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Health & Sports Week launch event celebrates free contraception for women aged 17-26
Healthy People, Healthy Planet is the theme of this year’s Health & Sports Week which kicked off with a celebration of the new government scheme which provides free contraception for women between 17 and 26.
27 Mar 2023
Culture|Environment|Health|Students
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Jo-Hanna Ivers to advise Citizen’s Assembly on Drugs Use
Jo-Hanna Ivers, Associate Professor in Addiction and Associate Dean of Civic Engagement & Social Innovation at Trinity College has been appointed a member of the Advisory Support Group to the Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use.
28 Mar 2023
Health|Society
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Seductive Concepts: How Management Fashions become Management Theories
Professor Catherine Welch will deliver her Inaugural Lecture on Tuesday 4th April at 6pm in the Dargan Lecture Theatre, Trinity Business School.
28 Mar 2023
Business
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Researchers tackle parasitic worms that infect millions worldwide
A new study published in the journal Immunity, by researchers at Trinity College and the University of Manchester has cast new light on how our immune system deals with parasitic worm infection.
29 Mar 2023
Health|Research|Society
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Jane Ohlmeyer wins prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant
Professor Ohlmeyer's €2.5 million VOICES project will recover the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland
30 Mar 2023
Awards and Funding|Culture|Research|Society
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Books written and illustrated by Dublin schoolchildren join Book of Kells Exhibition
An exhibition of 61 handmade books written and illustrated by Dublin primary school students was unveiled in the Long Room. The exhibition marks the culmination of the Trinity Access Programmes' Bookmarks initiative.
30 Mar 2023
Arts|Community|Society
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Trinitones to make debut on the big screen
From College Green to Hollywood Boulevard: Trinity’s all-male acapella group announce their involvement a forthcoming Hollywood feature film.
1 Apr 2023
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How a night of poor sleep can affect your next day at work – and four ways to function better
Trinity's Professor Wladislaw Riven with an interesting piece first published by The Conversation, with some handy hints for those who haven't slept well before work.
3 Apr 2023
Business|Health
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Trinity-led SHAPE-ID project at the forefront of new LERU report
LERU provides an important update to its seminal 2016 study on interdisciplinarity whose findings have been referenced worldwide. It also acknowledges the key insights that the SHAPE-ID (Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe) consortium has made to the field of interdisciplinary research since the 2016 report.
3 Apr 2023
Innovation|Research
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Rare 14-ft smalltooth sand tiger shark washes up on Wexford shore
A huge 14ft smalltooth sand tiger shark washed up at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, this weekend. Scientists believe it to be the first official record of the species being found in Ireland’s waters.
4 Apr 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Landlords and tenants could both be aggrieved by the government’s ‘first refusal’ plan
It is hard to fully tease out the constitutional issues which may arise from the announcement that tenants will get the first chance to buy their home from their landlord, writes Dr Sarah Hamill, School of Law, in a piece first published in The Sunday Business Post.
13 Mar 2023
Research|Society
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Are criminal proceedings the only route to truth for Baby John?
Dr Catherine Conlon writes about her research on concealed pregnancy in contemporary Ireland in this piece that was first published in The Irish Examiner.
29 Mar 2023
Research|Society
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First National Equality Charter Symposium
The First National Equality Charter Symposium ‘Aiming Higher, Moving Forward Together’ will be hosted in Trinity College Dublin on 19 April.
5 Apr 2023
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Trinity teams awarded funding in US-Ireland Research Programme
Four Trinity research groups have been named among 12 projects to receive funding under the US-Ireland Research Programme.
20 Mar 2023
Awards and Funding|Research
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How commercial actors influence and impact health and society
Trinity’s Dr Mélissa Mialon is co-author on two publications within the new Lancet Series that explores how companies shape our physical and social environments and highlights the need for clear frameworks to examine and differentiate among commercial entities, to understand how they help or hinder public health.
6 Apr 2023
Health|Research|Society
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International lessons from the Good Friday Agreement, 25 years on
Decades of peace efforts have created a remarkable wealth of human peacemaking experience in Ireland at all levels of society, from diplomats to community workers, says Dr David Mitchell, in this piece originally published in The Irish Independent.
6 Apr 2023
Research|Society
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Translation of Trinity research leads to FDA approval of Rett syndrome treatment
Dr Daniela Tropea’s story is an exciting example of success in translational research where findings in basic science translate into clinical applications, providing hope for patients and their families.
6 Apr 2023
Health|Research
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Pesticides detected in pollen and nectar may pose a long-term hazard for pollinators
Pesticides have been detected in flowers not targeted with the chemicals that could be an additional, underestimated threat to pollinators according to new findings by Trinity and DCU, published in the Science of the Total Environment.
6 Apr 2023
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Trinity honorary degrees mark Good Friday Agreement anniversary
Senior political adviser Martin Mansergh, former Downing Street Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell, activist Monica McWilliams, and American foreign policy strategist Nancy Soderberg received Trinity’s highest honour from Trinity’s Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre
6 Apr 2023
Awards and Funding|Community|Society
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A cellular identity discovery with the potential to impact cancer treatments
A team of scientists led by those in Trinity has discovered new mechanisms involved in establishing cellular identity, a process that ensures the billions of different cells in our bodies do the correct job.
7 Apr 2023
Health|Research|Science