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Left-hooks, doorings, poor road surface conditions, LUAS tracks and kerbs often involved in Irish cycling collisions

New research into cycling road traffic collisions has identified a list of common collision scenarios for Ireland and underlined previously underappreciated issues on our roads.

1 Sep 2021

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Three Trinity researchers win European Research Council Advanced Grants

Professors Jennifer McElwain, Seamus Martin and Daniel Kelly will pursue research projects in botany, immunity and inflammation, and bioengineering. Their awards bring the total number of ERC Investigator Grants awarded at Trinity under the Horizon 2020 funding programme to 44, with a total value of €83 million.

22 Apr 2021

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Scientists develop new strategy that rapidly quantifies transmissibility of COVID-19 variants

Their technique provides a new tool for tracking infection immunity over time and for analysing new vaccine candidates.

13 Oct 2021

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Trinity and Ryanair launch sustainable aviation research centre

A €1.5m donation will seed a multi-disciplinary team to engage in research around 1) sustainable aviation fuels, 2) zero carbon aircraft propulsion systems and 3) noise mapping. Ryanair has committed to 12.5% of its flights using sustainable aviation fuels by 2030.

29 Apr 2021

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Young adults vastly more affected by COVID pandemic than older people

“We’re meant to be crossing over … but the bridge is broken”: 2020 university graduates’ experiences of the pandemic in Ireland. A new study from Trinity College Dublin investigating the impact of the COVID pandemic on young adults finds that they are vastly more affected than older people, and the reverberations of the disruption to […]

13 May 2021

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