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Sustainability Leadership Awards 2026

Provost Linda Doyle and Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout kicked off the awards held in Portal on Monday 9th March as part of Trinity's 24th annual Green Week. The awards are in their fourth year running, an initiative conceived and led by Sustainability Manager Jane Hackett.

11 Mar 2026

Sustainability

Mental health toll of flooding in Ireland highlighted in new research

The psychological impacts of flooding in Ireland often far outlast the physical damage, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University and National College of Ireland.

12 Mar 2026

Research|Society

“Is Tábhachtaí Dea-cháil ná Saibhreas"

Mar dhuine de bhunaitheoirí Chonradh na Talún sa bhliain 1879 is fearr cuimhne ar Mhícheál Dáibhéad sa lá atá inniu ann, ach bhí sé ina iriseoir fiosrúcháin freisin agus ina fhear feachtais agus aighnis ar son chúis an phoblachtachais, leasú chóras na bpríosún, oideachas nach mbeadh faoi stiúir eaglaisí agus cearta pinsin.

12 Mar 2026

Culture|Research

Community and inclusion celebrated at 35th Trinity Student Society Awards

TCD Women’s Health, Trinity VDP, and DUDJ were among the winners at the 2026 Student Society Awards.

18 Mar 2026

Community|Society|Students

Groundbreaking Trinity research reveals “leaky” brain barrier as driver of chronic brain damage in retired combat and collision sports athletes

The work, led by teams at Trinity and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Centre, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes.

18 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Science

A record 264 second-level 'Scholars’ graduate from Trinity

Delivered through Trinity Access Programmes (TAP), the Scholars Ireland initiative introduces Junior Cycle students to university-style learning and helps them see higher education as an achievable pathway.

19 Mar 2026

Community|Society|Students

Machine learning could help predict how people with depression respond to treatment

Trinity researchers have found that a machine learning model could help clinicians predict which people with depression are more likely to improve with digital cognitive behavioural therapy compared to antidepressant medication.

19 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Society

We are in a digital version of the enclosures – like the landowners, big tech has power without responsibility

Nana Nwachukwu, PhD Candidate based in Trinity's AI Accountability Lab, writes for The Conversation, saying the recent Grok controversy represents the endpoint of a longer withdrawal from the responsibilities that once accompanied control of digital infrastructure.

9 Mar 2026

Business|Culture|Research|Science|Society

The grief myth: it doesn’t come in stages or follow a checklist – like love, it endures

Our ideas about “normal” grief are deeply shaped by the world we have inherited, writes Aoife Lynam, School of Education, in a piece for The Conversation.

23 Mar 2026

Research|Society

Researchers offer an exciting treatment to target the host, and not the bacteria

This published research tells us that Trinity scientists have discovered a way to “train” the immune system to better fight drug-resistant infections like MRSA and TB. Today is World TB Day 2026.

24 Mar 2026

Health|Research

Irish Cancer Society invests in groundbreaking TSJCI research

To coincide with Daffodil Day 2026, it is a good time to explore four research projects at the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute (TSJCI) that have been funded by the Irish Cancer Society.

20 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health

“Tiny but beautifully formed”: Bronze Age spindle whorl connects ancient city of Troy to Ireland

A tiny Bronze Age spindle whorl, excavated from the ancient city of Troy, will take centre stage in Trinity this week as experts and artists gather to examine the biography of the only artefact from the ancient city of Troy in Ireland.

24 Mar 2026

Culture|Research

Young Dublin authors bring tales of new adventures to Trinity’s Old Library

An exhibition of 55 handmade books written and illustrated by Dublin primary school students marks the culmination of the Trinity Access Programmes Bookmarks initiative.

25 Mar 2026

Community|Culture

Trinity gains in 2026 QS Subject Rankings

Named as one of the world’s top universities for the study of 43 subjects in all, Trinity now ranks 10th in the world for Nursing, up from 20th in 2025.

25 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health

Why are there no gigantic dragonflies terrorising the skies today?

Gigantic dragonfly-like insects – the “griffinflies” – ruled the skies around 300 million years ago, but they have long been consigned to evolution’s graveyard.

25 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science

Earlier detection, better outcomes: Irish researchers target rising bowel cancer rates with new blood test

Researchers from Trinity, Dublin City University and University College Dublin will use funding of €670,000 from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund to develop a breakthrough blood-based screening test.

26 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths"

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.

26 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Health and Sport Week keynote: Dr May van Schalkwyk addresses industry harm

Dr May van Schalkwyk, public health doctor and researcher gave the Health and Sports Week keynote address in Trinity Long Room Hub this week to a full house with attendees from the civil service, health services, non-governmental organisations and activists from a wide range of sectors.

26 Mar 2026

Business|Health|Society|Sustainability

Why rural Ireland holds the key to transport decarbonisation

Recent research conducted through a collaboration between the Schools of Physics and Engineering, and published in the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, explores decarbonisation of transport, and the particular challenges that exist in Ireland due to our population density and geography.

31 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity team's new chip-scale light technology could power faster AI and data centre communications

Researchers at Trinity have developed a new light-based technology on a tiny chip that could help make the data centres behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global internet services faster and more efficient.

31 Mar 2026

Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability