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Are you ready to embark on an exciting academic journey in the field of Electronic Information Engineering? We are thrilled to invite you to an Information Session dedicated to our esteemed MSc program at Trinity College Dublin. Date: Tuesday, June 6th Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

The information session will provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the MSc in Statistics & Sustainability programme, including its curriculum, objectives, and the profound impact it can have on addressing pressing environmental challenges. Date: Friday, June 9th Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Trinity College Dublin School of Engineering Presents: Information Session for Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering for Climate Action, being held on 16th June, 2023 at 1pm, where you will have the opportunity to learn about our programme and meet our faculty members.

School of Engineering at Trinity is excited to announce the upcoming information session for our MPhil in Music and Media Technology, which will take place on 30th May, 2023 at 3pm, where you will have the opportunity to learn about our programme and meet our faculty members.

Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout raised the flag on Friday 28 April, alongside Sustainability Manager Jane Hackett and representatives from the Green Campus Committee.

Dr Sarah Mc Cormack, a Professor in Sustainable Energy at the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, was invited to speak to the Oireachtas on the topic of STEM and gender in education.

An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carla J. Harper, Assistant Professor in Botany in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity, has discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defence in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland.

Trinity College Dublin’s School of Engineering recently hosted 50 Transition Year students for three days to take part in seminars, field trips, and engineering workshops to encourage interest in the field of engineering. This event was organised by Professor Patrick Morrissey and was held as part of the STEPS Engineers Week which aims to provide primary and secondary school children with the opportunity to explore the creative world of engineering and the diverse opportunities a career in the sector can offer.

Three Biomedical Engineering School of Engineering members have received prestigious awards at the TERMIS-EU 2023 meeting. The Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society is a leading international learned society dedicated to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. At their recent 2023 EU meeting in Manchester UK Professor Danny Kelly, Professor Michael Monaghan and PhD candidate Tara Ní Néill were awarded the prestigious Mid Term Career Investigator, Robert Brown Early Career Investigator, and overall 1st prize Oral presentation prize respectively.

Pesticides have been detected in flowers not targeted with the chemicals that could be an additional, underestimated threat to pollinators according to new findings by Trinity and DCU, published in the Science of the Total Environment.

A huge 14ft smalltooth sand tiger shark washed up at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, this weekend. Scientists believe it to be the first official record of the species being found in Ireland’s waters.

This project builds directly on the success of Prof. Anna Davies’ award-winning SHARECITY project, which ran from 2016 to 2021 to assess the practicality and sustainability of food-sharing systems.

The launch of Trinity’s 21st annual Green Week: ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’ took place Monday morning with a 21st birthday theme at Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace.

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) awards grant to School of Engineering Assistant Professor Arman Farhang, supporting the development of novel technologies enabling communication through blockage in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems by creating smart radio environments.

After a Covid-enforced hiatus over the last number of years, the annual third year civil engineering trip resumed last week. 25 students and 3 staff spent two days in London, visiting various sites of engineering interest, as well as enjoying some reading week downtime.

Six researchers from the Schools of Engineering and Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity scooped the top prize of €1500 as winners of the recent Air Quality Data Hack 2023 Event.

The winning projects are among those to have secured funding in the latest Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme competition, which is designed to empower and inspire deep public engagement with STEM education.

Despite its green image, Ireland has surprisingly little forest. Across Europe, nations average around 35% forest cover but in Ireland the figure is just 11%, one of the lowest on the continent.

The Dŵr Uisce project led by Trinity College Dublin in partnership with Bangor University, has run for over six years and has made significant impactful contributions on the sustainability of the water related energy use in Ireland and Wales. The multidisciplinarity project has been led by Dr. Aonghus McNabola, Dr John Gallagher and Prof. Biswajit Basu in the School of Engineering, and Prof. Paul Coughlan in the Trinity Business School.

Trinity College Dublin School of Engineering is excited and grateful to announce that applications are now open for the Eric and Barbara Kinsella Scholarships. These scholarships were established by Eric and Barbara Kinsella with the goal of supporting talented engineering students in reaching their full potential.

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris has today (Monday, 13 February) announced the first 26 teams to receive funding under the €65 million National Challenge Fund – a competition to find solutions to major environmental and societal issues.

