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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
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Beyond Sherlock Holmes: five Victorian detective stories you must read
Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't the only author spinning tales of cunning detectives. Dr Clare Clarke picks five Victorian detective stories you must read in this piece for The Conversation.
6 Jan 2022
Culture|Research
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NatPro Centre Awarded Green Level Certification
"Getting certified is a great feather in the cap of any laboratory, but achieving Green certification shows the depth and breadth of dedication that the team have for minimising the environmental impacts of lab practices."
20 Jan 2022
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Medical device and digital health startups pitch for a place on Medtech Innovator’s Showcase and Accelerator programme
The event taking place today, in Trinity Business School, will feature pitches from the best-in-class medical device and digital health companies in the region, selected from hundreds of applicants internationally.
25 Apr 2022
Research
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“If a female had once passed the gate …”- Exhibition marks 100 years of Trinity Women Graduates
Photographs, letters, administrative records and collected reminiscences trace the long campaign for admission, the achievements of early women graduates and the struggle for equality by female students and staff.
27 Apr 2022
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Pollution and teenage mental health, researchers call for further investigation
A systematic review has been conducted by researchers from the Trinity Centre for Global Health on how pollution exposure impacts teenage mental health.
17 Feb 2022
Research
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Trinity and Queen’s awarded €3.8m to establish All-Ireland Centre of Excellence in Economics, History & Policy
An All-Ireland Centre of Excellence in Economics, History and Policy is among 12 Trinity research projects funded under the Shared Island North-South Research Programme.
7 Apr 2022
Research
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100 years on Trinity conference considers the significance of the handover of Dublin Castle
Part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme, the two-day conference is exploring the context of the handover, the impression it made across the world, and the consequences it had for the emerging Irish State.
14 Jan 2022
Research
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EU research bodies encouraged to adopt ‘world class’ resource to enable AHSS integration & interdisciplinarity
A European Commission review of the Horizon 2020-funded SHAPE-ID project endorses its finding that widespread change to the science system is needed to enable interdisciplinary research.
13 Apr 2022
Research
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Low folate linked to risk of cognitive decline in later life – new TILDA study
A new study from researchers at The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin has found strong links between low levels of folate (the natural form of the dietary supplement, folic acid) and accelerated cognitive decline.
14 Jan 2022
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Trinity art installation to honour Sam the fox
Trinity College Dublin has released plans for its next art installation project in recognition of the importance of campus biodiversity and college’s diversity.
1 Apr 2022