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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

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Major funding for the conservation of the Dutch Fagel Collection at the Library of Trinity College Dublin

The European partnership between the Library of Trinity College Dublin and the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, will enable open access to one of the most important libraries in modern Europe.

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

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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

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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

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What is college like for gender minority students?

The report is based on over 100 survey responses that were collected from transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students in Irish higher education programmes this past summer.

3 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

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New spatial index maps relationships between poverty and accessibility in Northeast Brazil

Poor transportation availability can result in poor access to health care and employment, reinforcing the cycle of poverty, low life expectancy and high child mortality.

28 Nov 2019

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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

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Nature versus nurture: how modern science is rewriting it

The question of whether it is genes or environment that largely shapes human behaviour has been debated for centuries. During the second half of the 20th century, there were two camps of scientists – each believing that nature or nurture, respectively, was exclusively at play.

27 Nov 2019

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