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Two out of three ain’t bad… or is it?

New research highlights how efficient our third-level institutions are

12 Sep 2016

Scientists Blueprint Promising Antimicrobial Candidate

The blueprint could aid the development of more effective drugs to fight common but devastating bacterial infections.

18 Feb 2016

Rugby Stars Raise Money For Cancer Research at Trinity

Charity cycle this year features Tomas Castaignède and Mike Tindall

15 Apr 2016

‘People With Intellectual Disability Have Been Silenced Too Often’

We, as a society, need to tackle continued physical segregation, political invisibility and abuse of human rights of people with intellectual disability.

10 May 2016

Student entrepreneurs develop Matchday to ‘gamify’ live sports

The Matchday team hopes to make live sports more engaging for viewers while simultaneously connecting sports bodies and organisations with their viewers.

11 Oct 2016

The Brexit Debate

The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy will host a critical analysis of some of the key political, legal and economic issues relating to the question being put to voters on June 23 2016.

23 May 2016

Field Test Exhibition

11 Mar - 5 Jun

21 Mar 2016

Capital Gains – the Value in Putting a Price on Nature

We now have a means for assessing how best to manage natural capital, which is worth at least €2.6 billion/year in Ireland.

18 Apr 2016

Readings, Translations & Debate – Trinity Marks Proclamation Day

Trinity marked Proclamation Day with a series of events including the launch of a collection of 17 translations of the 1916 Proclamation.

15 Mar 2016

New Understanding Of TB Could Lead To Personalised Treatments

Trinity researchers provide breakthrough in how to treat patients

17 Feb 2016

Experts discuss data issues around new driving technologies

To make the most of new driving technology possibilities, such as self-driving vehicles and accurate traffic delay notifications, we will need to find new data solutions.

13 Sep 2016

A ‘Game-Changer’ – Latest TB Research From Trinity

New findings especially useful for drug-resistant forms of the disease

21 Mar 2016

Minister for Education launches Irish-American education and innovation forum

Trinity hosts major symposium as part of Aer Lingus College Football Classic

1 Sep 2016

Study Raises Concerns For Young LGBTI

Trinity report one of the largest of its kind

22 Mar 2016

Trinity Counts Down to Tobacco Free Zones on Campus

The launch of the countdown to the opening of three Tobacco Free Zones on Trinity’s main campus took place on World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2016.

31 May 2016

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin Has Updated its Statutes

The Statutes contain the basic internal laws, structures and rules of the College and University and provide co-ordination with and expand on the provisions of the Universities Act, 1997 and of the Trinity College, Dublin (Charters and Letters Patent Amendment) Act, 2000.

18 Mar 2016

Trinity Receives Irish Research Council New Foundations Funding

New Funding Programme Supports Research on Civic Society and Public Policy Issues

16 May 2016

Trinity Kidney Health Centre Receives Research Boost

New study focuses on alternative treatment to biopsies

15 Apr 2016

Understanding ‘Immune SOS Signal’ May Lead to New Psoriasis Therapies

Scientists have discovered which molecules kick the SOS signaler into action. They have patented inhibitors of these, which may be used to treat psoriasis sufferers.

14 Jan 2016

New era in geo-analysis as iCRAG launches micro-beam analysis lab at Trinity

The TIGER, funded by SFI, uses the latest in detector technology. It will be used to develop new approaches to resource and energy efficiency.

9 Dec 2016

Autism Registry Project to Identify Gaps in Services

It is hoped that insights will pinpoint exactly what is needed to help families

9 Jun 2016

New study provides picture of rare kidney disease in Ireland

Researchers in Trinity College Dublin have published the first study to report national incidence rates of a rare kidney disease, anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease. Their study, published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, also showed clustering of cases in time and space, which suggests that there may be an unidentified environmental trigger for the onset of the disease. Professor and Consultant of Nephrology at Trinity’s School of Medicine, Mark Little.

8 Aug 2016

Intensely painful trigeminal neuralgia illuminated “from bench to bed”

World experts will discuss treatments as patients share their own experiences at a symposium dedicated to raising awareness about one of the most painful conditions known to science.

7 Oct 2016

Minister English Announces €50m Expansion of SFI ADAPT Research Centre for Digital Content Technology

ADAPT will focus on developing next generation digital content technologies that aim to enhance people’s lives by helping to analyse, personalise and deliver digital content more effectively.

13 Jan 2016

Scientists seek next-gen whooping cough vaccines

The €28 million project will bring together scientists from 22 countries, with the pre-clinical work led by those from Trinity.

8 Aug 2016

Supplemental Examinations 2016 – Bus Strikes

To facilitate travel to the campus due to the bus strike which has been announced for 8th and 9th September 2016, the start time of all examinations scheduled for these dates will be delayed by 30 minutes.

7 Sep 2016