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Professor Alan Irvine elected as a Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow

Professor Irvine joins the RSE’s current roll of around 1,600 leading thinkers and practitioners from Scotland and beyond, whose work has a significant impact on the world.

30 Mar 2021

Tech startup Field of Vision wins LaunchBox 2021

Field of Vision offers a groundbreaking handheld device, which allows visually impaired individuals to feel the action of live sport. Those behind the startup comprised one of 10 student entrepreneur teams, who sought investment from venture capitalists and angel investors at the conclusion of LaunchBox 2021.

30 Aug 2021

The return of the morning commute will ruin productivity, Trinity research reveals

New research from Wladislaw Rivkin at Trinity Business School, Fabiola Gerpott and Dana Unger demonstrates that commuting reduces productivity at work by draining mental energy, effecting our ability to fully focus on what we’re doing when we finally arrive at work.

28 Apr 2021

Magnetic material invented by Irish scientists breaks the record for super-fast switching

This discovery demonstrates the potential of the material for a new generation of energy efficient, ultra-fast computers and data storage systems.

11 May 2021

Trinity ranks 101st in QS World University Rankings 2022

Trinity saw a rise in academic reputation but a countervailing decline in global scores associated with staff-student ratios, where all Irish universities struggle to do well.

8 Jun 2021