College News - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Nominate an Honorary Degree Recipient

Trinity College Dublin invites its students, staff, alumni and members of the public to make nominations for honorary degree recipients.

25 Sep 2023

Community

New Trinity Board meets

Trinity’s new Board met on campus yesterday for the first time.

21 Sep 2023

Trinity hosts educational conference on domestic violence and child protection

Over 200 participants came to Trinity today to attend the Domestic Violence and Child Protection Conference.

8 Sep 2023

Dr Thomas Laurent wins prestigious Lero Prize for work in software testing

Dr Laurent, from the School of Computer Science and Statistics, was recently awarded a Lero Director’s Prize for PhD / Post-Doctoral Researcher Contribution at the annual summit of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Software.

6 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Ukrainian exhibition launches at Pearse Station

Inner Light, an exhibition documenting the stories of Ukrainian women living in Ireland, has opened in Pearse Station.

24 Aug 2023

Community|Society

Trinity Tree of the Month – the Banana tree

This month we are featuring the Banana tree, or Musa acuminata, which is one of our unique indoor trees located in the O Reilly atrium. This plant can grow to seven metres tall and has leaves that are up to four metres long. These plants absorb a large amount of carbon to produce leaves and fruit, but quickly release it once fruited and die back occurs. Musa acuminata originated in Southern Asia and some reports suggest the plant has been in cultivation for close to 7000 years.

24 Aug 2023

Environment|Science|Sustainability

TILDA/MISA event explores why education determines when we die?

Guest speakers examined how the college educated have become healthier and wealthier, while adults without a degree are suffering from deaths of despair including suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism in the United States.

23 Aug 2023

Health|Research|Society

Tangent and Green Tech HQ launch climate accelerator for construction sector

This programme is open to innovators and entrepreneurs with new solutions in low carbon and green design, circular materials, energy and maintenance systems

11 Aug 2023

Business|Environment

Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds

Trinity neuroscientist, Professor Shane O’Mara, explores the science of human connection and communication in his new book.

10 Aug 2023

Trinity tree of the month- the Kentucky Coffee Tree

This month we are featuring the Gymnocladus dioicus, commonly known as the Kentucky Coffee Tree, which was planted in 2020 on the boardwalk side of College Park. It is currently 5.6 metres tall, 25 cm in girth, and can grow to almost five times its current size. When mature it will store up to 1200 kg of carbon.

1 Aug 2023

Community|Environment|Sustainability

Trinity student wins Inclusivity Partnership Award

This week, Children’s Books Ireland and the School of English announced the recipient of the 2023 Inclusivity Partnership Award. The partnership enables researchers to work closely with experts in the area of children’s books to investigate key issues in contemporary publishing for young readers. The recipient, Linde Vergeylen, is a student from the M.Phil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity. Under the supervision of Dr Pádraic Whyte, she will lead an investigation into the representation of disabilities in Young Adult verse novels.

20 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Culture|Students

Trinity to lead Creative Ireland climate action project

A cross-border project led by Trinity College Dublin has been awarded €250,000 by Creative Ireland to illustrate the urgency of climate challenge and rising sea levels.

14 Jul 2023

Green Tech Skillnet provides 30% discount on selected Trinity green courses

Trinity is pleased to announce that Green Tech Skillnet, an organisation dedicated to fostering skills and expertise in the field of green technology, will provide a 30% discount for learners pursuing several of Trinity's green diplomas and micro-credential courses.

7 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Students|Sustainability

National Recognition for Printing House Square

Printing House Square in Trinity College Dublin was announced as the winner of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland's Award for the Learning Environments category last week. This a national award recognising a broad range of categories in the field of architecture in Ireland.

30 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding

Oral vaccine programme secures non-dilutive funding

Trinity’s Professor Ed Lavelle identified vaccine adjuvants that will be used as part of the research.

