PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

Foreword
UCC at a Glance
Academic Developments
Teaching and Learning
Research
College Reports:
Arts, Celtic
Studies and Social
Sciences
Business and Law
Medicine and Health
Science, Engineering and
Food Science
Events
Student Experience
Sports and Recreation
Buildings and Estates
Cork University Press
Finance
Governing Body
IRIS Appendix
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February 2010: UCC was proud
to become the first third-level
educational institution in the world
to be accredited with the prestigious
international ‘Green Flag’ award.
Pictured raising the flag were (l-r):
Jan Eriksen, President, Foundation
for Environmental Education;
students Mirjam Hirzel; Hazel
Smyth; Darren Reidy; John Gormley
TD, Minister for the Environment;
Charles Stanley-Smith, Chairman,
An Taisce; Maria Kirrane; Dr Michael
Murphy, President, UCC and Mark
Poland, Director of Buildings and
Estates, UCC
February 2010: UCC marks
a milestone in doctoral
education – in 2009/2010,
for the first time, over
1,000 doctoral students
were registered in UCC.
This number has more
than doubled since 2003,
with students from all over
the world now studying
for doctoral degrees in
almost every discipline.
(l-r): Natasha Underhill
(PhD Government);
Professor Alan Kelly, Dean
of Graduate Studies and
Markus Belz (PhD Food and
Nutritional Sciences)