Articles
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Trinity success in 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships awards
Eight Trinity research proposals secured funding under the recently announced 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships results.
25 Mar 2024
Awards and Funding|Research
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Trinity chemistry student, Áine Coogan, joins prestigious CAS Future Leaders™ Program
The unique programme provides early-career scientists with leadership training and connections to peers from around the world.
25 Mar 2024
Awards and Funding|Science|Students
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Virtual meetings can boost well-being and performance, study finds
Dr Wladislaw Rivkin, an Associate Professor at Trinity Business School, led the research which entailed two comprehensive daily studies during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns.
20 Mar 2024
Business|Research
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Genetic secrets from 4,000-year-old teeth illuminate the impact of changing human diets over the centuries
Researchers from Trinity have recovered remarkably preserved microbiomes from two teeth dating back 4,000 years, found in an Irish limestone cave. Genetic analyses of these microbiomes reveal major changes in the oral microenvironment from the Bronze Age to today.
27 Mar 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Trinity Tree of the Month – Japanese Cherry
This month we are featuring one of Trinity’s most photographed trees, our famous Japanese Cherry tree, or Prunus ‘Shogetsu.’ Its Latin name means moonlight on the pines, or pine tree, in Japanese.
27 Mar 2024
Sustainability
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Trinity co-hosts Women in STEMM Summit 2024
The resounding success of the summit co-hosted by the School of Physics underscores the importance of fostering diversity and inclusivity in STEMM fields.
7 Mar 2024
Innovation|Research|Science
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Professor Gerry Hanna appointed to Chair of Clinical Oncology
Professor Hanna has been appointed to Chair of Clinical Oncology at Trinity College, the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute and St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network (SLRON). He takes up his post next month.
27 Mar 2024
Health
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Researchers use willow trees to revolutionise wastewater treatment in rural Ireland
In a groundbreaking initiative, researchers from the Environmental Engineering group in Trinity’s School of Engineering have embarked on a mission to transform wastewater treatment in rural Ireland.
31 Mar 2024
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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I spy with my speedy eye – scientists discover speed of visual perception ranges widely in humans
The work suggests some people have an innate advantage in certain settings where response time is crucial, such as in ball sports, or in competitive gaming.
1 Apr 2024
Research|Science
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Good Name, Social Belonging and the Reform of Irish Defamation Law
The Inaugural Lecture of Prof Neville Cox, Professor of Law and Morality (2021), will take place on Tuesday 9th April at 6pm in the Public Theatre.
3 Apr 2024
Society
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Prof. Ann Carlos named as recipient of inaugural Alice Murray Award
Professor Ann Carlos, University of Colorado, has been announced as the recipient of the inaugural Alice Murray Award, which is administered by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH).
3 Apr 2024
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All female reboot of Raphael’s ‘School of Athens’ fresco
An art project depicting a full-scale re-enactment of Raphael’s School of Athens fresco with an all-women cast has been devised by the art collective Na Cailleacha and staged in collaboration with Trinity’s History of Art and Architecture Department in the Museum Building.
6 Apr 2024
Arts|Culture|Research|Society
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This philosophical theory can help you stop taking criticism personally
Making a distinction between “who” we are and “what” we are can help you stop taking criticism personally writes Samantha Fazekas, Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, in The Conversation.
4 Apr 2024
Research|Society
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Research offers insight into the future understanding of MS and its treatments
Trinity scientists have developed a novel test - using an existing diagnostic procedure as its basis - that has the potential to be applied in clinical trials that target the Epstein Barr Virus.
4 Apr 2024
Health|Research
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Trinity Global has won a Bronze Athena Swan award
Trinity Global is the first professional unit in Trinity and Ireland to achieve an Athena Swan award.
4 Apr 2024
Awards and Funding
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Trinity College Dublin Instagram Competition: Win a T-Ball 2024 Ticket
Terms and Conditions for the Trinity College Dublin Instagram Competition.
