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Discovery offers significant hope for improved vaccines

Scientists have discovered there is a “Goldilocks” effect in identifying the size of a “vaccine adjuvant” that can trigger strong immune responses and, as an example, have shown that a safe, biodegradable adjuvant can boost the action of cancer-killing cells – if the particles are the correct size.

20 Jan 2023

Health|Research|Science

Trinity duo win ERC Proof of Concept grants

Drs Sarah McCormack and David Finlay have won highly competitive Proof of Concept grants and will now use the funds to take their ground-breaking research ideas towards exciting, impactful innovations.

24 Jan 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Size matters! Flock numbers and new faces are important in boosting flamingo populations

Flocking flamingos in groups of 50 or more and introducing new faces to a population may hold the keys to encouraging successful reproduction, according to a study published this month in Zoo Biology, which was led by Trinity zoologists.

26 Jan 2023

Environment|Research|Science

Brigit of Ireland: Saint or Goddess? Celebrating Ireland's complex icon

A study day to consider how best to celebrate the complex figure of Brigit will be hosted this weekend by Trinity's Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies in collaboration with Woman Spirit Ireland.

26 Jan 2023

Arts|Culture|Research|Society

How the EU got Brexit done: in conversation with Stefaan De Rynck

Trinity Long Room Hub will host a panel discussion with Stefaan De Rynck, Senior Advisor to the EU's Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier.

26 Jan 2023

Research|Society

Brigit of Ireland: Saint or goddess?

Ireland's new public holiday to celebrate the icon Brigit has been greeted with widespread enthusiasm. In this comment piece, Dr Mary Condren, Trinity’s Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, asks “who is Brigit, goddess or saint?”

30 Jan 2023

Culture|Research

ChatGPT: our study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals

Publishers and researchers should not necessarily see ChatGPT as a threat but rather as a potentially important aide for research argue Dr Brian Lucey, School of Business and Michael Dowling, Dublin City University, in this piece that was originally published in The Conversation.

30 Jan 2023

Business|Research|Society

Novel gene therapy shows promise for treating multiple eye diseases

The gene therapeutic approach, which shows promise for treating age related macular degeneration (AMD), may also be effective in treating other eye conditions such as glaucoma. It provided benefit in three additional models of mitochondrial dysfunction, including cells taken from patients living with an optic neuropathy.

30 Jan 2023

Health|Research|Science

St Brigid at home and on tour with Cuala

To celebrate St Brigid's Day, Dr Billy Shortall, research fellow at the Cuala Press Research Project, shows us how St Brigid was celebrated in the visual art of Cuala Industries, a female run arts and crafts cooperative in the early 20th century.

1 Feb 2024

Arts|Culture|Research

Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant awards

Drs Sarah Doyle and Marius de Leeuw have been successful in the latest round of results, which have been released today. They will explore how we can harness our immune system to fight blindness and seek models that could help us understand and explore uncharted sub-fields of physics.

31 Jan 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Professor Cliona O’Farrelly named 2022 AAAS Fellow

Cliona has been honoured for her outstanding achievements as a researcher in the field of comparative immunology.

31 Jan 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Public lecture series on history and culture of Ukraine

As we approach the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (Feb 24th) Trinity is launching a free public lecture series which aims to give an overview of Ukraine's complex history and rich cultural heritage.

2 Feb 2023

Culture|Research|Society

First sculptures of women installed in Trinity's Old Library

The new sculptures, the first to be commissioned in more than a century, will be displayed among the 40 marble sculptures that line Trinity’s historic Long Room, which were hitherto all of men.

1 Feb 2023

Culture|Society

World premiere of new opera by Trinity's Evangelia Rigaki and playwright Marina Carr

A new chamber opera, entitled 'Old Ghosts', will premier this week in MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland. The production features music by Evangelia Rigaki, Head of Trinity's Dept of Music, and text by playwright Marina Carr.

1 Feb 2023

Arts|Culture

Na chéad dealbha de mhná curtha i Sean-Leabharlann Choláiste na Tríonóide

Cuirfear na dealbha nua, arb iad na chéad dealbha a coimisiúnaíodh le breis agus céad bliain, ar taispeáint i measc na 40 dealbh bhrád mharmair ar an dá thaobh de Sheomra Fada stairiúil Choláiste na Tríonóide, ar dhealbha d’fhir iad ar fad go dtí seo.

1 Feb 2023

Culture|Research|Society

Trinity named 16th most international university in the world

Trinity College Dublin is the 16th most international university in the world in 2023, based on staff, students, research collaboration and international reputation, according to a new list from Times Higher Education (THE).

2 Feb 2023

Innovation|Research|Students

Google and Apple dominate as a 'duopoly' with their health app stores

Google and Apple are walking a tightrope between enforcement and oversight as distributors and developers for health apps, according to researchers in a new scientific article published in the prestigious journal NPJ Digital Medicine.

2 Feb 2023

Health|Research

95% of internationally trained doctors did not receive inter-cultural supports

A lack of inter-cultural supports for internationally trained doctors coming to work in Irish hospitals is putting further pressure on our already fragile health care system, according to new research from Trinity Business School.

2 Feb 2023

Health|Society

New course highlights diversity and inclusion in further education and training

Designed specifically for staff working in the Further Education and Training sector, the course was designed by Dr Joanne Banks and Professor Michael Shevlin from Trinity's School of Education in collaboration with Dr Anne Costelloe and Carrie Archer from City of Dublin ETB.

2 Feb 2023

Students

Trinity lead network of ‘the best minds in Ireland' studying oesophageal cancer

Researchers from the School of Medicine are leading the first all-Ireland Cancer Research Network (AllCaN) which has launched to coincide with World Cancer Day 2023.

7 Feb 2023

Health|Research