievements, there is more to be done.
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UCC rises to 250 - 300 band in QS Graduate Employability Rankings
18 Sep 2019
Today, the 2020 QS Graduate Employability Rankings were released and QS Quacquarelli Symonds have named the world's top 500 universities for nurturing graduate employability. UCC has climbed since last year from being in the 301-500 band to the 250-300 band.
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Welcome to our 2019 Quercus Scholars
06 Sep 2019
On Friday 6th of September, we welcomed the 6th intake of Quercus Scholars to UCC with a day long induction event hosted at Distillery House.
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Ronan and Paul's Rowing Success
07 Sep 2019
Paul O'Donovan and Ronan Byrne, both Quercus Sports Scholars, have achieved success at the Rowing World Championships, which took place in Linz, Austria from August 25th to September 1st. Ronan has also succeeded in winning Gold at the European U23 Rowing Championships, which took place in Greece from the 5th-8th of September.
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UCC among Irish colleges recognised for alcohol awareness efforts
28 Aug 2019
REACT (Responding to Excessive Consumption of Alcohol in Third Level) is a UCC led, joint initiative between the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), the Irish Student Health Association (ISHA) and UCC Health Matters.
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University College Cork signs Memorandum of Understanding with Kerry Education and Training Board
22 Jul 2019
Today, UCC signed an agreement with Kerry Education and Training Board (Kerry ETB) that will see both institutions working together to enhance opportunities for and engagement in outdoor education and training at Cappanalea, The National Centre for Outdoor Education and Training, which is based at Oulagh West, Caragh Lake, Killorglin, Co. Kerry.
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UCC Leading the Way on Good Governance
14 Jun 2019
UCC is the lead on the capacity building work package of the Erasmus funded UniGov project (Improving Governance Practices and Palestinian Higher Education Institutions) including all training activities such as designing the training modules and supervise the online, face-to-face training as well as the study visits activities.
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UCC International Dentistry Dinner, June 2019
13 Jun 2019
Congratulations to the Dentistry Class of 2019 on your examination results.
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Supporting Travellers in 2nd Level Education: Progress through Partnership
12 Jun 2019
The SOAR Project Travellers in Education assembly - Supporting Travellers in 2nd Level Education: Progress through Partnership sees key stakeholders working together to explore how best to support Travellers in second level education in Cork and Kerry.
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First Student Affairs Ireland Summit takes place at UCC
12 Jun 2019
The First Student Affairs Ireland Summit took place in UCC on the 11th and 12th of June. More than 400 delegates attended workshops and presentations on topics including included Student Success: Everybody's Business and Critical Incidents and Crisis Management.
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Awards Presented to Puttnam Scholars
07 Jun 2019
Professor John O’Halloran presented certificates to the inaugural Puttnam Scholars on Friday 7th June.
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The Australian Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Richard Andrews, was welcomed back to the University by Deputy President, Prof John O'Halloran this week.
30 May 2019
During his visit he visited the ERI Beaufort Building, the Headquarters of the SFI MaREI Centre to discuss further potential areas for collaboration and build upon recent success that sees the MaREI Centre partnering in the Australian Blue Economy Co-operative Research Centre (BE-CRC), led by the University of Tasmania.
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Presentation to Ireland U20 Grand Slam star & UCC Quercus Scholar, John Hodnett in advance of his departure to Argentina for the World Rugby U20 Championship.
29 May 2019
Deputy President & Registrar, Professor John O'Halloran, Irish Rugby, UCC Sport and Morgan Buckley, Director of Sport & Physical Activity at UCC today made a presentation to U20 rugby star John Hodnett, 1st Sports Studies & Physical Education student and Quercus scholar as he heads to Argentina to represent Ireland in the U20 Rugby World Cup next month.
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Big Friendly Guide to the European Union - Graduation 2019
28 May 2019
Deputy President & Registrar Professor John O'Halloran welcomed over 500 students, teachers and parents to the Devere Hall today, where he officiated at the 2019 BFGtoEU Graduation Ceremony, and made a presentation to guest speaker Rob Heffernan.
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Sara Ahmed speaks at UCC
16 May 2019
Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory, lesbian feminism, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism, gave a presentation at UCC on May 16th on Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work.
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2019 L’Oreal Unesco UK Ireland for Women in Science Fellowship Awards
14 May 2019
The Deputy President and Registrar Professor John O'Halloran has been a jury panel member for the L’Oréal-UNESCO UK & Ireland For Women in Science National Fellowships Programme for many years.
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7th ASEF Rectors’ Conference and Students’ Forum (ARC7)
13 May 2019
The Deputy President and Registrar addressed the 7th ASEF Rectors’ Conference and Students’ Forum (ARC7) in Bucharest on 13th April 2019. The conference theme was “Higher Education Taking Action Towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Perspectives from Asia and Europe” and Professor O’Halloran was invited to present at a working group on “Taking Action at Home: SDGs as Core Pillars of University Governance”.
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UCC's Graduate Studies Office launches new website
10 May 2019
The Graduate Studies Office is proud to announce the launch of its newly structured and designed website.
