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New badger research has implications for managing bovine TB
Badgers living with helminth parasite infections are more likely to have tuberculosis (TB), according to new research, which may influence policymakers trying to manage TB infection within cattle and wildlife populations
29 Nov 2022
Environment|Research|Science
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New early detection programme offers new insights for frailty detection
A newly-launched research programme - FRAILMatics - is discovering new objective signals of frailty that could translate into the next generation of transdisciplinary diagnostics for ageing adults.
29 Nov 2022
Health|Innovation|Research|Science
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Three Trinity Schools achieve Athena SWAN Bronze Awards
Trinity College Dublin's School of English, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies and School of Medicine have recently been conferred with Athena SWAN Bronze awards at an award ceremony in Atlantic Technological University in Mayo.
30 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding
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Using technology to transform how we identify neurodegenerative disease
In a new study published in Translational Psychiatry, researchers at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) and the School of Psychology at Trinity College describe how technology can help detect early signs of cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
30 Nov 2022
Health|Research|Science
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Trinity project among 8 announced in Government’s Shared Island initiative
A project focusing on cultural engagement led by Dr Steven Hadley, School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin, has been named today in the announcement of the Shared Island strand of the Irish Research Council’s New Foundations programme.
1 Dec 2022
Awards and Funding
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New handbook to support linguistic inclusion of migrants
A new publication aimed at supporting organisations and individuals involved in teaching languages with refugees and asylum-seekers has been published by a team at Trinity College Dublin.
1 Dec 2022
Community|Culture|Research|Society
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Scientists homing in on why COVID-19 affects people so differently
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, St. James’s Hospital Dublin and Trinity are getting closer to understanding what makes some people so vulnerable to COVID-19-induced illness, which in turn may guide the development of new therapeutic strategies.
1 Dec 2022
Health|Research|Science
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Introducing Trinity tree of the month - the London Plane
In a new venture for Trinity, we are introducing our community to the most remarkable trees on campus, month by month. For December we are featuring a London Plane (Platanus x hispanica) located in the Provost’s courtyard on the corner of Grafton and Nassau Street.
2 Dec 2022
Community|Sustainability
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Four exceptional individuals receive honorary degrees at Trinity
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre CEO Noeline Blackwell, artist Dorothy Cross, theologian David Ford and the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian newspaper Alan Rusbridger were conferred today with honorary degrees of the University of Dublin at Trinity College Dublin.
2 Dec 2022
Awards and Funding|Culture|Society|Students
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Trinity spinouts celebrate Knowledge Transfer Ireland Awards success
Trinity spinouts SilverCloud Health and ProVerum Medical secured the Commercialisation Impact and People’s Choice awards respectively when the annual Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards ceremony took place this week.
2 Dec 2022
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research
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Genetic causes of bone tumours discovered in 1,000-year-old Irish skeletons
Two men buried long ago in a medieval graveyard in Co. Donegal had a genetic condition called Multiple Osteochondromas, which causes benign bone tumours. One of the disease mutations is a new discovery, so this is the first time such information has been unlocked from ancient genomic data.
5 Dec 2022
Health|Research|Science
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Five students receive first Three Ireland Connect to STEM scholarships for women
Administered by the Faculty of STEM and Trinity Access and worth €20,000 each over a four-year undergraduate degree programme, the scholarship scheme to benefit 25 students in total aims to attract women from Ireland to study STEM subjects at Trinity.
6 Dec 2022
Awards and Funding|Community|Innovation|Students
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Trinity researchers and staff honoured in IRC 'Research Ally' awards
Nine Trinity researchers and members of staff were honoured in the ‘Research Ally’ category at this year’s Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year awards.
6 Dec 2022
Awards and Funding|Research
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Ancient amphibians had their bones cooked
Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery as to why ancient tetrapods – amphibian-like creatures that lived over 300 million years ago – preserved in one of Ireland’s most important fossil sites seemingly had their bones cooked after they died.
7 Dec 2022
Environment|Research|Science
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Trinity joins worldwide Nature Positive Universities Alliance committed to reversing biodiversity decline
Through the Alliance, 111 Universities, including Trinity, have taken an official pledge and begun assessing their environmental impact, in order to make tailored actions to improve their ecological footprint on our planet.
