Articles
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Trinity first in Europe for producing entrepreneurs for sixth successive year
Since 2006, Trinity alumni produced 277 entrepreneurs, formed 254 venture-backed companies, and raised capital of approximately US 4.8 billion.
12 Oct 2020
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Trinity Business School, daa win global award for executive education
A bespoke and customised innovation leadership programme developed by Trinity Business School in conjunction with daa has won the Silver award in the Global 2020 EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards. The EFMD Awards recognise excellence in the executive education space, in which programmes are designed and customised for organisations to facilitate transformation of both people and […]
21 May 2020
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Celebration of Language and Culture in the Heart of the City – Éigse na Tríonóide 2020 begins today
The annual festival, organised by the Students’ Union, student society An Cumann Gaelach and the university’s Irish Language Office, celebrates Irish language and culture.
10 Feb 2020
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Sustainability-minded ReFunk wins Provost Innovation Challenge
The team is building a platform that allows users to list unwanted belongings and materials, which another user can then collect and upcycle.
26 Nov 2020
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Trinity team launches SHARE IT – a sustainability impact assessment toolkit for food sharing initiatives across the globe
SHARE IT will help food sharing initiatives around the world document and communicate the impact of their activities on the sustainability of food systems.
27 Jan 2020
Research
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Trinity researchers discover how the brain ‘re-wires’ after disease
Trinity researchers are studying how the brain re-wires itself in neurological disease. The team is building treatments for today’s more common global conditions like Motor Neurone Disease (MND/ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy and their findings could impact rehabilitation for patients, the discovery of effective drugs and quantifying the potential efficacy of new therapies. The paper […]
17 Nov 2020
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Genes from scratch – far more common and important than we thought
The majority of unique genes in the species the scientists looked at do not result from simple divergence from genes existing in others. This is surprising -- as is the discovery that genes evolving from scratch can have the potential to confer significant advantages to species adapting to their environments.
17 Feb 2020
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Researchers to design new VR systems for healthcare, entertainment, and e-education
The project, SpheryStream, will ehance the visual sensation of future media systems and have uses in a variety of sectors, from healthcare to education.
25 Sep 2020
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Life before COVID: Health and habits of Ireland’s older people before crisis hit
TILDA researchers have released a comprehensive report detailing the health, social and economic circumstances of older adults in Ireland pre- COVID-19.
17 Dec 2020
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Let’s START talking about research! Trinity to host European Researchers’ Night
The annual Europe-wide event that showcases research and aims to bring researchers and the public closer together takes place on November 27th 2020.
18 Nov 2020
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Research highlights increased loneliness in lock-down for the over-70s
The joint report from TILDA and ALONE highlights the effects of COVID-19 measures on our older population.
14 Jul 2020
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‘Resetting’ immune cells improves traumatic brain injury recovery in preclinical trials
This research suggests that the impact of traumatic injury on brain degeneration may be modifiable a relatively long time after the injury was sustained.
25 Feb 2020
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Greek President receives Honorary Degree
Trinity recognised the rich academic and cultural links between Ireland and Greece today by awarding an honorary degree to the Greek President H.E. Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
17 Jan 2020
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Trinity researchers involved in new €5 million climate change project, Terrain-AI
The project, co-funded by Microsoft Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland, will see the collaborative group share their insights and models with other countries to help reduce global carbon outputs.
15 Dec 2020
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The shift to a more sustainable food system is inevitable – here’s how to make it happen
A new report from SAPEA, co-authored by Professor Anna Davies from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, lays out the social science evidence on how a transition can happen in an inclusive, just and timely way.
9 Apr 2020
Research
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Disentangling the psychological, behavioural, media and governmental responses to COVID-19 via a cross-border analysis
The research project is one of six Trinity projects awarded funding through the recent HRB/IRC 'Covid-19 Rapid Response Call'
30 Apr 2020
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Mass action needed to change US
Daniel Geary, Mark Pigott associate professor in American history, writing in the Irish Times that steps required to prevent police murdering of African Americans have been known for 50 years.
8 Jun 2020
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Trinity engineers use 3D printers at home in battle to tackle shortage of PPE
A father-sons team has produced over 1,000 face shield frames to date for the PPE-Hub and a further 300 full face shields, which have been donated to front line medical staff in hospitals, nursing homes and GP practices.
27 Apr 2020
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Irish business can do more to protect human rights defenders
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, and adjunct professor at the Centre for Social Innovation, Trinity Business School, says business should help protect human rights defenders
11 Sep 2020
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China’s quantum satellite enables first totally secure long-range messages
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harun Siljak writes how this technology is being used to reach a major milestone: long-range secure communication you could trust even without trusting the satellite it runs through.
16 Jun 2020
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