On 22 April, AxisBIC presented its annual Entrepreneurship Award to three outstanding undergraduate students from UCC’s School of Computer Science and Information Technology.

Six MSc Human Nutrition and Dietetics students at University College Cork have been awarded full scholarships to cover their tuition fees, thanks to a generous €110,442 donation from the Community Nutrition & Dietetic Service, Cork and Kerry.

This event held in the Aula Maxima on 7 April provided researchers with valuable insights into commercialising their innovations in health, medicine, engineering, and food science. It featured inspiring case studies on commercialisation and offered attendees the opportunity to network with their colleagues. 

Founded in 1954, CERN hosts the largest engineering and physics experiment on the planet, covering >550 acres on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

An international team of scientists from Ireland and Germany has applied for the first time a novel mobile X-ray imaging instrumentation on fossil animals from the Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Frankfurt, Germany.

University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Food and Nutritional Sciences (FNS) is honoured to be the first School within UCC to achieve a Silver Award, setting a benchmark for excellence in gender equality and diversity in higher education.

The Process and Chemical Engineering Awards took place on 24 March in the Aula Maxima. The event was sponsored by MSD with nine awards presented to fifteen recipients.

The prestigious Joe Gantly Prize in Engineering has been awarded this year to Éabha Keely, a Civil and Environmental Engineering student.

The Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE) at UCC/MTU, in collaboration with the Interreg Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) Programme, recently hosted two notable EU Interreg events at UCC. 

Maeve Cusack and Áine Murphy, graduates of the MSc in Dairy Process Technology, celebrated their conferring at University College Cork (UCC) on 25 March. This innovative employment based postgraduate programme is a collaboration between UCC and Kerry Group.