College News
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Red-listed swifts return safely to Trinity’s Museum Building
The iconic, fast-flying birds nested in the building for many years before disappearing following a period of renovation, but the installation of bird calls to encourage the speedy swifts back has reaped rewards.
23 Jul 2021
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High COVID-19 infection rates in Northern Ireland increased cases in bordering Irish counties
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin analysed official statistics on confirmed COVID-19 cases on the island of Ireland for 52 weeks from March 2020.
21 Jul 2021
Research
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Trinity marine biologists support Save Our Shark campaign
Over 9,000 people have so far petitioned Government to afford legal protection to basking sharks in Irish waters, where these magnificent creatures spend time each year.
14 Jul 2021
Research
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Trinity Researchers Raise Grave Concerns for Palestinian Bedouins
"This research is so vital because without spotlighting the imminent forced displacement of the Bedouin, their very livelihoods will be further destroyed.”
8 Jul 2021
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Provost’s Trinity Excellence in Teaching Awards
The 20th anniversary of the awards was celebrated on June 29 in the Provost’s Garden. Congratulations to all the winners.
30 Jun 2021
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Provost’s PhD Project Awards 2020-21
The fourth round of the Provost’s PhD Awards were celebrated yesterday at a special reception in the Provost’s Garden. Congratulations to all the winners.
29 Jun 2021
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Trinity launches Ireland’s first distance learning MBA
As demand for remote work and study sets in for the long-run, Trinity Business School launches ‘four years in the making’ Flexible Executive MBA, only weeks after unveiling new state-of-the-art ‘Matrix Room.’
17 Jun 2021
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Tangent gets LaunchBox 2021 underway as 10 student entrepreneurship teams begin their journey
After an application period which saw overwhelming interest from enterprising students, 10 teams collectively representing 9 schools from across Ireland’s oldest university have been selected to participate.
16 Jun 2021
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Growing Up in Ireland: link between health and family circumstances
New Growing Up in Ireland research has found that most children get on very well with their parents and like their teachers, but their health and well-being are strongly linked to their family circumstances.
16 Jun 2021
Research
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Trinity announced as Basketball Ireland Centre of Excellence
Basketball Ireland announced Trinity College Dublin and Limerick Institute of Technology as the latest Basketball Ireland Centres of Excellence.
16 Jun 2021
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Dr Sheila Cannon wins Trinity’s Civic Engagement Award
Dr Cannon has worked for Trinity for the past five years. She has worked with and supported 80 social enterprises in Ireland and internationally in various ways through teaching, research, and engagement.
15 Jun 2021
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Trinity and ESRI launch MSc in Economic Policy for policy makers
The MSc in Economic Policy will provide students with a grounding in contemporary aspects of economic policy design and implementation and equip them to engage confidently in evidence-based economic policy making.
14 Jun 2021
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Trinity and Microsoft join forces to accelerate next-generation quantum technologies
Microsoft will provide significant funding to support PhD students working on cutting-edge quantum research at Trinity and the establishment of a female scholarship programme for Trinity’s MSc in Quantum Science and Technology
11 Jun 2021
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New Toolkit to Transform Collaborative Research Approaches
For more than 2 years, the EU-funded SHAPE-ID project at Trinity College Dublin has been working with European partners with a particular focus on how to strengthen the integration of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) in inter-and transdisciplinary research
10 Jun 2021
Research
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Astrophysicists bring partial solar eclipse to Irish public
There will be solar telescopes with cameras and you can join leading researchers live on YouTube for the watch party, which will showcase a close-up of the Sun so that we can see the eclipse as it happens.
9 Jun 2021
Research
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Trinity researchers team up with ONK Therapeutics to seek improved cancer therapies
The work will be led by Trinity's Dr David Finlay to optimise the metabolism and engineering of NK cells for improved cancer therapies.
8 Jun 2021
Research
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TCIN awarded Platinum Green Lab certifcation
We are excited to announce that Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) has been awarded Platinum Level Green Lab certification from My Green Lab, the first in Trinity and second in Ireland to achieve this status.
4 Jun 2021
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New book gives ‘Perspectives on the Person with Dementia and Family Caregiving in Ireland’
The newly published book is an introductory Irish guide that brings together local and international research to help dispel some of the myths and stigma surrounding dementia.
1 Jun 2021
Research
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Trinity student wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill judges’ highly commended award
Trinity's student Matthew Thomas wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill judges’ highly commended award for his essay 'Compromised: Lessons learned from the AIDS epidemic’.
27 May 2021
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Comhdháil lae ar líne in onóir do Damian McManus
“Táimid thar a bheith sásta go mbeidh togha na scoláirí linn chun ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar a bhfuil déanta ag an Ollamh McManus do léann na Gaeilge le breis is ceathracha bliain, mar thaighdeoir, mar léachtóir, mar eagarthóir agus, thar aon ní eile, mar chrann taca i gcónaí do scoláirí óga.”
21 May 2021
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Plean Bee – documentary examines how All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is reversing pollinator declines
Plean Bee, screens this Thursday, 20th May [World Bee Day], at 9:30 pm on TG4. It showcases the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, which was developed by a cross-sectoral group of stakeholders and co-founded by Jane Stout, Professor in Botany in Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences.
20 May 2021
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The return of the morning commute will ruin productivity, Trinity research reveals
New research from Wladislaw Rivkin at Trinity Business School, Fabiola Gerpott and Dana Unger demonstrates that commuting reduces productivity at work by draining mental energy, effecting our ability to fully focus on what we’re doing when we finally arrive at work.
28 Apr 2021
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College Health Centre set to administer onsite vaccinations
First delivery of COVID-19 vaccines arrives on campus.
27 Apr 2021
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New Scholars and Fellows Announced
The new cohort of Fellows and Scholars has been announced today, on Trinity Monday. Staff, students, friends and families are unable to celebrate on campus this year due to COVID-19 restrictions and yet all are united in their appreciation for the exceptional achievements of the students and academics who have been elected.
26 Apr 2021
Research
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Revisiting the Fourth Estate: does the media still serve democracy?
To mark the announcement of the Trinity Long Room Hub’s new Schuler Forum for Democracy, an online event tomorrow (Tuesday 27 April), will convene a panel of journalists and academics to look at the media as the “fourth estate” and ask how the media can effectively support democracy.
26 Apr 2021
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E3 marks 51st anniversary of Earth Day
To mark the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, hear from Trinity academics in E3 schools on the climate crisis through lectures, presentations and talks.
22 Apr 2021
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Tánaiste to deliver Trinity Monday Memorial Discourse on Noël Christopher Browne
Trinity graduate and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar TD will deliver this year’s Trinity Memorial Discourse on 26 April.
22 Apr 2021
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Trinity places in top 50 in 7 categories for THE global impact rankings
Trinity College Dublin has been named 6th best university in the world in terms of Gender Equality and ranks in the top 50 in 7 total categories in the 2021 University Impact Rankings from Times Higher Education (THE).
21 Apr 2021
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Humanities Horizons Lecture, The Age of the Technocene: Why we need the Arts and Humanities in the 4th Industrial Revolution
This evening, Wednesday 21 April, the Long Room Hub's annual Humanities Horizons Lecture will take place online.
21 Apr 2021
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Diane Louie wins 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
Diane Louie has been announced as the winner of the 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her first book of poems Fractal Shores.
21 Apr 2021