Articles
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Deltacron: what scientists know so far about this new hybrid coronavirus
Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity, Luke O'Neill, says we must keep a close eye on the latest COVID-19 variant of interest. "Deltacron" appears to be a wild child hybrid of delta and omicron but we don't know much about it yet.
21 Mar 2022
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Cultural resistance and human rights – inaugural lecture of Prof. Omar García
The role of the arts and humanities in addressing socio-political issues and human rights in Spain and Latin America was the focus of Professor Omar García’s inaugural lecture.
5 May 2022
Research
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Government funding of over €1 million will support renewable energy and decarbonising transport research
One project will focus on improving wind farm performance, while the other will examine the ability of mobility hubs and nudges to promote the switch to electric vehicles, with the goal of decarbonising the transport sector.
7 Mar 2022
Research
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Honorary degrees awarded at Trinity College
The degrees, Trinity’s highest honour, were awarded by Trinity’s Pro-Chancellor Shane Allwright in a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre.
8 Apr 2022
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Trinity study raises privacy fears over data collection by Google apps
The study finds that sensitive data is collected by Dialer and Messages apps, which are used to make and receive calls or to send and receive SMS and other messages, and are pre-installed on many Android phones.
14 Mar 2022
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Climate change and extreme weather will have complex effects on disease transmission
New research shows temperature variation affects pathogens and their hosts in distinct ways, and these organisms are influenced by the type of variation and the average background temperature it is applied to.
15 Feb 2022
Research
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Co. Wicklow student wins Trinity College Dublin E3 Global Challenges Award
Vagif Aliyef, from St David’s Secondary Co. Educational School in County Wicklow, created an AI-based app that allows students to generate flashcards from their notes for efficient revision.
14 Jan 2022
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Trinity’s TAP access programme inspires Oxford and Cambridge foundation courses
More than 100 students from under-represented backgrounds will this year gain access to a fully-funded place at Oxford or Cambridge after both British universities launched their first full foundation year programmes inspired by the hugely successful Trinity Access Programmes (TAP).
6 May 2022
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Trinity College Dublin Launches ‘Realising Potential: A Strategy for Sport and Physical Activity 2022 – 2026’
The new strategy by Trinity Sport was launched this week on campus. The vision ‘sport at the heart of the Trinity experience’ is for everyone, whatever their journey or level of engagement, whether it is for wellbeing, social, skill development, performance or fun.
4 Mar 2022
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Trinity to develop temporary exhibition during Old Library renovation
"We believe this choice of location offers the best possible solution for our staff, students and future visitors to College."
26 Jan 2022
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Tangent: new partnership with HSE to advance digital innovation in healthcare
The move will see the HSE collaborate with Tangent on two digital health accelerator programmes funded by EIT Health: InterSeed, and Healthy & Active Ageing. These are designed to advance breakthrough digital innovations in pharma and life sciences, and smart ageing.
25 Mar 2022
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New research on famous “supertramp” birds offers fresh evolutionary insights
The beautiful birds, which live in Southeast Asia, are providing unique information on how evolution is linked to flight ability and competition. These birds settle down more readily than would be expected—once they have colonised an island they tend to stay there rather than searching for others.
27 Jan 2022
Research
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Counting of Seanad bye-election underway
On the first count, Hugo MacNeill topped the poll with 2,068 votes followed by Tom Clonan (1,947) and Maureen Gaffney (1,882).
31 Mar 2022
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Health Sciences public lecture series launches
The series will bring Visiting Professors to Trinity throughout 2022, across a range of topics including racism and bias in health sciences education, accessibility, inclusion and action in medical education, breastfeeding supports for women, medicine and gender, queer mental health and more.
31 Mar 2022
Research
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Substantial inequalities in children’s engagement with remote schooling during first lockdown
A new study has shown that Irish primary school children were more engaged with remote schooling during the first Covid-19 lockdown if they had access to adequate digital technologies and had help from parents and teachers.
