College News
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Trinity Access students to meet with Mary Daly, Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
The students will meet with US economist Mary Daly, current CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to discuss the value of an inclusive economy, and the value of removing talent gaps in professional industries.
10 Feb 2020
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Provost’s Innovation Challenge @ Tangent – Hacking Plastics
The Provost’s Innovation Challenge offers Trinity students the chance to work in teams on creative solutions to the problems facing our society today.
10 Feb 2020
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Shortlist for 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize announced
The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding debut poetry book collection in the English language. It is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation, and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English.
7 Feb 2020
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LaunchBox 2020: Applications are open!
Launchbox is a great opportunity for Trinity students who have an early-stage idea for a business or social enterprise and want to take it to the next level.
5 Feb 2020
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Artwork depicting chaos of Brexit hangs on side of Trinity Long Room Hub building
Brexit is finally upon us. Britain will leave the European Union on Friday night at 11pm. To mark this momentous day, an artwork by the artist Rita Duffy, The Raft Project 2019, will hang on the side of the Trinity Long Room Hub building until Wednesday, February 19th.
31 Jan 2020
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First university zero waste festival a success at Trinity
Over 3,000 people attended the first zero waste festival to take place in a university in Ireland
31 Jan 2020
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Calls for new Taoiseach to make the 1926 census available online
As a panel discussion at Trinity College Dublin explored the significance of the Four Courts fire of 1922, and the destruction of the Public Records Office resulting in the loss of over 700 years of Ireland’s historical and genealogical records, the Taoiseach was called on to open the 1926 census and make them available online.
29 Jan 2020
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Preasráiteas do na Meáin ó Choláiste na Tríonóide
Céim oinigh bronnta ar Uachtarán na Gréige i gColáiste na Tríonóide
22 Jan 2020
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Trinity Sport announces results of first integrated strategy for sport
The strategy’s two main themes focused on increasing participation in sport and physical activity and developing the performance environment and structure around individual athletes and teams.
20 Jan 2020
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Trinity gears up to celebrate Chinese New Year 2020
Trinity’s front façade will light up red this weekend to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Rat.
20 Jan 2020
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Science Gallery International welcomes Emory University
The announcement was made at the the world's first Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin.
17 Jan 2020
Research
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Trinity and UPS announce 5-year sustainability partnership
Trinity and UPS, a global leader in logistics have announced a five-year partnership to drive sustainable solutions for Dublin.
13 Jan 2020
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SEAI grants of almost €700,000 awarded to two Trinity professors
David Igoe, an assistant professor in the School of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, was awarded €348,950 from SEAI’s research and development programme to lead a research project exploring the dynamic interactions between the foundations and soils for offshore wind turbines. Eleanor Denny, an associate professor in the Economics Department at Trinity College Dublin, was awarded a research grant of €348,000 from SEAI’s research and development programme to conduct research into electric vehicles and consumer investment behaviour.
23 Dec 2019
Research
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Professor Brendan Browne opens the world of medicine to North Belfast teenagers
A project led by Trinity professor Brendan Browne to introduce teenagers from disadvantaged areas of Belfast to the medical world has just completed a successful eight-week run.
20 Dec 2019
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Inauguration of Chancellor Mary McAleese
Professor McAleese has a long-standing connection with Trinity, having held the position of Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology from 1975 to 1987 and been involved in numerous University events and initiatives over subsequent years.
18 Dec 2019
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Trinity’s Day Nursery celebrates 50 years in operation
The first on-site workplace creche in Ireland, the Day Nursery on campus at Trinity College Dublin, celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
18 Dec 2019
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Professor Louise Richardson Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford gives Henry Grattan lecture
The lecture titled “Speaking to the Hand: the Rhetoric of Division and the Threat to Democracy” was hosted by the Embassy of Ireland in London in association with Trinity College Dublin.
17 Dec 2019
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New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate change-ready
Trinity scientists have found that with rising CO2 levels, evergreen trees and shrubs are more efficient in using water than deciduous plants in cooler climate locations.
12 Dec 2019
Research
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Three Trinity researchers win prestigious European Research Council awards
Researchers from Trinity College won three of the six grants awarded to researchers at Irish universities.
10 Dec 2019
Research
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SUBMERGE – Science Gallery Bengaluru Launches First Exhibition
When we think of water, we are mostly thinking of the 3% that is freshwater on Earth. What does it mean to think of water beyond its being a resource: water is after all a weird substance? It is present in the smallest of living cells as well in gigantic glaciers and oceans. Water shapes […]
9 Dec 2019
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Pioneering Trinity ecologist wins IRC Early Career Researcher of the Year
Pioneering ecologist, Dr Jeremy J Piggott, Assistant Professor in Zoology in Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences, has won the prestigious 2019 Irish Research Council Early Career Researcher of the Year award.
6 Dec 2019
Research
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Celebrating Innovative Research at Trinity
Leading researchers and inventors at Trinity College Dublin were acknowledged for their innovative research and entrepreneurship at the Trinity Innovation Awards 2019 special awards ceremony. The highest accolade, the Provost Innovation Award went to Trinity Alumni Sean Mitchell and David Moloney for their leadership in the highly competitive semiconductor industry. Sean Mitchell Having completed […]
6 Dec 2019
Research
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An Taoiseach and Minister Madigan launch the Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury research project
The flagship research project led by Trinity will digitally recreate seven centuries of historical records of the Public Record Office of Ireland destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War.
5 Dec 2019
Research
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Provost and Indian Ambassador plant tree to commemorate Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary
The Provost and Indian Ambassador to Ireland jointly planted a peace Trachycarpus fortunei Palm tree to celebrate 150 years since the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.
5 Dec 2019
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Trinity student Lyndsay Walsh recognised at Climate Ambassador Awards
Student Lyndsay Walsh completed An Taisce’s Climate Ambassador programme in 2019 and was presented with an Outstanding Achievement Award.
5 Dec 2019
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Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity celebrates 18 years
Centre for Deaf Studies (CDS) celebrated its 18th year at Trinity by hosting a seminar in November. The incoming Chancellor and former President, Prof Mary McAleese officially opened the Centre on the 12th of November 2001.
5 Dec 2019
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Behind the Headlines asks: ‘What’s going on in Hong Kong?’
Hong Kong and the ongoing unrest in the region was the focus of the Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest Behind the Headlines.
4 Dec 2019
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‘Michaelmas Market’ by the Campanile
This year Trinity will host its first Christmas Market for the College community on campus.
2 Dec 2019
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How sex, violence and exclusion shaped masculine expectations in medieval Europe
How sex, violence and exclusion shaped masculine expectations in medieval Europe was explored in an inaugural lecture by Ruth Mazo Karras, Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin.
29 Nov 2019
Research
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National Deprivation Index for Ireland published
Researchers at Trinity College have published the National Deprivation Index for Ireland.
28 Nov 2019
Research