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Launch of Academic Policy Portal
03 May 2019
An online Academic Policy Portal has been launched to provide a single location for accessing the full range of academic policies at UCC.
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Mary Murphy wins UCC Student Entrepreneur of the Year
15 May 2019
Congratulations to Quercus Innovation/Entrepreneurship Scholar, Mary Murphy, who was named the winner of the 2019 UCC Student Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Tyndall Welcomes €8 Million in Disruptive Technologies Innovation Funding
01 May 2019
The Deputy President and Registrar met with Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys today as she visited the Tyndall National Institute at UCC to review Disruptive Technology Innovation Funding (DTIF) projects worth over €20 million and to welcome other significant funding wins at one of Europe’s leading technology research Institutes.
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UCC hosts the 2019 Annual International Workshop on UI GreenMetrics
15 Apr 2019
UCC played host to the 2019 Annual International Workshop on UI GreenMetrics which addressed the theme of “Sustainable University in a Changing World: Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities.”
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UCC are biggest winners at Board of Irish College Societies Awards 2019
11 Apr 2019
UCC Societies were the biggest winners at this year’s Board of Irish College Societies (BICS) Awards taking home a whopping four awards - more than any other college or institute in Ireland.
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Launch of €3 million Fexco-UCC research collaboration
12 Apr 2019
FINTECHNEXT, a financial technology research collaboration project between UCC, Fexco and Science Foundation Ireland, was launched today by Paschal Donohue, Minister for Finance & Public Expenditure and Reform at Fexco Head Office in Killorglin, Co. Kerry.
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UCC Sports Star Awards 2019
09 Apr 2019
UCC’s top sports stars were honoured at the Sports Star Awards 2018/2019 in the River Lee Hotel on Tuesday 9th April, with personalities from the world of sport, coaches, parents, students, UCC Clubs Executive and UCC staff in attendance.
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Dion Davis addresses the launch of the first ever socio-economic impact report on the role universities play in the economy
04 Apr 2019
Dion Davis, a second year Professional Masters in Education (PME) student, was nominated by Olive Byrne, Head of Access & Participation, to speak at the launch of “Delivering for Ireland, An Impact Assessment of Irish Universities”. This is the first report by the Irish Universities Association on the role universities play in the economy and society, launched today at the Convention Centre Dublin.
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UCC ranks 21st in global University Impact Rankings 2019
03 Apr 2019
University College Cork is placed 21st in the world in Times Higher Education’s (THE) University Impact Rankings 2019.
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John Hodnett U20 - Six Nations Grand Slam Champion
15 Mar 2019
Congratulations to Ireland who were crowned U20 Six Nations Grand Slam Champions on Friday 15th March. The team included Quercus Sports Scholar, John Hodnett, in the number 8 position.
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UCC Works Award – Record number of students participate
20 Mar 2019
Professor John O’ Halloran, Deputy President and Registrar presented 426 students with 531 UCC Works Awards and Digital Badges at a packed ceremony in Devere Hall on the 20th March, 2019.
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Deputy President & Registrar Professor John O’Halloran presents Cork hurling legend Dónal Óg Cusack with the recently launched UCC Sports Strategy
07 Mar 2019
Dónal Óg Cusack was in UCC recently to launch the LGBT+ Allies scheme for staff. We were delighted to welcome him to UCC and took the opportunity to present him with a copy of our recently launched Sports Strategy Document.
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UCC launches new Sports Strategy
27 Feb 2019
Today, University College Cork launched a new Sports Strategy. This ambitios four-year strategy was launched by Olympic rowing hero Paul O’Donovan and athlete Mary Fitzgerald, who recently won three gold medals at the 2019 IWAS World Games.
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Congratulations to UCC GAA & UCC Soccer
23 Feb 2019
UCC have won three major sporting cups over the past month. The Collingwood Cup, The Sigerson Cup and The Fitzgibbon Cup.
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Mary Fitzgerald wins three gold medals
14 Feb 2019
Quercus Sports' Scholar, Mary Fitzgerald, won 3 gold medals at the 2019 IWAS World Games in the United Arab Emirates.
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UCC launches transformational Academic Strategy
04 Dec 2018
Today, University College Cork's first every Academic Strategy was launched by Deputy President & Registrar, Professor John O'Halloran. The new strategy aims to transform the UCC learning experience and has, at its heart, a Connected Curriculum.
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UCC shortlisted in Five Categories at The Education Awards 2019
03 Dec 2018
UCC has been shortlisted in five categories for the Education Awards 2019, which are part of the Business River network solution.
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Quercus Gala 2018
28 Nov 2018
This year's Quercus Gala took place in the Aula Maxima on November 28th, 2018.
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UCC Athena SWAN Departmental Bronze Awards
14 Nov 2018
In the recent Athena SWAN Charter awards-cycle, the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, School of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy, all received bronze departmental awards for their ongoing commitment to promoting good employment practices for women in science in higher education.
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Gold star rating for UCC from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
26 Sep 2018
University College Cork has become the first institution outside of North America to achieve a gold star rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). We now join Princeton, Cornell and UC Berkeley in receiving the highest standard, Gold ‘Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System’ (STARS) for excellence in sustainability.
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