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Landmark deal for UQ-Trinity inflammation startup

A Trinity College Dublin campus company developing treatments for inflammatory diseases based on Trinity research has been acquired in a landmark deal – one of the largest in Irish biotech history.

21 Sep 2020

ADAPT and OSi enable open data access for COVID-19 app developers and researchers

Open access to the COVID-19 Health surveillance monitor via the Geohive’s Dataportal and the government’s Open Data portal will be a major help to researchers and app developers.

28 Apr 2020

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Trinity Business School ranked best in Europe for gender balance in Executive MBA rankings

Trinity Business School has risen to 11th position in Europe and 4th across the UK and Ireland in the 2020 Executive MBA rankings produced by The Economist.

29 Jun 2020

Plant diversity makes West Africa’s shea trees bear more fruit

Aoife Delaney, from Trinity's School of Natural Sciences, explains how ecosystem services provided by tree and shrub diversity support the well-being of millions of people in West Africa.

12 Oct 2020

COVID-19 research projects at Trinity awarded government ‘rapid response’ funding

The eight research projects will further our understanding of COVID-19 and find solutions to the challenges the pandemic presents.

14 Dec 2020

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New €2.3 million EU research project will use big data toolkit to study debilitating condition of Vasculitis

The project will link vasculitis registries across Europe into a single European dataset, and thus open the door to new research into these challenging diseases.

25 Sep 2020

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Palestinians will never be convinced a deal with Israel is worth making if annexation is packaged as peace

Writing for The Conversation, Trinity's Professor Brendan Browne responds to the so-called “deal of the century” for Israel-Palestine “peace” unveiled in Washington this week.

30 Jan 2020

Taoiseach addresses future of Europe event as part of Hist250 celebrations

President Michael D.Higgins opened a week-long series of events to mark 250 years of Trinity College Dublin’s Historical society, more commonly known as The Hist, on Monday evening.

4 Mar 2020

New discovery provides hope for improved MS therapies

The scientists' work highlights the significant potential of drugs targeting a specific immune molecule (IL-17) implicated in MS.

4 Feb 2020

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Bottle-fed babies may consume millions of microplastic particles, our research suggests

A thought-provoking piece of research led to this article, written by Dunzhu Li and Yunhong Shi, from Trinity's School of Engineering.

30 Oct 2020

Adults over 70 the fabric of their community, new findings released

The findings come at a time when the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on our older population are being discussed nationally.

25 Mar 2020

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New studies show Irish diet is unsustainable – nutritionally, financially and ethically

Multiple sources of animal protein in our diets score poorly from a nutritional-financial cost perspective, while alcohol consumption accounts for less than 7% of calorie intake but 25% of daily cost for Irish adults.

17 Apr 2020

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What drives zoo attendance and how does this impact conservation in the wild?

Zoos are making significant, positive impacts on our attempts to conserve biodiversity as our planet enters its sixth mass extinction.

5 Feb 2020

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Professor Mathias Senge awarded prestigious international fellowship

His collaborative research with the Technical University of Munich will advance molecular design and control of nanomaterials with tunable electronic, photonic, and chemical functionalities.

25 Jun 2020

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What does Joe Biden mean for Brexit? A quick primer on the current state of play

Etain Tannam, Associate Professor in International Peace Studies at Trinity, writes about the implications Joe Biden's election win will have on Brexit in a piece first published by The Conversation.

16 Nov 2020

Ecosystem ‘tipping points’ unhelpful for developing environmental policies – largest ever synthesis of global climate change research

The scientists behind the work believe policy makers should readdress the use of thresholds in ecosystem management and instead act according to the precautionary principle.

17 Aug 2020

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Ceiliúradh Teanga agus Cultúir i gCroílár na Cathrach – Éigse na Tríonóide 2020

Déanann an fhéile, arna n-eagrú ag Aontas na Mac Léinn, An Cumann Gaelach agus Oifig na Gaeilge i gColáiste na Tríonóide, ceiliúradh ar an nGaeilge agus ar an gcultúr Gaelach trí réimse leathan imeachtaí a chur ar siúl le linn na seachtaine.

10 Feb 2020

Ecologists assess biodiversity via acoustic surveys in sub-tropical Japan

The work underlines the great potential that acoustic surveys have for characterising the biodiversity of habitats while also highlighting some major potential pitfalls.

16 Nov 2020

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Scientists make fresh call for policy makers to protect pollinators

More than 20 pollinator experts from 18 different countries looked at a range of wildlife habitats on farmland and found that despite investing in Ecological Focus Areas are failing to provide all the resources insect pollinators require.

17 Feb 2020

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Dementia diagnosis vital for people with an intellectual disability

Research shows the earlier that dementia is detected, the sooner support can be put in place to optimise quality of life for the person living with dementia.

21 Sep 2020

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