College News - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity celebrates its 25 year relationship with Tallaght University Hospital

Academics from the Faculty of Health Sciences joined colleagues at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) to celebrate their 25 year relationship and reflect on their shared journey.

23 Nov 2023

Health|Research|Society

Seven Trinity researchers and staff receive IRC Research Ally awards

Irish Research Council honours supervisors, mentors, and research and technical support officers for their valuable contributions to research.

21 Nov 2023

Trinity hosts LERU Rectors’ Assembly

LERU is an association of research-intensive universities with common viewpoints on higher education and research.

20 Nov 2023

Trinity launches Civic Engagement Action Plan

What is a civically-engaged university? Trinity now has a plan that sets out its goals.

20 Nov 2023

Community|Research|Society

Fewer staff, students are walking and cycling, survey finds

The numbers walking fell to 20% from a high of 28% in 2018, while the cycling rate was sharply down (-59%) from 2011.

20 Nov 2023

Community|Environment|Students

Trinity wins European Social Services Award for child-centred research

Judges noted that “internationally, relatively few examples of research exist that represent the authentic voice of the child in the child protection system”.

17 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Research

Trinity celebrates sport scholars for the 2023/24 season

This year’s awardees, comprising 36 Trinity Sport scholars and 28 club academy scholars will represent Trinity this season across seventeen sports including rugby, basketball, GAA, soccer, rowing, and cricket.

15 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Students

TAP30 Art Exhibition & Auction

The launch of The Essence of Student Life exhibition takes place Monday November 13 2023 6-8 pm. To celebrate 30 years of Trinity Access Programmes (TAP), works by 19 contemporary artists on the theme of student life are going on display in Trinity's Exam Hall.

10 Nov 2023

Arts|Community|Culture

Competition inspires students to focus on proficiency in specialised care of older patients

Teams of under-graduate medical students from the medical schools in Ireland will compete for the Dr Jack Flanagan Medal in Gerontology.

8 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

First winners of Joly Cancer Leadership Programme award named

The first two awardees under the Joly Cancer Leadership Programme are Dr Nina Orfali, Consultant Haematologist, and Mr Michael Kelly, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon.

3 Nov 2023

Health|Research|Science

Trinity joins pilot international sustainability education programme

The cohort of institutions will work closely with their students throughout the year to engage with the framework of good practice, effecting changes to teaching and learning at the top-down, middle-out and bottom-up levels.

2 Nov 2023

Culture|Environment|Students|Sustainability

Fabulous Histories: Animals in Literature

Professor Aileen Douglas will deliver her Inaugural Lecture ‘Fabulous Histories: Animals in Literature’ on Tuesday 7th November.

1 Nov 2023

Arts

Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels delivers masterclass to Trinity computer science students

Amazon.com Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Dr Werner Vogels delivered a Masterclass entitled ‘From Research to Production: Applying Distributed Computing Concepts to the Real World’ to students on the MSc programme in Computer Science on his recent visit to Trinity.

26 Oct 2023

Innovation|Research|Students

The Hist wins Guinness World Record for longest debate marathon

The student debate went on for 27 hours, 58 minutes, with eight speakers addressing 26 motions run back to back, all under careful supervision of Guinness World Records.

23 Oct 2023

Students

Taoiseach speaks at Hist debate

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar gave a keynote speech on the importance of student debate.

20 Oct 2023

Trinity honours ten high-achieving graduates at 2023 Alumni Awards

The acclaimed author Anne Enright joined nine other high achievers from a wide variety of fields who were celebrated at the 2023 Trinity College Dublin Alumni Awards.

20 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Society

Dr Fáinche Ryan elected Vice President of European Society of Catholic Theology

Dr Ryan will serve as Vice President for two years and then as President for a further two years.

17 Oct 2023

Learnovate and Amazon launch accelerator programme for EdTech firms

The EdTech Accelerator Programme is a collaboration between Learnovate, a leading global future of work and learning research hub in Trinity College Dublin, and AWS.

16 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation

Rugby World Cup collector coin features Trinity's Campanile

For France, they picked the Eiffel Tower; for England, it was Big Ben; and when it came to picking a landmark building to appear on a collector coin to mark Ireland's participation in the 2023 Rugby World Cup, the French Mint chose Trinity's own Campanile.

13 Oct 2023

Culture

Free Agents: How evolution gave us free will

Kevin Mitchell, Professor in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, launched his fascinating new book at a special event in Trinity this week.

12 Oct 2023

Culture|Research|Science

Diversity and Inclusion conference promotes social mobility through education

"This event aimed to inspire actionable strategies that nurture talent and enable individuals to reach their full potential, regardless of their socio-economic background."

11 Oct 2023

Community|Society

School of Psychology launches new micro-credential course

The course in Mental Health & Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies was created in partnership with the International Federation of the Red Cross' Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support.

10 Oct 2023

Students

Trinity’s Prof Jo-Hanna Ivers secures funding from National Open Research Forum

The Trinity-hosted project, entitled ENGAGED: Co-Creating Ireland’s Public Engagement and Open Research Road Map, will be led by Jo-Hanna Ivers, Associate Professor in Addictions & Associate Dean of Civic Engagement & Social Innovation at Trinity College Dublin.

4 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding

Trinity students to represent Ireland at Enactus World Cup

Students from Trinity College Dublin will soon be jetting off to Utrecht to represent Ireland at the Enactus World Cup

3 Oct 2023

Business|Environment|Students

Open House Dublin 2023

Trinity College Dublin is host to several events during this year’s Open House Dublin Festival of Architecture.

2 Oct 2023

Community|Culture

Printing House Square official opening

We are looking forward to welcoming our students and staff to the official opening of Printing House Square on Monday October 9th from 3-5pm.

29 Sep 2023

Community|Health

Cuireann an Propast imní shuntasach in iúl faoin mbuiséad atá le teacht go luath

Agus í ag rá go raibh an earnáil “tearcmhaoinithe go mór” de réir chaighdeáin idirnáisiúnta, leag an Propast béim ar an éifeacht ollmhór atá ag an staid reatha airgeadais ar mhic léinn agus ar an bhfoireann.

29 Sep 2023

Community|Society

Academy of the Near Future wins Silver at Seoul Smart City prize

Academy of the Near Future (ANF) has been awarded silver in the ‘Human-Centricity’ category at the Seoul Smart City Prize in South Korea. ANF is a collaborative initiative between Dublin City Council and CONNECT, the SFI Research Centre for Future Networks at Trinity.

28 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Sustainability

Provost expresses significant concern regarding forthcoming budget

College community urged to contact public representatives.

28 Sep 2023

Trinity's trees - featuring the Southern Magnolia

This month we are bringing you Magnolia grandiflora, commonly known as the Southern Magnolia. It is located just behind the 1937 Reading Room in the Provost’s Garden. This is a mature specimen of M. grandiflora and measures 16 m in height with a girth of 1.2 m, but they can grow to 35 m in height.

28 Sep 2023

Environment|Sustainability