5 Apr 2024
Community|Students
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Na trí súile is géire
Tugann an saothar taighde seo le tuiscint go bhfuil buntáiste ó nádúr ag daoine áirithe i gcásanna ina bhfuil barrthábhacht le haga frithghnímh, mar shampla cluichí liathróide agus cluichíocht ríomhaireachta.
1 Apr 2024
Research|Science
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Computer scientists release new Pytch web-app to help students write their own programs
The new version of the free “Pytch” app is the fruit of a development process in which a community of young coders and educators around the world have worked to create and improve a fantastic resource for students and new programmers.
9 Apr 2024
Research|Science|Students
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New project aims to bring down the cost of offshore wind turbines
David Igoe, Assistant Professor in Trinity’s School of Engineering, will use a newly secured Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) grant of about €250,000 to support research into the effects of pile ageing for offshore wind foundation design.
10 Apr 2024
Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Hiding in plain sight! AI helps uncover hidden voices of women in early modern Ireland
A ground-breaking research project will harness powerful new digital technologies to uncover women’s experiences of extreme trauma and civil war in early modern Ireland.
11 Apr 2024
Culture|Research
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Trinity performs well in QS World University Subject Rankings 2024
Overall Trinity ranks for 40 subjects. Of these, 20 climbed the table, 3 dropped, 13 remained unchanged and 4 ranked for the first time.
10 Apr 2024
Awards and Funding|Students
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Patrick James Errington wins Pollard International Poetry Prize
Administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre at the School of English the prize is awarded to an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language
11 Apr 2024
Awards and Funding|Culture
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All the buzz of Mini Med Day 2024
The inaugural ‘TAP Primary School Med Day’ allowed primary school children to interactively explore what a career in medicine might look like.
11 Apr 2024
Community|Health|Society
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Research uncovers new reasons to target neutrophils for TB therapy
New research from Trinity team at St James's Hospital improves our understanding of how tuberculosis infection causes lung damage and how we might prevent this.
16 Apr 2024
Health|Research
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Colm O’Reardon delivers 2024 Henry Grattan Lecture
In his lecture, the Secretary General of the Department of Further and Higher Education focused on the transformative journey of Ireland's higher education landscape and the challenges facing the third level sector.
17 Apr 2024
Society
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Three-day festival celebrating Lifelong Learning takes place in Trinity
The festival aims to celebrate the inclusive learning possibilities in Dublin and to showcase the many organisations working to break barriers to education through a wide range of educational events.
17 Apr 2024
Community|Society
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Stellar surprise – astronomers uncover methane emission on a cold brown dwarf for the first time
Astronomers have pinpointed methane emission on a brown dwarf. Their discovery, which was a major surprise for such a cold, distant world, was made using the next-gen James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
17 Apr 2024
Research|Science
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Trinity Olympians exhibition opens
The new exhibition celebrating Trinity students, staff and alumni who have taken part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games will run in the Exam Hall on April 18-19 from 10-4pm.
18 Apr 2024
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School of Physics celebrates 300-year anniversary as inspiring Ernest Walton exhibition opens
Memorabilia belonging to Walton, one of Ireland’s most influential scientists, is on display in a special exhibition in the Library as the School of Physics celebrates its tercentenary with a series of engaging events, many of which are open to the public.
18 Apr 2024
Research|Science
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Scoil na Fisice i gColáiste na Tríonóide ag ceiliúradh 300 bliain a bunaithe
Tá cuimhneacháin spreagúla a bhaineann le Ernest Walton, duine de na heolaithe is mó tionchar in Éirinn, le feiceáil i dtaispeántas speisialta i Leabharlann Choláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath agus Scoil na Fisice ag ceiliúradh 300 bliain a bunaithe, le sraith d’imeachtaí tarraingteacha, a bhfuil go leor acu oscailte don phobal.
18 Apr 2024
Research|Science