8 Dec 2022
Environment|Research|Society
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Professor Luke O’Neill appointed to ERC Scientific Council
Composed of 22 distinguished researchers representing the European scientific community, the Council is the independent governing body of the European Research Council (ERC). Its main role is setting the ERC strategy and selecting the peer review evaluators.
8 Dec 2022
Research|Science
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Establishing the National Irish COVID-19 Biobank (NICB) as an important piece of biobanking infrastructure
The launch of the operational phase of the National Irish Covid-19 Biobank (NICB) marks an important advance in national research structures that ensures Ireland retains a competitive research presence in international pandemic response and is part of future preparedness.
12 Dec 2022
Health|Research
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Voices of young children ‘starkly absent’ from Ireland’s family law system
The new report is the first study to present qualitative evidence on how contact arrangements for children of separated and divorced parents are currently being managed in Irish family law cases.
13 Dec 2022
Research|Society
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Why new short-term letting laws won’t increase long-term rental supply
Thousands of former short-term lettings may end up being left empty or used as corporate lets, explains Dr Sarah Hamill, School of Law, in an analysis piece for The Irish Times.
15 Dec 2022
Research|Society
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Immune surprise: unexpected function for recently evolved alarm molecule in driving inflammation
Scientists from Trinity have made an important breakthrough in understanding how inflammation is regulated. They have just discovered that a key immune alarm protein previously believed to calm down the immune response actually does the opposite.
16 Dec 2022
Health|Research|Science
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Iran: dissent by public figures has amplified the protest across the country – and the world
Protesters in Iran have challenged limits on freedom of expression and civil liberties, explains Dr Roja Fazaeli, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, in this piece for The Conversation.
19 Dec 2022
Culture|Research|Society
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Cuala Press Christmas cards visualised the ideals of the Irish Revivalist movement
A Gaelicised Virgin Mary ironing beside a red-headed baby Jesus and a bedraggled Father Time on Dublin’s quays are among some of the striking images featured in Christmas and New Year greeting cards produced by Cuala Press.
22 Dec 2022
Culture|Research
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The Old Library in 2022: A year of great change
The monumental task of decanting the Library collections - involving a team of more than 75 staff and assistants - began last Spring, with a staggering 3.5 kilometres of books removed.
27 Dec 2022
Culture|Sustainability
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Finding festive treats in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland is an online treasure trove of historical records where we can learn a lot about Christmas of the past, explains Ciarán Wallace, in this article that was first published by RTE History.
26 Dec 2022
Culture|Innovation|Research
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Humans continue to evolve with the emergence of new genes
Modern humans evolutionarily split from our chimpanzee ancestors nearly 7 million years ago, yet we are continuing to evolve – with new analyses conducted by scientists from Trinity highlighting that two new human-specific “microgenes” have arisen from scratch.
20 Dec 2022
Research|Science
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Innovative teaching techniques to increase intake of student nurses
The School of Nursing and Midwifery is rising to the challenge of increasing its student intake under limited capacity with innovative teaching techniques, to replace some hospital clinical internship hours.
21 Dec 2022
Health|Students
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Accessible digital skills education programme for adults with intellectual disability continues to grow
Researchers from Trinity, who are spearheading an accessible digital skills education programme that will support better health and social inclusion outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities, have international plans for 2023 – with a roadshow in the UK an early highlight.
26 Dec 2022
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Society
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Research Highlights 2022
Over the past 12 months Trinity’s researchers have made some incredible contributions to their fields and to society. In this reflective piece, we highlight 12 pieces of work/impacts that made waves and sparked discussion in 2022.
30 Dec 2022
Research
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Christmas greetings - Trinity holiday closure arrangements
For full details about Trinity's opening and closing arrangements over the holiday period
21 Dec 2022
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Eviction ban is likely to survive court challenge
The Covid-19 moratorium sets a precedent and should guide the implementation of the new ban, writes Rachel Walsh, Associate Professor, School of Law, in a piece originally published in The Irish Times.
20 Oct 2022
Research|Society