UCC Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate Mary Hurley has been awarded the prestigious title of Engineer of the Year by Engineers Ireland, the professional membership body for engineers.

Ten UCC STEM students are set to receive scholarships as part of the Huawei Ireland ‘TECH4HER’ programme which offers a total of €90,000 annually in financial awards broken down across three universities to eligible female students studying STEM subjects.

Three BE Energy Engineering students have received scholarships of €2,000 from renewable energy company Statkraft. 

Professor Gerard Killeen delivered his inaugural professorial lecture entitled "Career adventures with some of the world’s most dangerous animals and pathogens: An African-centred personal perspective" at a special event in UCC on 29 November. Professor Killeen is AXA Research Chair in Applied Pathogen Ecology, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences/Environmental Research Institute (ERI).

Dell Technologies has been recognised by UCC for its contribution to the education, research, and development of electronic engineers at the university. The company's donation of high-end computing and data storage equipment enables UCC’s Embedded Systems research group in the School of Engineering and Architecture to rapidly accelerate research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

MaREI - the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine at UCC, has won the ‘SFI Engaged Research of the Year Award 2022’ for the Dingle Peninsula 2030 initiative.

Staff from the School of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) were recently honoured with Long Service Awards from UCC to celebrate their service to the university.

The crown-of-thorns sea star native to the Red Sea has been given the name 'Acanthaster benziei' in honour of Professor John Benzie, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), UCC.

Ciara Millerick is this year’s recipient of the Science, Engineering and Food Science Quercus University Scholarship, awarded for academic excellence in her examination results.

Congratulations to Environmental Sciences (School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences) graduate Erin O’Driscoll who was awarded the prize for best ESAI Level 8 Undergraduate project of the Year 2021/22 by the Environmental Science Association of Ireland (ESAI).