Paul Kelleher, Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies Ireland Limited, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering by University College Cork.

This November, UCC joins the national celebration of 30 years of Science Week, an initiative led by Research Ireland that honours the spirit of curiosity, innovation, and scientific discovery.

Dr Sally O’Hanlon, Technical Officer for Physical Chemistry in UCC's School of Chemistry, has completed the prestigious 2025 Herschel Programme for Women in Technical Leadership.

Huge eight-metre-long skeletons of the only dinosaurs known to have existed on the island of Ireland are set to go on display to the public for the very first time, in a spectacular new exhibition of Irish fossils.  

On 18 October, 2025, County Cork students, Dylan Ó Muirí, Gráinne Ní Chróinín, and John Buckley were awarded a Naughton Foundation Scholarship worth €25,000 at a ceremony in Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin.

Postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and academics from around Europe took part in a week-long sustainability leadership programme at the Sustainability Institute Ellen Hutchins Building, University College Cork, from 13 to 17 October 2025. 

In a major advance for microbiology and industrial biotechnology, researchers have uncovered how bacteria activate a wide range of antiviral defences and how viruses in turn try to escape such defences. 

UCC’s Rocketry and Space Exploration Society (RSES) made an impressive debut at Mach-25, a rocketry competition held at Machrihanish Airbase in Scotland.