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Bound to please: Exhibition of fore-edge paintings and bindings go on display in Long Room

Intricate scenes painted on book edges depicting landscapes, flowers and buildings are the subject of a new exhibition in the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

25 Sep 2023

Nominate an Honorary Degree Recipient

Trinity College Dublin invites its students, staff, alumni and members of the public to make nominations for honorary degree recipients.

25 Sep 2023

Community

Scientists unearth potential new target for treating debilitating skin disease

A team, led by scientists from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), has unearthed the possible target for treating the debilitating skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which is a painful, chronic, inflammatory skin condition that can last decades.

26 Sep 2023

Health|Research|Science

High-end geospatial technology company ai mapit spins out of Trinity

ai mapit, a spinout company from the SFI ADAPT Centre at Trinity, has launched into the global geographic information systems (GIS) market with a revolutionary geotagging solution that promises to enhance productivity, reduce operational costs and carbon footprint by minimising the number of site visits.

26 Sep 2023

Business|Environment|Innovation|Research

Translating Sebastian Barry – author and translators celebrate European Day of Languages

Bestselling Irish author Sebastian Barry was joined this week by three of his translators at an event in Trinity College Dublin to mark European Day of Languages [Tues, Sept 26th].

27 Sep 2023

Arts|Culture|Research

Trinity's trees - featuring the Southern Magnolia

This month we are bringing you Magnolia grandiflora, commonly known as the Southern Magnolia. It is located just behind the 1937 Reading Room in the Provost’s Garden. This is a mature specimen of M. grandiflora and measures 16 m in height with a girth of 1.2 m, but they can grow to 35 m in height.

28 Sep 2023

Environment|Sustainability

Provost expresses significant concern regarding forthcoming budget

College community urged to contact public representatives.

28 Sep 2023

Does AI have a right to free speech?

Granting AI free speech rights would both support and undermine our freedom of thought, writes Dr Simon McCarthy-Jones, Psychiatry, in this piece originally published in The Conversation.

28 Sep 2023

Innovation|Research|Science

Academy of the Near Future wins Silver at Seoul Smart City prize

Academy of the Near Future (ANF) has been awarded silver in the ‘Human-Centricity’ category at the Seoul Smart City Prize in South Korea. ANF is a collaborative initiative between Dublin City Council and CONNECT, the SFI Research Centre for Future Networks at Trinity.

28 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Sustainability

Cuireann an Propast imní shuntasach in iúl faoin mbuiséad atá le teacht go luath

Agus í ag rá go raibh an earnáil “tearcmhaoinithe go mór” de réir chaighdeáin idirnáisiúnta, leag an Propast béim ar an éifeacht ollmhór atá ag an staid reatha airgeadais ar mhic léinn agus ar an bhfoireann.

29 Sep 2023

Community|Society

Bí i d’abhatár, bain triail as bheith i do scríobhaí meánaoiseach agus cláraigh do dhianchampa luibheolaíochta ag Féile START

Is cuid d’Oíche Thaighdeoirí na hEorpa í Féile START (Start Talking About Research Today), imeacht poiblí ar fud na hEorpa, ina dtaispeántar an éagsúlacht taighde agus an tionchar a bhíonn aige ar shaol laethúil saoránach ar bhealaí spraíúla spreagúla. I mbliana beidh imeachtaí á reáchtáil in 26 tír ar fud na hEorpa.

29 Sep 2023

Arts|Innovation|Research|Science|Society

Printing House Square official opening

We are looking forward to welcoming our students and staff to the official opening of Printing House Square on Monday October 9th from 3-5pm.

29 Sep 2023

Community|Health

Drunk? Adventures in 16th-Century Brewing – food historian debunks myth that pre-industrial beer was weaker

A new documentary following food historian Dr Susan Flavin as she recreated a beer last brewed in Dublin Castle 450 years ago was premiered at the closing evening of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

30 Sep 2023

Arts|Research|Science

Open House Dublin 2023

Trinity College Dublin is host to several events during this year’s Open House Dublin Festival of Architecture.

2 Oct 2023

Community|Culture

Five Fellows to develop Trinity’s programme of Education for Sustainable Development

Trinity has announced a new strategic initiative to embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) throughout the curriculum. Five members of academic staff from across all three faculties have been seconded to work with Trinity’s Centre for Academic Practice (Trinity Teaching & Learning) and Trinity Sustainability.

2 Oct 2023

Environment|Research|Sustainability

TILDA/MISA event explores why education determines when we die?

Guest speakers examined how the college educated have become healthier and wealthier, while adults without a degree are suffering from deaths of despair including suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism in the United States.

23 Aug 2023

Health|Research|Society

Trinity students to represent Ireland at Enactus World Cup

Students from Trinity College Dublin will soon be jetting off to Utrecht to represent Ireland at the Enactus World Cup

3 Oct 2023

Business|Environment|Students

Trinity’s Prof Jo-Hanna Ivers secures funding from National Open Research Forum

The Trinity-hosted project, entitled ENGAGED: Co-Creating Ireland’s Public Engagement and Open Research Road Map, will be led by Jo-Hanna Ivers, Associate Professor in Addictions & Associate Dean of Civic Engagement & Social Innovation at Trinity College Dublin.

4 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding

Trinity researchers receive €1.3 m from HRB for postdoctoral research fellowships

Dr Cilian Ó’Maoldomhnaigh and Dr Robert Briggs have been awarded Clinician Scientist Fellowships from the Health Research Board (HRB) as part of a €6.4 million investment to support the career development of outstanding researchers in health and social care.

4 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding|Health

Lived experiences of poverty in Dublin mapped out in walk-and-talk study

Stigma of place is a core feature of extreme poverty in Ireland, according to new research published by the School of Social Work and Social Policy.

6 Oct 2023

Arts|Community|Research|Society