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30 tree-planting ceremonies to mark College Awareness Week 2022
The 9th annual College Awareness Week (CAW) launches today, with events running nationwide from the 21st – 27th November. The campaign seeks to show how college can and should be for everyone.
21 Nov 2022
Students|Sustainability
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland team awarded prestigious Ellis Prize
The Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) has awarded the prestigious Ellis Prize to the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Considered the ‘Oscar’ for the recordkeeping sector, the award has been given for only the tenth time in 50 years.
21 Nov 2022
Arts|Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Orla Hardiman named 2022 SFI Researcher of the Year
Trinity researchers won three of nine awards at the 2022 SFI Summit event to celebrate the best of Irish research.
22 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research
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Three Trinity researchers win prestigious European Research Council Starting Grants
Dr Kenneth Silver, Dr Colm Delaney and Dr Elaine Corbett were among just seven researchers in Ireland to receive the coveted awards worth up to €5 million from the ERC.
22 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Business|Research|Science
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The changing social worlds of Ireland's 9-year-olds
A Growing Up In Ireland study looks at how the lives of nine-year-olds have changed over a decade in terms of their relationships with family and friends, their pastimes and their school experiences.
22 Nov 2022
Research|Society
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Trinity Sport Scholars celebrated at Dining Hall Ceremony
Linda Doyle, Provost, Trinity College Dublin said: “It is impressive to see how the students balance their commitment to sport with their commitment to their studies"
22 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Health|Students
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Uniphar & Friends of Cross Present €110,000 Donation to Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute
A joint fundraising initiative between Uniphar PLC and the cancer charity ‘Friends of Cross’ was marked at Trinity College Dublin with the handover of a cheque amounting to €110,000 to the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute.
24 Nov 2022
Health
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Trinity announces changes to historic Charter to enable governance reforms
A Supplemental Charter, which updates the University’s existing charters laying out how the University is governed, was approved by the Trinity Board on 7 October 2022 and was formally recognised by the Government on 15 November 2022. The new Supplemental Charter sets out the composition of Trinity’s Board.
24 Nov 2022
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Trinity trio win Royal Society University Research Fellowships
Three researchers – Drs Lara McManus, Mark Mitchison and Matthew Walters – have won highly competitive Royal Society University Research Fellowships that will help them build their research careers at Trinity.
25 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Research
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Trinity College Dublin Launches Legacies Review Working Group
Submissions have been invited from the public on the name of the Berkeley Library and future of Inishbofin human remains stored in Trinity.
25 Nov 2022
Community|Students
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School of Medicine celebrates six HRB Knowledge Transfer Awards
The School scooped six awards across a range of disciplines in the latest round of funding from the Health Research Board (HRB).
24 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Health|Research
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Authentic voice of Oliver Cromwell revealed in new publication
The collected letters, writings, and speeches of Oliver Cromwell will allow us to move beyond the caricature of one of the most controversial figures in Irish, Scottish and English history, according Prof Micheál Ó Siochrú.
28 Nov 2022
Culture|Research
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Autumn statement 2022: experts react
Assistant Professor of Finance at Trinity, Supriya Kapoor, contributes to an insightful look at what the latest key developments in UK politics mean in this piece first published by The Conversation.
17 Nov 2022
Business|Society
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Seoladh Leabhair: ‘The Letters, Writing and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell’
Ar an 28 Samhain 2022, beidh plé comhchéime ar siúl i Mol an tSeomra Fhada, Coláiste na Tríonóide chun seoladh il-imleabhair nua 'The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell' a aithint.
28 Nov 2022
Culture|Research
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Why silly distractions at work can actually be good for you
Positive interventions that distract us from difficult tasks help you deal with unloved tasks and negative emails reduce, according to new research.
28 Nov 2022
Business|Research
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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