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The latest news from the world of STEM in UCC, focusing on cutting edge research from our distinguished academic staff, undergraduate and postgraduate student achievements and academic updates for our current students.
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Latest News

23 Apr 2025
UCC Dietetic Students Awarded Prestigious Community Scholarships
Six MSc Human Nutrition and Dietetics students at University College Cork have been awarded full scholarships to cover their tuition fees, thanks to a generous €110,442 donation from the Community Nutrition & Dietetic Service, Cork and Kerry.
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09 Apr 2025
Innovation and Commercialisation Showcase
This event held in the Aula Maxima on 7 April provided researchers with valuable insights into commercialising their innovations in health, medicine, engineering, and food science. It featured inspiring case studies on commercialisation and offered attendees the opportunity to network with their colleagues.
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08 Apr 2025
Accelerating Potential - How UCC can Maximise Associate Membership of CERN
Founded in 1954, CERN hosts the largest engineering and physics experiment on the planet, covering >550 acres on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.
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![October 2021, during the Covid pandemic, the team of material scientists and palaeontologists [left to right: V. Rossi (UCC), M. Gerken (Städel Museum), M. Colombo and B. Thybusch (TU Darmstadt), T. Lehmann (Senckenberg)] set up the Messel fossils before scanning. (©SGN; Photographer A. Vogel)](/en/media/academic/sefs/news/MesselFossilNew_800x400.jpg)
07 Apr 2025
Messel fossils under X-rays: a new tool to illuminate the anatomy of fossils in museum and research collections
An international team of scientists from Ireland and Germany has applied for the first time a novel mobile X-ray imaging instrumentation on fossil animals from the Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Frankfurt, Germany.
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