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2015 €15 Coin Honours Nobel Laureate Ernest Walton

A €15 limited edition silver proof commemorative coin to honour Nobel Laureate Ernest Walton, former graduate and professor at Trinity, and his ground-breaking achievements in the field of physics has been launched.

20 Mar 2015

The People Behind the Post

A staggering 6,000kg of post is delivered to Trinity on average each month and over 1 million items have been sent from the College over the past four years. The hub of activity for meticulous sorting and distributing is the Mail Room.

20 Mar 2015

Scientists Sequence First Ancient Irish Human Genomes

Genetic influxes are likely to have brought cultural changes to Ireland including the transitions to agriculture, Bronze metalworking and possibly the western Celtic language.

28 Dec 2015

Dragain Mheánaoiseacha, Fionnachtana Scanrúla agus Lámhscríbhinní a bhí caillte le fada

Siompóisiam Choláiste na Tríonóide le Taighde Ceannródaíochta Staire faoi Bhaile Átha Cliath sna Meánaoiseanna a chur ar fáil do Ghnáthphobal Bhaile Átha Cliath

19 May 2015

Bloomsday Tweets and Deep Maps – New Uses for Digital Mapping

A social media map of Bloomsday celebrations and how digital humanities can respond to climate change are among topics to be explored at day-long event in Trinity College Dublin.

16 Jun 2015

Computer Scientists to Develop Next-Gen Big Data Systems for Tomorrow’s App Builders

ALIGNED will be led by computer scientists at Trinity to lay the foundations for big data systems to make light of the complexity, scale and inconsistency of data currently available on the web.

9 Mar 2015

Writer Sara Baume Awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2015

The award is given annually to an emerging Irish writerthrough the generosity of Dr Daniel Rooney, President Emeritus of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

20 Oct 2015

Bees Not the Pollination Be-All and End-All

Hoverflies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps and ants can – and do – make important contributions.

2 Dec 2015

International Employers Place Trinity Graduates Among World’s Elite

Trinity College Dublin is the only Irish institution to appear in the 2015 Global Employability Rankings.

23 Nov 2015

Scientists Persuade Volcanoes to Tell Their Stories

Secrets in magma crystals include details of volcanic history, which will help to explain global geography and predict future eruptions of active volcanoes.

25 Jun 2015

Scientists fill in the gaps of human hunter-gatherer history

An international team led by scientists in Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Cambridge University, has, for the first time, sequenced ancient genomes from the Late Upper Palaeolithic period. In doing so, the team has discovered a new strand of European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

16 Nov 2015

Trinity Top in Delivering Innovation from Research

Trinity College Dublin’s Research & Innovation won both Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards.

25 Nov 2015

Audio: Colm Tóibín Gives Public Talk on Same-Sex Relationships and Literature

The talk on on same-sex relationships and literature was organised by the School of English as part of Trinity Long Room Hub’s 'Behind the Headlines' discussion series.

18 May 2015

Trinity ‘Great War Revisited’ Exhibition Launched on Google

Rare and previously unpublished material held in Trinity College Library relating to WW1 will be brought to a global audience thanks to an online collaboration.

2 Jul 2015

Goethe-Institut Choir Concert to Benefit Organ Refurbishment in Trinity’s Public Theatre

The Goethe-Institut Choir will present a selection of Elizabethan and European choral music from the time of the foundation of Trinity College Dublin in 1592 on Friday 5th June.

28 May 2015

Corvil Backs Mathematics Studentships

The Summer Studentships will provide undergraduates with first-hand mathematical experience at network data analytics company, Corvil.

5 May 2015

Armenian, Austrian and Irish Students Win 2015 Grattan PhD Scholarships

The Grattan Scholars programme supports exceptional PhD students who are committed to understanding and improving society through their research, teaching and education.

20 Nov 2015

Postgraduate Online Courses

Trinity Online is pleased to announce the following online postgraduate courses commencing in September 2015.

27 Apr 2015

Better Memory in Old Age Linked with Neural Compensation

New research from the Institute of Neuroscience and the School of Psychology sheds light on how memory can remain efficient in spite of common age-related neural decline.

26 Jun 2015

TBSI Researchers Lead €2.5million Project to Tackle Autoimmune Diseases

This funding has been provided by SFI and international biopharmaceutical company, AbbVie.

21 Nov 2015