Trinity Highlights for 2023
Featured News
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Plastic manufacturing technologies jeopardise food safety and the environment
AMBER Centre researchers based in Trinity have discovered that the way many everyday plastics are manufactured builds unseen stress into the material—stress that later drives the release of tiny plastic particles into our food and the environment.
13 May 2025
Environment|Health|Research|Science|Sustainability
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The Climate Fiction Prize 2025: the five shortlisted books reviewed by our experts
Chris Morash, School of English, joins a panel of researchers to review the novels shortlisted for the 2025 Climate Fiction Prize.
13 May 2025
Culture|Environment|Research|Sustainability
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In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
Leo XIV was a choice few saw coming, and is a figure of humility, steadiness and introspective strength, writes Bronagh Ann McShane in an opinion article first published by The Irish Times.
12 May 2025
Research|Society
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Trinity Long Room Hub’s ‘Behind the Headlines’ series turns 10
10 years of public engagement on the pressing issues of our time will be celebrated this week by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
12 May 2025
Culture|Research|Society
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Fat-rich fluid fuels immune failure in ovarian cancer
New research led by Irish scientists has uncovered how lipid-rich fluid in the abdomen, known as ascites, plays a central role in weakening the body’s immune response in advanced ovarian cancer.
09 May 2025
Health|Research|Science
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Professor John G Byrne added to Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Irish Biography
Prof. Byrne, founder of Trinity’s Department of Computer Science and Head for 32 years, who was known by many as the “Father of Computing in Ireland”, was a distinguished computer scientist, dedicated public servant and Senior Fellow at Trinity.
09 May 2025
Research|Science
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Gustav Parker Hibbett wins 2025 Pollard International Poetry Prize
Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity.
08 May 2025
Awards and Funding|Culture
Trinity Highlights from 2023
21 Dec 2023