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Trinity Academics to Highlight Postgraduate Opportunities in Upcoming Visit to Hong Kong
Academics from a range of disciplines will be on hand to talk you through the various course options and the application process. Interested applicants should email Trinity’s Regional Officer for China, Susan Phillips at susan.phillips@tcd.ie, in advance to arrange an appointment. Academics will meet students in a central hotel in Hong Kong on Thursday 7th March between 6.30 – 8pm.
Dancing and Riddles Planned for Chinese New Year Celebrations
Trinity College Dublin will celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Snake on Tuesday February 12th next. The celebrations will kick off with a traditional Dragon dance in Front Square at 1pm, believed to bring good luck. A series of other event will also take place in the Examination Hall between 1-3.30pm. Highlights will include calligraphy, Chinese riddles, traditional lanterns, a Han costume show and traditional Chinese cuisine. All welcome.
Posted 6 February
Annual Public Lecture in American History questions "Democracy and Money in America: A Historical Perspective on the Election of 2012"
The presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will easily be the most expensive in history. The Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 decision in the “Citizens United” case overturned important campaign finance regulations. Now individual and corporate donors can make unlimited financial contributions to electoral campaigns through “Super Pacs,” which have funded countless advertisements this election cycle.
Trinity to Provide Singapore's First Degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
In the first international collaboration of its kind for Trinity College Dublin, it will provide degrees in occupational therapy and physiotherapy to students in Singapore. Trinity College Dublin and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) signed a partnership this week, offering the degrees that are designed, taught and awarded by Trinity College Dublin. The signing of the agreement was witnessed by the Minister for Health in Singapore, Mr Gan Kim Yong, Singapore.
Posted 2 November
Tribute to Professor Yash Chopra, Bollywood Legend
The College community, and in particular the Vice Provost for Global Relations Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, extend their deepest sympathies to the family of Professor Yash Chopra who passed away suddenly on Sunday October 21st last. Chopra was a highly accomplished man who achieved much during a career that spanned five decades. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues at this difficult time.
Posted 23 October
Postgraduate Opportunities for Students at Trinity College Dublin
Looking for a postgraduate opportunity that will give your career a competitive advantage? At Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s leading university, we have a wide range of world leading postgraduate courses across a range of disciplines that can directly benefit your career advancement. This November representatives from Trinity College Dublin will visit India giving you a chance to discuss you application with academics from the University.
Posted 19 October
Trinity College Dublin is Ranked 110th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012
Trinity College Dublin has risen to 110th place in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012 announced today, up seven places on last year. These are the second set of prestigious rankings in which Trinity College has scored highly. Last month the College ranked in 67th place in the QS World University Rankings 2012.
Posted 4 October
Award Winning Bollywood Film Director Visits Trinity College Dublin
Kabir Khan, award winning film director, recently returned to Dublin to hold a Bollywood master class followed by a Q&A session with students and staff from the university. The event was chaired by Professor Kevin Rockett from Trinity's School of Drama, Film and Music.
Posted 3 October
President Emeritus of the Pittsburgh Steelers in USA, Dr Daniel Rooney, Presents Dramatist Nancy Harris with Rooney Prize 2012
The Rooney Prize is awarded annually to a young Irish writer who shows exceptional promise. It has existed since 1976 through the generosity of Dr Daniel Rooney, President Emeritus of the Pittsburgh Steelers, USA and the current Ambassador to Ireland of the United States of America and of his wife Mrs Patricia Rooney
Posted 1 October
Trinity Student Wins International Biology Award
Recent graduate of the School of Natural Sciences, Sive Finlay, was announced as the winner of the Best Biology Student 2012 in the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Awards, following an interview with a Society of Biology judging panel. The SET awards provide a showcase for educational excellence by publicly recognising the exceptional achievements of both students and universities.
Posted 29 September
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade Launches Trinity's Global Relations Strategy
Trinity College Dublin's Global Relation Strategy aims to build on Trinity’s strong international reputation for research, teaching and innovation in its mission to be a university of global consequence. The University appointed a Vice-Provost for Global Relations, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, to lead the implementation of the strategy work which has resulted in the opening of ‘global gateways’ in New York, New Delhi and Shanghai.
Posted 10 September
Trinity College Dublin Welcomes the EAIE Conference to the City
The European Association for International Education’s (EAIE) 24th Annual Conference, will take place in Dublin from11th - 14th September 2012 next and Trinity College Dublin would like to welcome all conference delegates to make the short journey from the Convention Centre to visit our historic city centre campus and get a feel for what a Trinity education can offer. Our team will be exhibiting at the conference and will be in position 127. We look forward to meeting you and disussing the range of educational opportunities and the rich student experience on offer at Trinity College Dublin.
Posted 6 September 2012
Trinity Hosts Global Ireland Football Tournament Pep Rally
Over 2,000 people participating in a colourful Pep Rally for the Global Ireland Football Tournament (GIFT) gathered in Front Square on August 30th last. Whilst not directly connected with the 2012 Emerald Isle Classic (Notre Dame v Navy Football) in the Aviva Stadium, the GIFT tournament was organised to bring 12 Championship high school and college American football teams to Ireland to take part in a series of American football matches on August 31st.
