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Trinity placed 81st in world in QS University Rankings

Trinity’s Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: "We need proper sustained long-term investment in people and infrastructure to ensure the conditions exist for our students and staff to excel. Investment such as this in higher education benefits our students, our society, and Ireland’s standing in the world.”

27 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Research

“The start of something big” – first compelling evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves in the cosmos

Scientists from Trinity are part of the European Pulsar Timing Array, which joins teams worldwide in today announcing evidence for gravitational wave signals of cosmological origin. They believe these ripples in space-time, predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, are produced by pairs of supermassive black holes.

29 Jun 2023

Research|Science

National Recognition for Printing House Square

Printing House Square in Trinity College Dublin was announced as the winner of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland's Award for the Learning Environments category last week. This a national award recognising a broad range of categories in the field of architecture in Ireland.

30 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding

No Mow May gives life to rare orchid

A rare orchid has appeared on Trinity's campus as an unexpected outcome of its decision to allow wildflowers bloom in the month of May. Trinity stopped mowing several formal lawns across campus for the month of May as part of the international No Mow May initiative. This allowed wildflowers like clovers and daisies to bloom and provided food for pollinating insects, which are currently in decline.

3 Jul 2023

Environment|Sustainability

A new bacterial blueprint to aid in the war on antibiotic resistance

A team of scientists from around the globe, including those from Trinity, has gained high-res structural insights into a key bacterial enzyme, which may help chemists design new drugs to inhibit it and thus suppress disease-causing bacteria.

1 Jul 2023

Health|Research|Science

The tide of medicinal plants and natural products is rising: conference hears

Trinity hosts the 71st GA2023 conference to explore the opportunities of unlocking nature’s pharmacy

3 Jul 2023

Environment|Health|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Scientists discover how anti-viral cytokines can blunt the immune response to tuberculosis

A new study, published in the journal Cellular Immunology, is closing the research gap on the actions of an important protein of the immune system; type 1 interferon, whose actions remain poorly understood.

3 Jul 2023

Health|Research

The weeds shall inherit the Earth

Human land use is now comparable to climate in driving global patterns of plant occurrence, with new research showing that species are not affected equally; slow-growing plants like trees are less able to cope with more intensive human land use than disturbance-tolerant species like grasses.

4 Jul 2023

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Fresh insights into how glucose drives tuberculosis vaccine responses offer hope for improved efficacy

BCG is a live bacterial vaccine, of limited effectiveness for tuberculosis, but it's the only one we've got. However, scientists in the TB Immunology group at Trinity College Dublin and St. James's Hospital have provided fresh insights into the behaviour of a crucial cell in vaccine mechanisms, which may offer a fresh target for scientists seeking to improve vaccine efficacy.

6 Jul 2023

Health|Research|Science

Green Tech Skillnet provides 30% discount on selected Trinity green courses

Trinity is pleased to announce that Green Tech Skillnet, an organisation dedicated to fostering skills and expertise in the field of green technology, will provide a 30% discount for learners pursuing several of Trinity's green diplomas and micro-credential courses.

7 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Students|Sustainability

Understanding the challenges of participation in nursing home research: New Trinity study

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have this week launched a survey to find out why gathering this data for nursing home research is proving difficult.

11 Jul 2023

Community|Health|Research

Ethiopia wants to join the BRICS group of nations: here are the pros and cons

Padraig Carmody, Professor in Geography at Trinity, is an expert in the political economy of globalisation in Africa. In this piece he takes a look at the desire of Ethiopia to join the BRICS grouping and assesses the potential benefits and risks.

12 Jul 2023

Society

Prof Christine Casey wins prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

Professor Casey, School of Histories and Humanities, has won a European Research Council Advanced grant valued at €2.5 million to explore collective achievement in classical architecture of Ireland & Britain.

13 Jul 2023

Arts|Awards and Funding|Culture|Research

Trinity to lead Creative Ireland climate action project

A cross-border project led by Trinity College Dublin has been awarded €250,000 by Creative Ireland to illustrate the urgency of climate challenge and rising sea levels.

14 Jul 2023

Dr Tamara Boto wins Wellcome Career Development Award 2023

Assistant Professor in Physiology, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Dr Tamara Boto studies how features of importance, or salience, are processed in the brain, and how they affect memories, in health and disease.

19 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Hubs offering electric cars, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes to test potential of shared e-mobility to decarbonise transport

Researchers from Trinity, together with collaborators from the Atlantic Technological University (ATU), ESB and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, will lead a €1.35 million shared electric mobility project.

19 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research

Trinity team installs world's first user adjustable pole-piece electron microscope lens at Sandia National Laboratories

A team of researchers from the Ultramicroscopy Research Group at Trinity has recently completed the installation of a world-first UAP transmission electron microscope lens.

19 Jul 2023

Innovation|Research|Science

Trinity student wins Inclusivity Partnership Award

This week, Children’s Books Ireland and the School of English announced the recipient of the 2023 Inclusivity Partnership Award. The partnership enables researchers to work closely with experts in the area of children’s books to investigate key issues in contemporary publishing for young readers. The recipient, Linde Vergeylen, is a student from the M.Phil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity. Under the supervision of Dr Pádraic Whyte, she will lead an investigation into the representation of disabilities in Young Adult verse novels.

20 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Culture|Students

Shark shock – scientists discover filter-feeding basking sharks are warm-bodied like great whites

Approximately 99.9% of fish and shark species are “cold-blooded”, meaning their body tissues generally match the temperature of the water they swim in – but researchers have just discovered the mighty basking shark is a one-in-a-thousand exception.

20 Jul 2023

Environment|Research|Science

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer elected Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Ohlmeyer, from Trinity’s School of Histories and Humanities, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, which today welcomed a new group of leading international humanities and social sciences researchers to its Fellowship for 2023.

21 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Culture