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School of Nursing & Midwifery receives Bronze Athena Swan Award
The School of Nursing & Midwifery has achieved a Bronze Athena Swan Award, recognising its dedication to advancing gender equality and fostering inclusivity across academic, learning, and healthcare environments. This significant milestone underscores the School’s ongoing commitment to creating a fair, inclusive, and diverse community.
6 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Community
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16 candidates nominated to contest Seanad election
This is the last time that the University of Dublin constituency will elect three Senators to the upper house of the Oireachtas. From 2026, Trinity graduates, along with graduates of other higher education institutions who hold Irish citizenship, will elect six Senators to the Seanad’s Higher Education constituency.
6 Dec 2024
Community|Society
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Network raising awareness of ovarian cancer wins Irish Healthcare Award 2024
The Irish Network of Gynaecological Oncology (INGO) is coordinated by Dr Sharon O’Toole in the School of Medicine
9 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Society
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Smart Docklands funds four projects to address community need
Thee successful teams received seed funding of €12,500 each to tackle challenges across environmental monitoring, community development, and antisocial behaviour, and to create a more sustainable, inclusive, and enjoyable Docklands for all.
9 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Community|Society
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Christine McGarrigle awarded prestigious National Institutes of Health grant for spousal caregivers research
Research will explore resilience of spousal caregivers across a number of countries, who face unique challenges in supporting partners living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD).
10 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Research
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Akara Robotics deploys two decontamination robots to NHS hospital
The Irish robotics startup, which spun out from Trinity, has developed two decontamination robots that have been deployed in a UK hospital, with the important mission of cleaning its wards and operating theatres more efficiently.
11 Dec 2024
Health|Innovation|Research|Society
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Provost presents Trinity Civic Engagement Awards
Congratulations to Prof Eimear McGlinchey, Dr Erica Krueger, Beth Corcoran and Zachary Chambers on receiving these awards
12 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Community|Society
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Professor Mary McCarron wins HRCI research impact award
Professor McCarron was presented with the award for her work on transforming dementia care for people with intellectual disabilities.
13 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Research
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Christmas greetings – Trinity holiday closure arrangements 2024/2025
Access to the University over the Christmas and New Year holidays will be reduced at the end of business on Monday the 23rd of December 2024 to the start of business on Thursday the 2nd of January 2025.
16 Dec 2024
Community
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Exploring role of understudied dysfunctional immune cells in severe COVID-19
Study focuses on understanding how ‘notoriously understudied’ immune cells behave abnormally in patients with severe COVID-19 and provides insights into mechanism behind COVID-19 disease progression.
18 Dec 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Trinity joins the Alliance for Open Media
Researchers will now collaborate with the Alliance’s community of internet and media technology member companies to drive open standards for cutting-edge video, audio, and multimedia advancements worldwide.
18 Dec 2024
Innovation|Research|Science
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Research programme focuses on early-detection and PREVENT-ion of dementia and Alzheimer’s
The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) recently hosted the PREVENT General Assembly where 50 global experts in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease came together to discuss and present on research findings into the prevention and early-detection of these diseases.
25 Nov 2024
Health|Research
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Three awards announced for Trinity researchers in new HRB Evidence for Policy programme
The School of Medicine researchers won three out of seven awards given for patient-oriented research to generate evidence that will strengthen policy development or evaluate how policy is currently implemented.
20 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Society
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Critical need for advance care planning in enhancing end-of-life experiences for older adults
New research from TILDA and NICOLA provides a first-of-its kind snapshot of end-of-life experience for older people on the island of Ireland.
19 Dec 2024
Health|Research
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Six early career Trinity researchers win Research Ireland Enterprise Partnership funding
This scheme provides funding to help bring together researchers with an enterprise or employer to collaborate on research of mutual interest.
20 Dec 2024
Awards and Funding|Research
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UKCRF Poster Prize winning entry from the Wellcome-HRB CRF at St James’s Hospital
The prize is an acknowledgment of the hard work and continuous efforts of the CRF to improve its processes, and validates the dedication that the CRF put into enhancing the quality of their work and patient care.
