University College Cork (UCC) is pleased to advise that it has appointed Liz Jolly as its University Librarian.

• Cork International Film Festival and University College Cork present the premiere screening of Peggy, by the 2024/25 Lord Puttnam Scholars.
• The Puttnam Scholars Programme offers UCC students from across disciplines an opportunity to collaborate with Lord David Puttnam

• Vera Klute, Vanessa Jones, Gerry Davis and Julianne Guinee have been awarded the commission.
• Artists will depict women including Edna O’Brien, Joanne O’Riordan, and Nano Nagle who are connected to Munster and have contributed to the betterment of society.
• The 11 women were selected through a public call for nominations via University College Cork, and the artists were selected through an open call process run by Business to Arts.

Renowned academic, feminist and LGBT+ activist Ailbhe Smyth visited University College Cork this week to accept the University’s first Athena Swan Trailblazer Award.

• The Lord Mayor’s Reception recognised the contribution and value of Youth and Community Work education in UCC to the people of Cork and to the Cork community.
• Over 5,000 UCC Youth and Community Work graduates have gone on to lead, support, and advocate within youth, community, and voluntary organisations, as well as in public service across Cork and Ireland.
• The event will highlight UCC’s ongoing commitment to working in partnership with national and local community organisations to strengthen the community and voluntary sector.

• Students from Ireland’s prison-university education programme ‘Inside Out’ graduated at a ceremony.
• The pioneering programme saw students work together to debate university academic texts, draw on their own life experiences, and explore social inequalities and structural harms.
• This programme is the first of its kind in Ireland and is a collaboration between University College Cork, the Cork ETB Prison Education Unit and Cork Prison.

An innovative project to approach climate change communication has received funding at University College Cork (UCC).

• UCC workshop underscored storytelling and the arts as essential catalysts for effective climate communication and progress on the UN SDGs.
• Former UN Ambassador and co-founder of the 2030 SDG Agenda David Donoghue addressed the event.
• The workshop featured researchers from across UCC, research centres and partners including Met Éireann, Cork Chamber and the Glucksman.

At this week's conferrings UCC recognised founder, chairman and CEO of the O’Flynn Group Michael O'Flynn and renowned cerebral palsy (CP) advocate Lily Collison with honorary doctorates.

A new exhibition opens to the public today, which celebrates the 100 years of Ireland’s oldest university press, the Cork University Press at University College Cork (UCC). The exhibition will be formally opened today by Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Patrick O’Donovan, T.D. , with a launch address by Professor Emeritus of History, Tom Dunne.