Posted 1 September
Student Volunteers from Trinity Celebrate Ten Years of the Suas Educational Development Programme in Kolkata
Suas Educational Development was originally founded in 2002 by students from Trinity College Dublin who believed that the best way of making a difference was through education. Each year since, the Volunteer Programme has given young students an opportunity to support the education of children in schools that serve some of the most marginalised communities in India.
Posted 28 August 2012
Fulbright Awards Available for Postgraduate Study and Research in the USA
The Fulbright Commission in Ireland has officially invited applications for the the 2013 - 2014 competition for Fulbright Awards which include a monetary grant for post-graduate students, scholars, and professionals to travel to the US to lecture, research, and study for a maximum period of one year. Trinity College Dublin students and staff have a successful history in receiving Fullbright Awards.
Posted on 24 August 2012
Bollywood's Most Influential Film Maker, Yash Chopra, Receives Honorary Professorship from Trinity College Dublin, Marking 100 Years of Bollywood Film
The prestigious award, which recognises Mr Chopra’s outstanding contribution to Indian cinema, popular culture, globalisation and cultural exchange, was conferred on the veteran filmmaker by the university’s Vice President for Global Relations, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer.
Posted on 17 August 2012
Bollywood Film Shot on Location at Trinity College Dublin Launches in India and Dublin
The Bollywood film, Ek Tha Tiger, shot on location at Trinity College Dublin will be launched in India and Dublin this week. The first ever Bollywood blockbuster to be made in Ireland, featuring two of Bollywood’s biggest stars, Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan, will have special screening events across India – Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Dehli – as well as Dublin. Read More...
Posted on 6 August 2012
Trinity Scientists Advance Understanding of How Flowers are Formed
Scientists from the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the genetic processes underlying flower development. The research funded by Science Foundation Ireland has just been published in the leading international journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Read More...
Posted on 6 August 2012
Trinity Students compete at 2012 Olympic Games
Trinity College Dublin will be represented by two highly talented students in ‘Team Ireland’, Mark Kennelly and Natalya Coyle, at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Read More...
Posted on 26 July 2012
Trinity Researchers Play Central Role in Search for Higgs Boson
Researchers in the Computer Architecture and Grid Research group in Trinity College Dublin's School of Computer Science and Statistics were part of the global effort to analyse the data generated by the Large Hadron Collider experiment and played a key role in the analysis leading to the recent announcement by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, of the Higgs Boson. Read More...
Posted on 19 July 2012
Trinity College Dublin Excels in QS World University Subject Rankings
Trinity College Dublin features prominently in the just published QS Subject Rankings 2012, with a top 50 ranking in four subjects and top 100 ranking in a further fourteen areas. The College’s leading 50 subjects include English, Language & Literature in 14th place worldwide; 38th in History; 40th in Geography; and 45th globally in Politics & International Studies. Read More...
Posted on 9 July 2012
World Renowned Scientists are Conferred with Honorary Degrees at Trinity
World renowned scientists were among those conferred with honorary doctorates at a special honorary degree ceremony at Trinity recently marking the Dublin City of Science 2012 and the Euroscience Open Forum. Read More...
Posted on 04 July 2012
Genetics Student Wins Chinese Government Award
A student from Trinity’s Department of Genetics, Xiaowei Jiang, has been awarded a prestigious Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Chinese Students Abroad. The award recognises the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students attending doctoral programs overseas lasting more than one year. Read More...
Posted on 28 June 2012
Trinity Students Receive Fulbright Awards
Eight Trinity College Dublin students were recently awarded prestigious Fulbright awards, representing the highest number of awards for any Irish institution. Read More...
Posted on 25 June 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi Receives Honorary Degree from Trinity College Dublin
Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the most renowned woman democrats in the world, was conferred with an Honorary Degree from Trinity College Dublin on Monday June 18th last during her visit to Ireland. Read More...
Posted on 20 June 2012
Trinity-led International Collaboration to Enable Cutting Edge Research in Medieval and Modern European History
An international project facilitating cutting-edge archival research in medieval and modern European history has been awarded €6.5 million by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme. The project, CENDARI (Collaborative EuropeaN Digital ARchive Infrastructure), is coordinated by Trinity College Dublin. Read More...
Posted on 12 June 2012
Trinity Celebrates a 100 Years of Participation by Trinity Students in the Olympic Games
Trinity College Dublin hosted a special event Trinity Olympians to celebrate the participation of students, past and present in the Olympic Games over the past 100 years and to honour current students participating in the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay.. Read More...
Posted on 8 June 2012
Indian Tempest Headlines Trinity Shakespeare Festival 2012
An exciting international adaptation of William Shakespeare’s final comedy The Tempest entitled the Indian Tempest, will headline the 2012 Trinity College Dublin Shakespeare Festival (June 6th to 16th). Performed by Footsbarn Travelling Theatre who has strong links with the Indian state of Kerala, the headline performance will take place each evening in a specially constructed outdoor theatre in the Front Square of Trinity College Dublin. Read more...
