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Creative Futures Forum explores future of creativity, AI and digital transformation

Participants collectively explored how artificial intelligence (AI), immersive technologies, and digital transformation are reshaping creativity, authorship, education, innovation, and the future of creative work.

21 May 2026

Arts|Business|Community

Trinity’s Cian Morgan wins 2026 Mary Mulvihill Award

Medical student Cian Morgan won the €2,000 top prize in the annual science media competition for third-level students, while Aoibheann Kearins, who has just completed a BA in Physics at Trinity, received a €500 judges’ highly commended award.

21 May 2026

Awards and Funding|Students

Trinity trio elected Members of the Royal Irish Academy

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) celebrated Admittance Day on Friday 22 May, where 29 newly elected Members were officially admitted to the Academy for their exceptional contributions to the sciences, humanities and social sciences, as well as to public service.

26 May 2026

Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Society

Professor Samson Shatashvili appointed to Balzan General Prize Committee

Professor Samson Shatashvili, University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847) and Director of the Hamilton Mathematics Institute at Trinity, has been appointed a member of the Balzan General Prize Committee.

26 May 2026

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity to host new research on how immune system repairs brain

Prof. Denise Fitzgerald, from Trinity’s School of Medicine, has been awarded €6.26 million Research Professorship funding from Research Ireland to investigate how ageing affects the ways the immune system helps repair brain tissue in illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

27 May 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science