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Suad Aldarra awarded 2024 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Suad Aldarra has been announced as the recipient of the 2024 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. The prize is administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Creative Writing in the School of English
4 Nov 2024
Awards and Funding|Culture|Society
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Small Things Like These: Magdalene laundries drama a powerful rumination on compassion and its limits
The new film Small Things Like These prompts us to question the limits of compassion writes Ruth Barton, School of Creative Arts, in a piece for The Conversation.
4 Nov 2024
Culture|Research
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Professor Ruth Britto among four researchers to secure €10 million ERC Synergy Grant
Prof. Britto, from Trinity’s School of Mathematics, will work with three colleagues in an international project that seeks to develop new algorithmic methods with applications in mathematics, particle physics and gravity.
5 Nov 2024
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Trinity receives DFHERIS funding to conserve the Robert Fisk Archive
The Archive, spanning Robert Fisk’s 50-year journalistic career, was donated to the Library of Trinity College Dublin by Nelofer Pazira-Fisk.
5 Nov 2024
Community|Culture|Society
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The evolutionary benefits of being forgetful
Why do we forget things? Is it simply a sign of memory impairment, or are there benefits? Sven Vanneste and Elva Arulchelvan from the School of Psychology share insights on the evolutionary benefits of being forgetful in this piece first published in The Conversation.
5 Nov 2024
Research|Science|Society
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Scientists identify immune molecule that keeps metabolism in tune and on time
The discovery hints at why shift workers and others with irregular work, eating, or sleep patterns driven by the demands of modern life fall out of metabolic sync.
5 Nov 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Discover the future of urban living at the Smart Cities Urban Quest in Dublin’s Docklands
The Smart Cities Urban Quest: Adventure in the Docklands invites the public to dive into an exciting, hands-on experience that combines augmented reality, games, and quizzes, and offers a fresh perspective on smart city technology and its impact on urban life.
5 Nov 2024
Community|Society|Sustainability
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New Trinity Taskforce to hold first meeting on November 22
The Taskforce will have 26 members, including three nominated by the Trinity Students Union, two by the Central Societies’ Committee and four nominated by the Group of Unions.
6 Nov 2024
Community|Research|Society|Students
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Artist Isabel Nolan and Douglas Hyde Gallery set for 61st Venice Art Biennale
The selection of the team to represent Ireland was made following an open, competitive process, with international jury members.
6 Nov 2024
Arts|Culture
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Power grids supplied largely by renewable sources experience lower intensity blackouts
New research into the vulnerability of power grids served by weather-dependent renewable energy sources (WD-RESs) such as solar and wind paints a hopeful picture as Ireland attempts to meet its climate emissions targets.
7 Nov 2024
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Next four years of a Trump presidency won’t be as bad as the first four – they will be worse
In 2016, Trump relied on staff who did not share his aims. Now, he will return to the presidency with loyal staff members who have a clear agenda, writes Daniel Geary, School of Histories and Humanities, in an article first published in The Irish Times.
7 Nov 2024
Research|Society
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EVEREST Project aims to revolutionise study of extracellular vesicles
The project will bring together 21 institutions from 11 countries with a budget of €1.3 million to advance the study of extracellular vesicles.
7 Nov 2024
Innovation|Research|Science
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Trinity Celebrates its 2024/25 Sport Scholars
Trinity's new batch of Sport Scholarship students for 2024/2025 will be celebrated tonight at an event in the Dining Hall. During the event Trinity Sport student athletes will take part in a panel discussion on the ‘high-performance mindset’.
11 Nov 2024
Awards and Funding|Students
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TCIN artist-in-residence set for show at Molesworth Gallery
The show is the culmination of a year-long collaboration between the artist and the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, supported by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland, formerly Science Foundation Ireland.
8 Nov 2024
Arts|Research|Society
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New insights into the Denisovans – the new hominin group that interbred with modern day humans
Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered “hominin” group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding events that helped shape early human history.
8 Nov 2024
Research|Science
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Minister Colm Burke launches Professor Catherine Comiskey’s book “Addiction Research and Evaluation”
A new book from Catherine Comiskey, Professor in Healthcare Modelling and Statistics at the School of Nursing and Midwifery bridges the gap between research and practice in the complex field of addiction.
7 Nov 2024
Health|Research
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School of Medicine hosts 'Farming is Medicine' event
School of Medicine and Faculty of Health Sciences welcomed physician and author Professor Rupa Marya for public event.
28 Oct 2024
Environment|Health|Research|Society|Sustainability
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Biodiversity COP: Global climate efforts and gains made, but no clear agreement
Dr Siobhan McQuaid writes about her experience of COP16, the latest biodiversity summit, in an opinion piece for the Journal. She says there are many reasons to have hope.
11 Nov 2024
Business|Environment|Society|Sustainability
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Trinity students and staff observe COP29
The 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is taking place over the next two weeks in Baku, Azerbaijan. Trinity gained observer status last year, which means representatives access seminars, panels and networking opportunities, but not the negotiations.
11 Nov 2024
Sustainability
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Top ten priorities for future research on reducing and stopping psychiatric meds
Study hopes to inform the research agenda and help future research to focus on the questions that are most important to key stakeholders.
11 Nov 2024
Health|Research