Articles
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Rugby World Cup collector coin features Trinity's Campanile
For France, they picked the Eiffel Tower; for England, it was Big Ben; and when it came to picking a landmark building to appear on a collector coin to mark Ireland's participation in the 2023 Rugby World Cup, the French Mint chose Trinity's own Campanile.
13 Oct 2023
Culture
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Mental health of staff working in nursing homes declined further despite COVID-19 pandemic restrictions easing
Follow-on findings from an initial study showed that nursing home staff working after Ireland’s pandemic restrictions had been lifted reported substantially higher levels of post-traumatic stress, moral injury, low mood and suicidal thinking than during the pandemic.
16 Oct 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Learnovate and Amazon launch accelerator programme for EdTech firms
The EdTech Accelerator Programme is a collaboration between Learnovate, a leading global future of work and learning research hub in Trinity College Dublin, and AWS.
16 Oct 2023
Awards and Funding|Innovation
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Dr Fáinche Ryan elected Vice President of European Society of Catholic Theology
Dr Ryan will serve as Vice President for two years and then as President for a further two years.
17 Oct 2023
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People with ID often diagnosed late when cancer is well advanced
Many people with intellectual disability are diagnosed with cancer when it has already spread (metastasized) and the odds of survival are lower, writes Martin McMahon for The Conversation
18 Oct 2023
Health|Research
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Trees of the month – Santry Sports Grounds
We are doing something slightly different in honour of Climate and Biodiversity Action week by featuring not just one tree, but an entire woodland area filled with native and naturalised trees at Trinity’s Santry Sports Grounds. Here you will find Oak, Horse Chesnut and Pine trees along with more exotic species such as Sweet Chesnut, Ginkgo and Redwoods.
18 Oct 2023
Environment|Sustainability
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New project chases net-zero renewable energy systems for the Atlantic Area
Researchers from Trinity are leading a €3.2 million project (HY4RES) that will see them develop hybrid renewable energy systems for the green transition of the Atlantic area of Europe.
19 Oct 2023
Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Call out for community climate action projects to join forces with Trinity researchers
Interested in taking action on the climate crisis but don’t know how to make it happen? Researchers from Trinity College Dublin are looking to collaborate with communities on a locally-led 18-month project focusing on climate action.
19 Oct 2023
Community|Society|Students|Sustainability
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Trinity honours ten high-achieving graduates at 2023 Alumni Awards
The acclaimed author Anne Enright joined nine other high achievers from a wide variety of fields who were celebrated at the 2023 Trinity College Dublin Alumni Awards.
20 Oct 2023
Awards and Funding|Community|Society
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Taoiseach speaks at Hist debate
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar gave a keynote speech on the importance of student debate.
20 Oct 2023
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The Hist wins Guinness World Record for longest debate marathon
The student debate went on for 27 hours, 58 minutes, with eight speakers addressing 26 motions run back to back, all under careful supervision of Guinness World Records.
23 Oct 2023
Students
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ET phone Dublin? Astrophysicists scan the Galaxy for signs of life
The astrophysicists, from Trinity and the Breakthrough Listen team and Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden, are scanning the Universe for “technosignatures” emanating from distant planets that would provide support for the existence of intelligent, alien life.
24 Oct 2023
Research|Science
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Michael Magee awarded 2023 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
The Rooney Prize, administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Creative Writing, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 years of age.
24 Oct 2023
Arts|Awards and Funding|Culture
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Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels delivers masterclass to Trinity computer science students
Amazon.com Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Dr Werner Vogels delivered a Masterclass entitled ‘From Research to Production: Applying Distributed Computing Concepts to the Real World’ to students on the MSc programme in Computer Science on his recent visit to Trinity.
26 Oct 2023
Innovation|Research|Students
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Learning without limits – Trinity celebrates 20 years of inclusive education
Minister Simon Harris joined students, past and present, at the ‘Learning Without Limits’ conference. Together they celebrated the achievements of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities, which has hit a 20-year milestone of inclusive education.
27 Oct 2023
Community|Society|Students
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Foghlaim gan teorainneacha – ceiliúradh ag Coláiste na Tríonóide ar 20 bliain den oideachas ionchuimsitheach
Tagann an tAire Simon Harris le chéile le mic léinn na linne seo agus na mblianta a caitheadh chun ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar a bhfuil bainte amach ag Lárionad Choláiste na Tríonóide do Dhaoine faoi Mhíchumas Intleachta
27 Oct 2023
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It’s time for Irish legislation to keep vulnerable adults safe
The inaugural International Adult Safeguarding Conference highlighted the need to create protective and intervention systems across sectors and to introduce adult safeguarding legislation.
27 Oct 2023
Health|Research|Society
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Late not great – imperfect timekeeping places significant limit on quantum computers
New research from a consortium of quantum physicists, led by Trinity College Dublin’s Dr Mark Mitchison, shows that imperfect timekeeping places a fundamental limit to quantum computers and their applications.
31 Oct 2023
Research|Science
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Fabulous Histories: Animals in Literature
Professor Aileen Douglas will deliver her Inaugural Lecture ‘Fabulous Histories: Animals in Literature’ on Tuesday 7th November.
1 Nov 2023
Arts
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Trinity joins pilot international sustainability education programme
The cohort of institutions will work closely with their students throughout the year to engage with the framework of good practice, effecting changes to teaching and learning at the top-down, middle-out and bottom-up levels.
2 Nov 2023
Culture|Environment|Students|Sustainability