University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Chemistry has been featured in a new handbook published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), highlighting leading efforts to advance sustainability in chemical research and education. 

Staff from UCC's School of Computer Science and Information Technology coached the Irish team that competed at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI) 2026, held in Cesenatico, Italy, from 12–18 May.

Two food science PhD students with a concept to help people resist food cravings and a team of engineers and scientists developing next generation space propulsion systems were named UCC’s Student Entrepreneurs of the Year at an event held at University College Cork on 21 May.

Creating industry-ready simulation tools for the semiconductor industry and advancing the understanding of how ageing increases an individual’s risk of Parkinson’s disease are amongst the five University College Cork (UCC) projects to receive a collective €4.1m funding under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme.

The School of Chemistry, University College Cork (UCC) has achieved their first Silver Athena Swan Award. 

In 2026, three academics from the School of Engineering and Architecture, University College Cork (UCC) are being honoured with prestigious “Qualcomm Faculty recognition awards”. 

Student innovation was celebrated on 15 April, as AxisBIC presented its annual Entrepreneurship Award at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork.

Peatlands are increasingly central to climate action in Ireland, yet some of the most basic questions about how they function, recover, and respond to change remain unresolved. 

Scientists at University College Cork (UCC) have achieved a significant breakthrough in sustainable plastic recycling by engineering baker’s yeast to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET), one of the world’s most widely used plastics.