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Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute to play major role in new cancer strategy

Trinity and St James’s Hospital jointly welcomed the announcement of the national cancer strategy and the key role that a new comprehensive cancer care centre will have as part of its delivery.

5 Jul 2017

New TILDA report assesses how people age in Ireland

New TILDA report assesses how people age in Ireland.

3 Mar 2017

Embracing Disruption: Finding Opportunities in Crises

The Trinity Global Business Forum looked at disruptive forces that currently prevail in the business environment.

3 Mar 2017

Engineers turn to the sea to reduce the environmental cost of energy production

Smaller, lighter devices that fix tidal arrays to the sea-floor may hold the key to making the tides a financially viable means of powering our 21st Century lives.

1 Nov 2017

University Times wins international award for best non-daily student newspaper

The University Times has won an international award for the best non-daily student newspaper from the Mark of Excellence awards presented by the Society of Professional Journalism (SPJ) based in the US.

30 May 2017

Trinity immunologist and LaunchBox graduate among Ireland’s Most Powerful Women

Professor Lydia Lynch and FoodCloud co-founder, Iseult Ward, were named in the Top 25 of WXN 2017 Ireland's Most Powerful Women.

22 Jun 2017

SHARECITY team shortlisted for food waste solution award

The team's SHARECITY100 Database disseminates information between planners, business owners and city residents that encourages more sustainable food production in cities across the world.

3 Feb 2017

‘From Decadence to Despair’ – Oscar Wilde Exhibition

Trinity celebrated one of its most famous and celebrated alumni with an exhibition entitled 'From Decadence to Despair' in Trinity's Long Room.

12 Oct 2017

Trinity Secondhand Booksale – 21 to 23 February

The event, which features thousands of novels, journals, pamphlets, guides and reference books, is the largest charity booksale in Ireland.

13 Feb 2017

Celebrating Jonathan Swift at Trinity on 350th anniversary

Library exhibition and international conference to mark Swift350.

6 Jun 2017

Risks and rewards of artificial intelligence

The risks and rewards of artificial intelligence and the dangers of digital manipulation were among topics explored at a public lecture in Trinity College Dublin.

16 Oct 2017

Engineers’ smart machine wins National Instrument innovation award

The machine is reconfigurable so it can be re-assembled to perform different tasks. It will be put to use in the factories of the future.

12 Dec 2017

Economic impact of the League of European Research Universities

In 2016, the 23 member universities of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) generated a collective economic value of €99.8 billion in Gross Value Added and 1.3 million jobs.

1 Dec 2017

Hamilton Mathematics Institute welcomes two Fields Medal winners

Trinity welcomed two Fields Medal winners, Maxim Kontsevich (IHES) and Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University), to the HMI mini-conference.

13 Feb 2017

Douglas Hyde Gallery appoints new director

Taking up her new post at the end of May, the first solo exhibitions by artists Isabel Nolan and Brendan Earley under Georgina Jackson's directorship have just opened.

1 Aug 2017

Trinity Walton Club team takes top prize at Ultimate Pitch Event

The successful team, comprised of teenage 'Alphas', designed a backpack that minimises back pain.

5 Sep 2017

Plant protein may hold the key to fighting hunger and global warming

New research shows that plant protein sourced from legumes such as peas, beans and lentils has the highest nutrient density and the lowest environmental production costs.

20 Oct 2017

Ireland joins leading international astronomy collaboration

Ireland is to join the International LOFAR Telescope collaboration, which will enable researchers to study solar activity and exploding stars, search for new planets, and explore the distant universe.

29 Jun 2017

Chemistry student represents Ireland at Nobel laureate meeting

PhD candidate in Chemistry at Trinity, Eoin McCarney, discussed the next-gen science that will lead us into the future with a number of Nobel Prize winners.

11 Jul 2017

Trinity Student Awarded First Schwarzman Scholarship for Ireland

Trinity College Dublin’s Lara Connaughton is the first Irish recipient of a Schwarzman Scholarship in Tsinghua University, Beijing.

3 Mar 2017

Scientists make major breakthrough in smart printed electronics

Their leading innovation could transform everyday products (like your milk carton) into intelligent smart devices.

7 Apr 2017

‘Marine repairmen’ – little limpets are construction workers of the seashore

Limpets can repair their damaged shells so that they are as strong as the originals, but are still vulnerable to ’spalling' – a well-known cause of failure in engineering materials.

19 Jan 2017

Comhaltacht in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann bronnta ar Ollamh na Tríonóide

Tá Ollamh le Tíreolaíocht Choláiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath, Anna Davies, i measc an 18 comhalta nua de chuid Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann a fógraíodh inniu.

26 May 2017

How healthy is your bicycle commute in Dublin?

A new study shows that the overall societal health benefits of cycling to work can mask some detrimental effects such as increased collision risk and exposure to pollutants.

7 Jun 2017

Politics, partners and pride: why Air Berlin is down but not yet out

These airlines are in trouble due to economic failure, but their future is very much in the hands of political power, says Padraic Regan, Assistant Professor in Marketing and Strategy.

29 Aug 2017

A “fundamental breakthrough” for the future of designing materials

A new understanding of how materials form at the nano scale will impact how they are designed -- ultimately enabling more efficient devices and extending battery life.

28 Jul 2017

Student start-ups target investors at LaunchBox 2017’s Demo Day

This year’s ten companies address unmet market needs across a variety of sectors, including online ticket re-sales, language education, online dating and bespoke tourism.

30 Aug 2017

Launch of first major Irish exhibition on Oscar Wilde

The highly personal exhibition featuring letters, photographs, theatre programmes and memorabilia maps out the Anglo-Irish playwright's meteoric rise to fame and also his dramatic fall from grace.

12 Oct 2017

We built a robot care assistant for elderly people – here’s how it works

Assistant Professor, Conor McGinn, with a piece published by The Conversation about the development of Stevie -- Ireland's first prototype robot for assisted care.

21 Nov 2017

How our ability to see, feel and hear tells us about the workings of the brain

'Perception in mind: how our ability to see, feel and hear tells us about the workings of the human brain'

15 Dec 2017