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Why Brexit is causing turmoil for the pound and other markets

Trinity's Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Brian Lucey, contributes to a piece originally published by The Conversation.

14 Dec 2018

Pompeii should teach us to celebrate people’s lives, not mock their death

Doctoral Researcher in Classics, Ellen Finn, with an article published by The Conversation around the ethics of the “meme-ification” of the dead and our own often abstract perception of death and dying.

26 Jun 2018

Watch live as Nobel winners ponder the future of biology at Schrödinger at 75

Trinity will later this week welcome five Nobel winners as speakers to a major international meeting that marks 75th anniversary of Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? lectures.

3 Sep 2018

Trinity launches new Employability Award – Professional Services Pathway

A new Trinity Employability Award – Professional Services Pathway, run in partnership with Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC, has been launched.

19 Oct 2018

Trinity student wins international award for undergraduate research in bird ecology

Lyndsay Walsh won the award in the Earth & Environmental Sciences category for her work in assessing bird abundance and diversity in the tropical forests of Mexico.

24 Sep 2018

Minister Donohoe launches ADAPT Centre’s new FinTech strategy

The ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin will lead the €5 million research programme ‘FinTech Fusion’, which will advance innovations in Blockchain and FinTech research.

21 Sep 2018

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins prestigious Breakthrough Prize

The Prize, valued at $3 Million, recognizes Bell Burnell’s 1967 detection of pulsars (radio signals from rapidly spinning, super-dense neutron stars) and her lifetime of inspiring scientific leadership.

7 Sep 2018

Enduring Fictions: Celebrating ‘The Long Gaze Back’

A literary and musical celebration of the tradition of women’s writing in Ireland was hosted by the School of English this week in Trinity's Regent House.

29 Mar 2018

Engineers’ Zero-G space research shows how to build stronger metal components

Stronger components will open new doors in additive manufacturing, which had a global market of £3.59bn in 2015, and which has grown at an annual rate of 31.5%.

7 Mar 2018

New Report on Irish Government’s Transparency

A new report on the Irish government’s transparency shows no progress in anti-corruption measures, or climate policy development, but does find significant progress in the governance of charities,

17 Jun 2018

2018 Constantia Maxwell Scholarship

This scholarship seeks to acknowledge the quality of entrants to one taught Masters student in each school in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS), which aims to support and develop gifted postgraduate students.

29 Jan 2018

Poet Thomas Kinsella is honoured for his lifetime achievement in poetry

Trinity recognised the major Irish poet, Thomas Kinsella, Galway historian, Catherine Corless, and the American physicist Michal Lipson for their contribution to society at the honorary degree ceremony.

7 Dec 2018

Children’s Summer Sports Camps

Trinity College multi-sport summer camps for childrenaged 4 to 14 years

30 May 2014

Professor Luiz DaSilva is new Director of CONNECT Centre

Professor of Telecommunications at Trinity College Dublin, Luiz DaSilva, has been appointed Director of CONNECT.

27 Feb 2018

Trinity Creative Challenge Award Winners Announced

?Awards totalling €40,000 to fund innovative creative arts projects were announced.

31 Jan 2018

Future Breath exhibition to launch at Science Gallery Dublin

This evolving work by Siobhan McDonald focuses on the importance of the air we breathe and the threat that plants and nature face in the wake of climate change.

12 Dec 2018

Dementia-friendly hospital guidelines from a Universal Design approach

The guidelines should help physical hospital environments provide a better experience for people with dementia, as well as their families and caregivers.

2 Jul 2018

Trinity trio secure SFI-National Natural Chinese Science Foundation funding

Trinity researchers, Professors John Donegan, Luiz Da Silva, and Plamen Stamenov, won three of the eight new funding awards.

28 Jun 2018

Exciting climax to rugby Colours

Disappointment for the women's team and a dramatic victory for the men

9 Apr 2018

Trinity unveils plans for Grand Canal Innovation District centred on a new campus in the heart of Dublin’s docklands

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar T.D. and Provost Patrick Prendergast have launched a far-reaching plan for the creation of the Grand Canal Innovation District in Dublin.

12 Jul 2018