Posted on 4 June 2012
Trinity College Dublin Celebrates Africa Day with Conference on Developing Agri-Food Sector in Africa
A strong and sustainable agriculture sector in Africa has the potential to tackle under-nutrition and rural poverty across the continent, according to speakers at an international conference on agriculture to mark Africa Day in Trinity College Dublin. Read More...
Posted on 28 May 2012
Trinity and Brown University Sign Partnership Agreement
Trinity College Dublin and Brown University in the United States recently signed a new partnership agreement as part of the Brown Plus One program which will benefit students interested in international study. Trinity College Dublin represents the third international partner in the Brown Plus One initiative, joining the University of Edinburgh and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Read More...
Posted on 28 May 2012
Trinity Fosters Academic Links with Top Chinese University
Trinity College Dublin and one of China’s top universities, Beihang University, recently signed a strategic partnership which will enable both institutions cooperate in teaching and research, and facilitate both academic and cultural interchange. Read More...
Posted on 26 Apr 2012
Trinity Physicist Finds New Way to Pack Spheres Efficiently
New collaborative research has revealed the most efficient method to date for packing spherical objects into a cylinder. Dr Ho-Kei Chan, a Research Fellow from the Foams and Complex Systems research group at Trinity’s School of Physics, has developed an algorithm for sphere packing which finds an arrangement in which the spheres fit as densely as possible into the cylinder provided, an issue that has a broad range of applications. Read More...
Posted on 20 Apr 2012
Neurobiology Teaching Programme Strengthens Links with Indian Institution
Twenty-five students from all over India recently took part in a special teaching programme involving faculty from India, the USA and Ireland. Trinity College Dublin’s Professor of Experimental Brain Research, Shane O’Mara taught at the Department of Science and Technology sponsored school in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory which took place recently at the National Institute for Mental Health and Neuroscience, NIMHANS, in Bangalore. Read More...
Posted on 18 Apr 2012
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Announces Public Scholarships
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation is offering six scholarships to Irish third level students for the academic year 2012/2013. One scholarship is offered for study at Bachelor, Master’s and specialist programmes and one scholarship is offered on post-graduate programmes (internship, clinical studies) and doctoral programmes. Four scholarships are offered for short term studies (advanced training). Read More...
Posted on 17 Apr 2012
New Partnership Agreements to Foster Indian-Ireland Academic Links in Civil Engineering
As part of the Ireland-Indian Initiative in Civil Engineering (I3CE@TCD) Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, recently established new partnerships with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi and Thapar University, Patiala. The Memorandums of Understanding will enable the Indian institutions cooperate with Trinity College Dublin in teaching and research, provide postgraduate training and education in Civil Engineering, and promote student and staff exchange. Read More...
Posted on 13 Apr 2012
Trinity Students to Carry the Olympic Flame for the London 2012 Olympics
Trinity College Dublin students will be carrying the Olympic Flame on June 6th next through the streets of Dublin as part of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay. As a presenting partner of the Olympic Torch Relay, Samsung opened up a nomination process at Trinity College Dublin to find inspiring young students who would carry the Olympic Flame in the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay. Read More...
Posted on 29 Mar 2012
Trinity Students Celebrate the Colourful Festival of Holi
Students at Trinity College Dublin marked the spring festival of Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, with a celebration in Front Square yesterday that saw students throw coloured powder at each other. Organised by Trinity's Indian Society, the Trinity celebrations for the Holi festival aimed to embrace and promote multiculturalism within the College and Ireland. Over 150 members of the student body joined in the celebration that also featured music and dancing. Read More...
Posted on 15 Mar 2012
Trinity Students and Staff Celebrate International Women’s Day
Trinity College Dublin staff and students rallied together to host a week of events to celebrate International Women’s Day 2012. Each year the College celebrates women’s contributions in different artistic and scientific fields with a weeklong programme of events marking Trinity's participation in a global campaign for rights and equality. Read More...
Posted on 14 Mar 2012
Dublin Ranked in Top Ten Best Student Cities in the World
Dublin has been named one of the best student cities in the world by the first global rankings of student cities published recently by QS. Only cities with populations of more than 250,000 and home to two or more ranked universities were analysed by researchers who took into consideration quality of living, affordability and reputation of the university amongst other indicators. Read More...
Posted on 5 March 2012
Google gift of €1 million to help inspire next generation of innovators
Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin has been awarded a prestigious gift of €1 million from Google.org to develop a Global Science Gallery Network (GSGN). The gift is part of over $100 million in total charitable giving from Google in 2011. Read More...
Posted on 30 Jan 2012
Trinity Researchers Launch New Smartphone Application for Viewing Images of the Sun
Researchers from Trinity's School of Physics and School of Computer Science and Statistics celebrated the launch of a new Smartphone version of SolarMonitor.org, that allows you to view the most recent NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) images of the Sun from your Smartphone. The group, led by Trinity solar physicist, Dr Peter Gallagher, launched the application at the annual European Space Weather Week conference in Belgium recently. Read More...
Posted on 30 Jan 2012