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Chemists create self-assembling material with suite of new properties

The material self-assembles into 2D networks in a predictable and reproducible manner and may one day have numerous applications.

15 Oct 2019

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Trinity researchers uncover critical metabolic switch for inflammatory diseases

The work identifies the protein, PKM2, as a potential therapeutic target for treating a host of diseases mediated by over-active immune cells.

21 Nov 2019

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Trinity students to represent Ireland at Enactus World Cup

The trip to Silicon Valley is the reward for winning the national version of a competition that celebrates positive innovations created at third-level institutions.

28 Jun 2019

Four in ten Irish companies currently use Artificial Intelligence (AI)

World AI experts are meeting in Dublin this week to develop international standards at an international plenary hosted by Trinity’s ADAPT and the National Standards Authority of Ireland.

8 Apr 2019

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Uncovering the Hidden Foundations of Cognition in Infancy

In his inaugural lecture as the Thomas Mitchell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor Rhodri Cusack addressed the important question – Why are human infants so slow to develop?

22 Feb 2019

Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Programme 2019

We celebrated the selection of 22 Laidlaw Scholars, the second cohort of Trinity students to join the Laidlaw network, on 7 May.

13 May 2019

What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about mega cities in Africa

Ricardo Reboredo explores how and why a major development billed as a game changed in the urban footprint of Johannesburg six years ago failed and how that relates to the broader African urban context.

26 Mar 2019

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Geneticists unlock ancient tales of cattle herding and evolution

The team deciphered the history of early bovines by sequencing 67 ancient genomes from both wild and domestic cattle sampled from across eight millennia.

11 Jul 2019

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Trinity ranked in 37th place in Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings 2019

The global higher education ranking is based on four core performance pillars: resources, engagement, outcomes and environment.

4 Jul 2019

Periodic Table projections light up Chemistry Week at Trinity

The projections highlight the serious threat posed to the existence of a growing number of elements through a lack of recycling old tech devices.

21 Nov 2019

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Station-less bike sharing in Dublin – faster, healthier, greener

Around 7.5% of the 6,000 weekly trips made via Bleeperbike could have happened by car or taxi, which saves an estimated five tonnes of carbon per year.

20 Jun 2019

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Trinity to ‘Go Atlantic Blue’ for World Oceans Day

Trinity will join the likes of Dublin Airport, King John’s Castle in Limerick and Baily Lighthouse in lighting its buildings blue.

7 Jun 2019

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Fr Tony Coote Assistant Professor in MND announced

Trinity College announces the Tony Coote Assistant Professor in Motor Neuron Disease (MND).

3 Sep 2019

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Trinity researchers find stark social inequalities in children’s body mass index

Researchers at Trinity College have found that socio-economic inequalities in children’s body mass index (BMI) emerge during the pre-school years and widen across childhood and into early adolescence

20 May 2019

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Irish 3 year olds are consuming up to 10 teaspoons of sugar a day

A new study from the Dublin Dental University Hospital at Trinity has shown that Irish 3 year olds are consuming, on average, 10 level teaspoons a day of 'free sugars'.

9 Aug 2019

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Trinity Student wins 2019 Mary Mulvihill Award

Trinity PhD student Laura Katharine Finnegan is the 2019 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students that commemorates the legacy of science journalist and author Mary Mulvihill.

24 May 2019

Professor Luke O’Neill is awarded prestigious EU ERC Award of €2.5m

These highly prestigious awards allow exceptional researchers to pursue ground-breaking research.

28 Mar 2019

Things people say about exercise that aren’t true

It can be hard to include exercise in our busy lives, despite the best of intentions. There are a lot of reasons people don’t exercise, and a lot of misconceptions about exercise. Here are nine common misconceptions about exercise and what research actually tells us.

16 Dec 2019

A revolutionary material that could protect aircraft and speed up internet connections

The new, biologically produced material, will be a material of choice for next-generation optoelectronic and photonic devices.

6 Sep 2019

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‘Invasion 1169’ conference on 850th anniversary of Anglo-Norman invasion

To mark the 850th anniversary of the Anglo-Norman invasion Trinity's Department of History is hosting an international conference, 'Invasion 1169', to re-evaluate the significance of the invasion and the impact it had on Ireland.

1 May 2019

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