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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