UCC honours science pioneers with honorary degrees

Local and global science education pioneers are to be awarded honorary doctoral degrees by University College Cork next week.

They include a 93-year-old nun who was central to the development of science teaching in Cork and nationally in the 1950s and 1960s.

The ongoing celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the George Boole — the former UCC maths professor whose ideas are credited as underpinning modern computer technology — sees a technological focus among the two international recipients selected to be conferred.