UCC engineers have ingeniously synthesised music using the energy output from 16 miniaturised wind turbines, combined with the latest advances in Internet of Things (IoT) technology and music composition rules.
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News 2021
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LISTEN: Wind turbine 'orchestra' performs unique music composition
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UCC ranked as one of the most ‘sustainable universities’ in the world
15 Dec 2021An international ranking which examines sustainability practices in universities across the world, has ranked UCC at eighth, the only Irish university to make the top 10 of the ‘greenest universities’ in the world. UCC was ranked at ninth in the annual world ranking last year.
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UCC shellfish project to receive government funding
09 Dec 2021A UCC project focused on improving the sustainability of the Irish shellfish industry is set to receive significant funding under the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s 2021 call for research proposals.
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UCC STEM researchers recognised in Irish awards
09 Dec 2021Researchers from the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science have been recognised in the annual Irish Research Council (IRC) Researcher of the Year Awards, which recognise the very best of IRC’s funded researchers who are making highly significant and valuable contributions to knowledge, society, culture, or innovation.
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Tyndall’s MagIC technology to have lasting environmental impact
08 Dec 2021Professor Cian Ó Mathúna, a world-leading engineering scientist has been named the recipient of two major international awards celebrating innovative technology created in Ireland, which could have a lasting environmental impact.
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WATCH: UCC researchers' journey to COP26
06 Dec 2021UCC, as the only Irish university with official observer status at the United Nations COP26 conference, sent a delegation of researchers and students to the global summit in Glasgow in November. The delegation made a decision to travel by boat, train and electric car rather than flying, which has a much greater carbon footprint per passenger.
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Huawei's 'TECH4HER’ programme offers scholarships to UCC STEM students
02 Dec 2021Ten UCC students are set to benefit from Huawei Ireland's ‘TECH4HER’ Scholarship Programme which offers financial awards to eligible female students studying STEM subjects.
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Dr Emanuel Popovici awarded Institution of Civil Engineers' Reed and Mallik Medal
01 Dec 2021Congratulations to Dr Emanuel Popovici, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, who is among a group of Irish researchers to win the prestigious Reed and Mallik Medal in Urban Design and Planning in the ICE Publishing Awards 2021.
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Brian Corbett, Tyndall National Institute receives prestigious award from Institute of Physics
29 Nov 2021Brian Corbett, a world-leading researcher from Tyndall National Institute, UCC and IPIC, the SFI Research Centre for Photonics, has been awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize.
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Surviving seeds from Hiroshima to be planted in UCC
25 Nov 2021Amongst the only living things to survive the detonation of a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima in 1945 were 200-year-old trees, now their seeds will be planted in Ireland, with the eventual trees being made available to local communities across the country.
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