The Marine Institute, with University College Cork, have released the Irish Deep Seabed Geomorphological Map - now available on the Irish Marine Atlas – significantly expanding the high-resolution mapping of the features of Ireland's seabed.

Professor J.C. Séamus Davis, School of Physics at University College (UCC) has been awarded the 2026 Michael Faraday Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics (IOP), one of the most prestigious honours in science. 

The annual Motorola Solutions Internship Showcase 2026 highlighted an impressive collection of emerging tech talent as student interns from University College Cork (UCC) and Munster Technological University (MTU) gathered to present their industry achievements.

Ireland’s research capacity is expanding through a unique engagement between an Irish university and the pharmaceutical industry, involving the high-end drug discovery space, and a new partnership between UCC and Pfizer.

University College Cork (UCC) was recognised as a First Champion of the European Water Academy at its official launch in Brussels on 21 September 2026.

The arts, cultural and creative sectors can act as powerful catalysts for climate action, changing how people understand, engage with and act on climate change, new research from University College Cork (UCC) has found.

Researchers at Tyndall National Institute have contributed to a major international breakthrough, demonstrating a new class of programmable microchips that could help enable the next generation of 6G wireless communications.

Researchers from University College Cork (UCC) and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have helped make advanced biodiversity modelling tools more accessible to practitioners worldwide through a free international training programme that attracted more than 1,600 participants from 125 countries.

Prof. Brian Ó Gallachóir, Associate Vice-President of Sustainability at University College Cork, writes that while our use of fossil fuels has decreased, we do not yet have a target timeframe in Ireland for fully phasing-out fossil fuels.

The decarbonsiation of the worldwide shipping sector - responsible for 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions - is possible researchers have found, but none of the fuel production pathways are perfect, and none are cheap.