A landmark new nationally-coordinated initiative spearheaded by UCC is bringing together higher education and multiple industry and enterprise partners to drive climate action and environmental sustainability through new educational programmes.

UCC has awarded Honorary Doctorates in Science to Dr France Córdova and Mr Eoin O'Driscoll at the recent Spring conferring ceremonies.

Congratulations to UCC Microbiology graduate Professor Martin Tangney who was one of the trailblazing alumni recently honoured with a UCC Alumni Achievement Award. These awards are one of the highest accolades given by the university.

The World’s most-consulted university ranking has placed UCC as number one in Ireland, and in the top 100 internationally for Agriculture and Forestry

Zeinab Shaban is a PhD student at Tyndall National Institute and is one of the many women who ‘gown up’ daily to work in Tyndall's state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities.

Climate change is a global emergency. In the wake of COP26, it is more evident than ever that the world needs to take radical action to tackle this crisis. To that end, the University of Plymouth and University College Cork have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join forces in establishing a Post-COP26 Doctoral Training Partnership.

Professor Dimitra Psychogiou, a global expert in RF front-end technologies has been appointed to the position of Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture. She will also assume the role of Head of Group for Advanced Radio Frequency (RF) Technologies at the Tyndall National Institute.

UCC researchers are behind the construction of a striking new 'blade bridge' that crosses the soon-to-be-opened greenway between Youghal and Midleton, Co. Cork. The bridge is just the second of its kind in the world.  The blades used in the project were decommissioned from a wind farm in Belfast avoiding nearly 800 kilograms of CO2 emissions that would have occurred if steel girders had been used. Re-Wind, the research network that spearheaded the project, is a collaboration between the MaREI research centre, UCC, and partners in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United States.

A new website showcasing UCC's natural collections has been designed to share these extraordinary specimens to a wider audience. The collections are housed within the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) and the digitised specimens form part of a vast zoological and geological collection, over 5,000 in total, used as teaching aids and displays to foster a love of learning and an appreciation for our extraordinary natural world.

Professor Ruth Massey has secured a highly competitive SALI Professorship in Microbiome and Health Sciences, bringing her globally-recognised Microbial Pathogenicity expertise to Ireland, funded by the Irish Higher Education Authority.