LegumeLegacy is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network commencing in February 2023 and is led Professor Caroline Brophy of the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin and the ADAPT SFI Research Centre.

Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery as to why ancient tetrapods – amphibian-like creatures that lived over 300 million years ago – preserved in one of Ireland’s most important fossil sites seemingly had their bones cooked after they died.

Administered by the Faculty of STEM and Trinity Access and worth €20,000 each over a four-year undergraduate degree programme, the scholarship scheme to benefit 25 students in total aims to attract women from Ireland to study STEM subjects at Trinity.

Badgers living with helminth parasite infections are more likely to have tuberculosis (TB), according to new research, which may influence policymakers trying to manage TB infection within cattle and wildlife populations

VIGILANT is a €4 million Horizon Europe project aimed at curbing the spread of disinformation and combating its negative effects such as promoting hate speech, human trafficking, and bogus medical cures

Scientists are calling for a “decade of global action” to reforest the planet following the publication of new research involving botanists from Trinity.

Connemara Marble, seen to beautiful effect in Trinity College Dublin’s iconic Museum Building, has been designated a Heritage Stone. One of ten stone types to be designated as such this year, Connemara Marble is now one of only 32 Heritage Stones worldwide.

Ecologists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed vital clues for how we can best support Ireland’s precious pollinators after interrogating a ten-year dataset containing information from 119 sites across the country.

Today one of the biggest marine discoveries of the last decade is being announced: the largest seagrass ecosystem in the world, an area in The Bahamas estimated to be up to 92,000 km2. Published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the study details a unique partnership with tiger sharks that played a key role in mapping and ultimately validating the main findings.

Zoologists from Trinity, working with a research team in Indonesia, have found several new species of colourful, tropical sunbirds. The zoologists have identified a new species, the “Wakatobi Sunbird” (Cinnyris infrenatus), which lives on the tiny Wakatobi Islands in central Indonesia.

Innovation thought leaders will unveil the secrets behind innovating so that companies can take their products and services to the next level, and outline how to effectively engage in collaborative innovation at the SUGAR Global Kick Off 2022/23, which is this week hosted by Trinity.

The technique accurately classifies the state of macrophages, which is important because these cells can modify their behaviour and act as pro- or anti-inflammatory agents in the immune response. As a result, the work has a suite of implications for research and has the potential to one day make major societal impact.

National Trust Cymru have been working with researchers from Trinity and Bangor University on a pioneering heat recovery system at Penrhyn Castle. Results show it reduces energy consumption by 230 kWh per month, equivalent to £1,770 per annum in heat savings.

A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers, and including those from Trinity College Dublin, has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world’s ecosystems across land, rivers and wetlands, and seas. The ecosystem typology will enable more coordinated and effective biodiversity conservation, critical for human wellbeing.

Prof Daniel Kilper will present his inaugural lecture on The Future of Communication Networks which will take place on Friday 11th November 2022 at 6pm – 7.30pm in the Robert Emmet Theatre

National Trust Cymru have been working with researchers from Trinity and Bangor University on a pioneering heat recovery system at Penrhyn Castle. Results show it reduces energy consumption by 230 kWh per month, equivalent to £1,770 per annum in heat savings

New research from marine scientists raises potential red flags for sharks that are caught and released by anglers. The team has discovered that the oceans iconic predators typically spike temperatures after they have been caught, which may have physiological and behavioural impacts.

The Línte na Farraige project’s visual light installations, by Finnish artists Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta, indicate the projected rise in sea levels from future storm surges. Installations will open at Spanish Arch, Galway, and will be followed by other coastal locations in the coming months.

Researchers from Trinity have shed new light on the formation of increasingly precious rare earth elements (REEs) by creating synthetic rocks and testing their responses to varying environmental conditions. REEs are used in electronic devices and green energy technologies, from smartphones to e-cars.

Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earths history.

A simple conservation strategy deployed by conservationists and scientists from BirdWatch Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin is greatly assisting in the extraordinary success of threatened Roseate terns on Rockabill Island, off the coast of Dublin

Researchers from the School of Engineering at Trinity are working with ESB, micro-mobility providers Bleeper and Moby, innovation partner Dogpatch Labs and co-founding partner Interreg North-West Europe to examine a new pilot e-bike project in the Dublin suburbs.

