Pierce Law Summer Programs Blog » history http://www.piercelaw.edu/summerblog IPSI, CHIPSI, eLSI Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:24:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 get to know ucc http://www.piercelaw.edu/summerblog/2009/07/get-to-know-ucc/ http://www.piercelaw.edu/summerblog/2009/07/get-to-know-ucc/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:07:59 +0000 lbozonie http://www.piercelaw.edu/summerblog/?p=66 University College Cork

University College Cork

I’ll admit that I didn’t really know a lot about the place that eLSI was taking place at prior to arriving in Cork.  But University College Cork (UCC) is actually quite a big school–there are over 15,000 students!

Other fun facts about UCC:

  • It was founded in 1845
  • It is said that St. Finbarr (the patron Saint of Cork)  founded a monastery and school in in 6th century on the same land that UCC stand on now.
  • It receives over 74 million Euro a year in research funding
  • And George Boole (the father of Boolean logic) used to teach at UCC

Kind of neat to have all that at the same school that I’m taking classes at.

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