30 Jul 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation
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Green Week '24 - 'Healthy Planet, Healthy People'
This has been Trinity’s 22nd year marking Green Week. The event started in 2003 to honour the late Professor Simon Perry, who started the College Recycling and Environment Committee, now known as the Green Campus Committee. After his untimely passing in 2002, the Green Campus Committee decided to hold the first Trinity Green Week in his honour, and the College’s Green Week has grown in strength every year since.
19 Mar 2024
Community|Environment|Students|Sustainability
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New study advances understanding of brain responses to emotionally-charged scenes
A new study published by Prof Sonia Bishop in Nature Communications advances our understanding of how the brain responds to emotionally charged objects and scenes.
9 Jul 2024
Research|Science
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Storm Debi Update
The university will be closed until the red warning expires which is currently at 8.00am, Monday 13 November.
12 Nov 2023
Community|Students
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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch: Booker prize-winning novel is a distinctly Irish tale of civic and ideological collapse
Prof. Eve Patten writes for The Conversation about Paul Lynch's book 'Prophet Song' which won the 2023 Booker Prize.
28 Nov 2023
Arts|Culture|Research|Society
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What is hope and why do we need it?
Professor Brian Lawlor (Global Brain Health Institute) discusses why hope is not a given, and why we have to work at it, and connect outside of ourselves.
2 Jan 2023
Health|Research
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Ready, Set, Go: Have your say on the Provost’s Innovation Challenge 2023
The annual Provost's Innovation Challenge@Tangent is an intensive 3-day hackathon when Trinity students from multiple disciplines gather to brainstorm solutions to some of our biggest social issues.
3 Jan 2023
Environment|Innovation
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Study: Voting behaviour and exposure to Russian Twitter campaigns in 2016 US election
An international research study involving researchers in Ireland, Europe and the USA found that that despite Russia’s disinformation operations on social media, there were no measurable changes in attitudes, polarisation, or voting behaviour among those exposed to the foreign influence campaign on Twitter.
10 Jan 2023
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Trinity tree of the month- the Common Ash
This January we are featuring one of Ireland’s tallest native tree species, the Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior, or Fuinseog in Irish). The tree is located in the South Arboretum of Trinity College Botanic Garden beside Trinity Hall in Dartry.
11 Jan 2023
Sustainability
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Predisposition to accidental awareness under anaesthesia identified
New markers in brain structures and function which could help identify people who require a higher than average dose of anaesthetic have been identified by researchers in the School of Psychology.
12 Jan 2023
Health|Research
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Bees exposed to EU’s most common weedkiller via wildflower nectar
Bees may be at risk from exposure to glyphosate – an active ingredient in some of the EU’s most commonly used weedkillers – via contaminated wildflower nectar, according to new research from Trinity and DCU scientists.
17 Jan 2023
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Separation leads to significant gender differences in parent-child time
After parental split up mother-child time doubles, two-parent time declines threefold, and father-child time remains low, according to new research from sociologists in Trinity and UNED Madrid, Spain.
17 Jan 2023
Research|Society
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Provost's Fellowship in Curating 2022-23
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to welcome Aisling Clark to the team as the second Provost’s Curatorial Fellow. Established in 2020, the Provost’s Fellowship in Curating offers recent graduates of Trinity College Dublin the opportunity to work within The Douglas Hyde over a period of twelve months.
18 Jan 2023
Arts|Awards and Funding
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Research indicates wider benefit to AstraZeneca vaccine
Data suggests that the vaccine may boost immune responses to bacterial infections and therefore protect the recipient from more than COVID-19.
18 Jan 2023
Health|Research
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"We're just trying to win"-Trinity Meteors eye National Cup Final
The Paudie O’Connor Cup final will be played on Sunday 22nd January from 17:30 at the National Basketball Arena and will be live on TG4 and basketballireland.tv
18 Jan 2023