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UCC Research & Innovation Awards - 180 Years of Impact


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20 Mar 2025

From Ideas to Impact: Join us at Innovation Week

UCC's Innovation Week will take place this year from April 7th - 11th. The aim of Innovation Week is to showcase some of the excellent innovations from across the UCC ecosystem, and to encourage UCC students, graduates, and researchers alike to think about the different ways that their ideas and research can be transformed to create economic and societal impact.
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18 Mar 2025

The Future of Sustainable Food Production

Dr Gaurav Rajauria is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Food Fermentation in the School of Microbiology and the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences.
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18 Mar 2025

Research to secure and protect devices from malware attacks receives funding

The creation of first-generation malware detection models that are practical and effective for ‘internet of things (IoT)’ devices is to be investigated in a project led by University College Cork (UCC) researchers.
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Photo (L-R): Professor Sarah Culloty (Head of the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science at UCC), Professor Barry O'Sullivan (Director of the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC’s Futures in AI and Data Analytics), Professor V.S. Subrahmanian (Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow and the Head of Northwestern Security & AI Lab), Professor John O'Halloran (UCC President), Professor Ursula Kilkelly (Vice President for Global Engagement at UCC).
13 Mar 2025

Northwestern University and University College Cork establish key partnership on Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, and National Security

The Northwestern Security and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (NSAIL), under the leadership of Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, and the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC Futures on AI and Data Analytics at University College Cork, under the leadership of Professor Barry O’Sullivan, have entered into a partnership to support collaboration in the area of Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, National Security.
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