16 Feb 2022
Research
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CHARM-EU and Trinity win 2022 Education Award
Winning the Best International Collaboration Project Award , Trinity and CHARM-EU were recognised for their excellence in third level education.
13 Apr 2022
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Behind the Headlines panel asks if we are ‘Falling out of Love with Dublin?’
A discussion held on the planning and civic issues threatening Dublin and its historic landscape took place online Wednesday, 9 February 2022, at the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of its latest ‘Behind the Headlines” discussion.
14 Feb 2022
Research
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Biodiversity loss has knock-on effects on global markets
Losses in countries with smaller, less-developed economies, impact large, developed economies, according to a new study that shows pollinator declines and potential loss of pollination services can have widespread implications for global trade in food.
30 Mar 2022
Research
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School’s out: How lockdown highlighted educational inequality in Ireland
Remote learning required access to technologies that may have not been available to all students, and different levels of support may also have been provided by different schools.
15 Mar 2022
Research|Society
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Brain tumour related epilepsy: merging basic science with clinical practice
Professor Mark Cunningham, the Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of the Neurophysiology of Epilepsy in the School of Medicine, talks about his research to coincide with International Epilepsy Day.
14 Feb 2022
Research
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Deep learning and weather simulations discussed at applied mathematics meeting
Leading researchers in the field came together recently as Trinity played co-host to a prestigious annual meeting, in which a number of important applications were in the spotlight.
21 Jan 2022
Research
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CHARM-EU welcomes three new partners
Åbo Akademi University from Finland, Würzburg University from Germany, and Hochschule Ruhr West from Germany which to date has been an associate partner.
31 Jan 2022
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Unique Irish study sheds new light on long-term SARS-CoV-2 vaccine responses in older nursing home residents
The research, assessing COVID-19 antibodies before vaccination and at five weeks and six months after nursing home residents received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, provide strong support for the use of vaccine boosters in this cohort.
11 Jan 2022
Research
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Trinity researchers to use machine learning techniques to optimise wind farm performance
The project will assess the aerodynamics of wind farms and develop new controllers to optimise power production. These new controllers will use operational wind farm data to adaptively “learn” the best way to control wind farms.
19 Apr 2022
Research
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Find your Balance! College Health and Sports week: March 21-25
“We want to encourage everyone to find their balance now that life is starting to become more normal again,” said Trinity Health Promotion Officer Martina Mullin.
16 Mar 2022
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T-cells: the superheroes in the battle against omicron
Luke O'Neill, Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity, writes about Omicron and how our immune systems are fighting the common COVID-19 variant in this piece first published by The Conversation.
10 Jan 2022
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Books written and illustrated by Dublin schoolchildren go on display in Long Room
The exhibition marks the culmination of the annual Bookmarks programme organised by Trinity Access Programmes (TAP)
7 Apr 2022
Research
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Seachtain na Gaeilge i gColáiste na Tríonóide
Déanfar ceiliúradh ar ár dteanga agus ár gcultúr Gaelach trí réimse leathan imeachtaí a bheidh ar siúl idir 1-17 Márta 2022. Beidh fáilte roimh chách freastal ar na hócáidí seo.
2 Mar 2022
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Researchers launch Universal Design Guidelines for improving quality of life and COVID-19 infection control in residential care settings
The guidelines take into account many aspects of the physical environment across all parts of a setting and therefore, take a holistic and integrated approach across all spatial scales.
11 Mar 2022
Research
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Athchruthú fíorúil 3T de thaispeántas ealaíne na bliana 1922 a chuir Saorstát Éireann ar an ardán domhanda
3T den taispeántas ceannródaíoch ealaíne a cuireadh ar siúl i bPáras sa bhliain 1922, Exposition D’Art Irlandais, a d’fhógair Saorstát Éireann os comhair an domhain.
7 Feb 2022