26 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science

Trinity tree of the month - Black Walnut

This month we are bringing you another gorgeous tree from Trinity College Botanic Gardens – Juglans nigra, or Black Walnut. This Black Walnut is 25 metres tall, has a girth of 2.62 metres and stores an estimated 2,617 kilograms of carbon. It can store up to 6,000 kilograms when it matures.

21 Jun 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Trinity staff conferred with special masters’ degrees

Over 350 Trinity staff were conferred with MA (Jure Officii) degrees on Saturday 17th June, recognising dedicated service to the College community

19 Jun 2023

Community|Culture

Orla Sheils becomes Doctor in Science, joins WHO Scientific Council

Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: "These honours are richly deserved. In her busy role as Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Trinity, Orla Sheils is a pivotal force in the University, while her research has enhanced Trinity's reputation as an international leader in cancer research.

16 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity and the World Food Programme at the United Nations for COSP16

Trinity College Dublin and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), led an event at the United Nations in New York on June 12th alongside the Conference of State Parties (COSP) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

15 Jun 2023

Arts

Trinity staff awarded for excellence in teaching

The recipients of the Trinity Excellence in Teaching Awards & School Awards for Teaching Excellence were announced by Provost Linda Doyle at a ceremony in the Provost's House on Thursday 8th June 2023.

12 Jun 2023

Five Trinity researchers receive Fulbright awards for 2023/24

The Fulbright bilateral exchange programme is known for selecting outstanding candidates from Ireland to study and work with US institutions across all disciplines ranging from health, science, technology and business to the arts and culture.

9 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Green Pearse Street campaign officially launched

Jane Stout, Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action, and The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Caroline Conroy, officially launched the Green Pearse Street campaign in partnership with several businesses in the area. The objective of Green Pearse Street is to ‘green’ the street, improve air quality, create a health and biodiversity corridor and to add more social space.

6 Jun 2023

Environment|Sustainability

All-Ireland Chromatin Consortium forges scientific relationships across research institutes and borders

Researchers from Trinity recently attended the first in-person conference of the All-Ireland Chromatin Consortium (AICC), which was established in 2021 to promote scientific exchange and collaborations between chromatin researchers on the island of Ireland, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit.

2 Jun 2023

Health|Research|Science

What's next for Ireland’s Biodiversity?

Professor Jane Stout will deliver a free public lecture in the National Botanic Gardens on 28th May

25 May 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Trinity's wildlife pond

In the heart of Dublin’s city centre, Trinity’s historic campus has some new residents. In a recently created wildlife pond, in the enviable location of the grounds of Number 1 Grafton Street (better known as the Provost’s back garden), tadpoles and other aquatic beasts are starting to flourish. Visible from the Nassau Street entrance to Trinity, the wildlife pond was created in late 2022 as part of Trinity’s ambition to increase biodiversity on its campus.

24 May 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Ageing and dementia in healthcare settings: design, evaluation and beyond

Researchers at TrinityHaus are hosting a hybrid research symposium on Friday 26th May from 9 am to 4 pm in Tangent, Trinity Ideas Workspace, to bring together a variety of national and international stakeholders to explore Ageing and Dementia in HealthCare Settings: Design, Evaluation and Beyond.

24 May 2023

Health|Research

Trinity Tree of the Month - Sessile Oak

This month we are bringing you another of our Native Tree Species, Quercus petrea or Sessile Oak, which was declared Ireland’s National Tree.

23 May 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Trinity Sports Awards 2023

The Trinity Sport Awards took place recently at the Royal Marine Hotel where eleven awards and the Pinks ceremony were announced. The annual awards are open to all sport clubs where the extraordinary commitment made by the sporting community at Trinity is acknowledged every year.

23 May 2023

Students

Tír na nÓg: DU Players’s Summerfest

This week Trinity’s campus will become the land of eternal youth as it plays host to the DU Players’s Summerfest.

22 May 2023

Students

Trinity celebrates Biodiversity Day 2023

Today, 22nd May is international Biodiversity Day, and this year’s official theme is “From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity”.

22 May 2023

Sustainability