Trinity researchers have laid the foundation for new legislative radon map in Ireland. The original research, published in 2017, in collaboration with Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) showcased a novel methodology to combine geological information with measurements of indoor radon concentrations to produce a stepwise change in how radon is mapped.

Researchers from Trinity, led by Dr Breiffni Fitzgerald, Ussher Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, will use Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funding of around €500,000 with machine learning techniques to optimise wind farm performance.

An international team of scientists led by Trinity College Dublin tagged and released a record-breaking 2.8 m porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, off the coast of Donegal last week.

Biodiversity losses in countries with smaller, less-developed economies, impact large, developed economies, according to a new study.

For the first time, the annual United Nations World Water Day today focuses specifically on groundwater, with the theme Groundwater: making the invisible visible highlighting that this large and precious resource is hidden and underappreciated.

Join the Trinity College Dublin E3 Postgraduate Virtual Event on Friday the 4th of February 2022 at 10am Irish Time. Come along and find out how Trinity will future-proof your education & career in Engineering, Environment & Emerging Technologies. At this info session you will have the opportunity to listen to a live panel discussion with students, alumni, academic, local authority and industry representatives to learn more about Engineering, Environment and Technology education at Trinity. There will be a series of Q&A sessions at the end.

Join the Trinity College Dublin E3 Undergraduate Virtual Event on Friday the 3rd of December 2021 at 10am Irish Time.  Come along and find out how Trinity is transforming the STEM education through its ambitious project –E3 (Environment, Engineering & Emerging Technologies). At this info session, you will have the opportunity to listen to a live panel discussion comprising of Trinity E3 faculty staff, current students, and a Trinity career consultant to learn more about the STEM education at Trinity. There will be a series of Q&A sessions to answer any questions on curriculum, admissions, scholarships, student experience and future employability opportunities.

Profs. Paul Johnson and Laurence Gill from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are speaking at a COP26 event - the UNEP Peatlands PAvilion - Wednesday November 10th.

Trinity College Dublin today turned the sod on a project that will create 1,600 new student places in STEM subjects in the coming years to help tackle societal challenges such as climate change.

The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence is awarded annually in recognition of achievements in the field of thermal analysis of electronics equipment, and the thermal modelling of electronics parts and packages.

Four innovative multi-disciplinary research projects at Trinity College Dublin will share a total of €2 million in funding in the inaugural Kinsella Challenge-Based E3 Multi-Disciplinary Project Awards

Three Schools at Trinity College Dublin have secured Athena SWAN Bronze awards in the latest round of awards to recognise commitment to gender equality.

This new and very timely one-year, full-time course at Trinity takes a novel approach to the study of smart and sustainable urbanism.

Trinity College says its E3 education is designed to give graduates the skills they need to create solutions that enable society to live sustainably and equitably.

Read a featured article from the Council Journal about the new MSc in Smart and Sustainable Cities at Trinity.

In this webinar, Trinity’s Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Prof. Sylvia Draper, will lead a panel discussion with Prof. Laurence Gill (Environmental Engineering) and Prof. Jennifer Mc Elwain (Chair of Botany) on how Trinity’s research and educational programmes are informing our understanding of the drivers and impacts of climate change and the solutions emerging from Trinity’s research that are informing government policy on mitigating the effects of climate change.

Two students (Yaduvir Harhangi and Marton Goz) from Synge Street CBS, Dublin, won the Trinity College Dublin E3 Global Challenges Award for their team project at last week’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE)

Researchers from Trinity are among a collaborative group seeking to improve our understanding of the impact of human activity on land use and how it relates to climate change as part of a new €5 million project, Terrain-AI.

The 2020 Women in STEM campaign featured exclusive content from key thought leaders and industry voices about the importance of women being equally represented in STEM careers

The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) has organised a forthcoming public lecture series on the global pandemic

Trinity Business School was featured recently in the Sunday Business Post. Focusing on the School’s high growth strategy, the article spoke about our suite of postgraduate programmes and the new offerings available in 2016/17.

New research by a collaborative team of scientists suggests that global climate change will affect fish sizes in unpredictable ways and, consequently, impact complex food webs in our ocean