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Celebrating Irish Sign Language Day – Trinity shines a blue light on the subject
14th December 2017 is a cherished date for the Irish Deaf community because it marks the successful passing of the Irish Sign Language (ISL) Bill in the Houses of Oireachtas. The Bill was brought forward by Senator Mark Daly and is one of just 6 Bills that began life as a Private Members Bill to have entered into law in the past 80 years.
13 Dec 2021
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Trinity testbed connects with Manhattan in transatlantic telecoms research partnership
The OpenIreland telecoms testbed at the CONNECT Centre in Trinity and COSMOS in New York City are to connect physically as part of a new transatlantic research partnership.
22 Mar 2021
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Diane Louie wins 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
Diane Louie has been announced as the winner of the 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her first book of poems Fractal Shores.
21 Apr 2021
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Trinity College Dublin campus to reopen Wednesday 8th December
Trinity's campus will open as normal tomorrow, Wednesday 8th December, following today’s closure due to the storm warning. Tuesday's scheduled commencement ceremonies will now take place tomorrow (Wednesday) at the same time and in the same place as originally planned.
7 Dec 2021
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Trinity scores top for Employer Reputation in latest QS global rankings for Graduate Employability
Trinity is ranked first in Ireland for employer reputation and alumni outcomes and is among the top 50 in the world for graduate employment rate.
23 Sep 2021
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Trinity receives funding to help students with disabilities
Trinity Disability Service is delighted to announce that it has been successful in a funding application to develop strategic initiatives to provide additional supports to Trinity's students with disabilities and to make Trinity a more inclusive and accessible University.
22 Jan 2021
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National Brain Awareness Week: Arresting brain tumour related seizure activity
Professor Mark Cunningham's research aims to develop better ways to arrest seizure activity in patients with tumour related seizures which are more difficult to control with conventional anti-seizure drugs.
16 Mar 2021
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Secondary students win Trinity College Dublin E3 Global Challenges Award
The winners, from Synge Street CBS in Dublin focused on developing useful models to predict COVID-19 infection rates over time.
12 Jan 2021
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New approach to molecular drug design yields highly promising bladder cancer drug candidate
The exciting research involved a collaborative group of scientists from Trinity College Dublin, Charles University and Motol Hospital (Prague), Lund University, and startup company Hamlet Pharma.
28 Jun 2021
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Researchers find inappropriate and unnecessary vitamin D testing in Dublin
Researchers found that one in four patients have their vitamin D frequently checked by their GP, and yet some remain deficient after several tests. Young adults and males were most likely to have low vitamin D but were retested the least.
4 Aug 2021
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Trinity and IBM Research Europe – Dublin announce new fellowship programme
The programme will provide exceptional PhD candidates with the unique opportunity to work with scientists tackling real-world problems, while simultaneously gaining industry experience.
13 Dec 2021
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Scientists home in on recipe for entirely renewable energy
The Trinity team behind the work has taken a major leap forward in searching for the “holy grail” of green catalysts that would allow us to produce clean energy from water. The work could one day make a huge contribution to reducing humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions.
7 Jul 2021
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New research unearths importance of “subterranean estuaries” to sustainable fishing and aquaculture industry
The newly published research shows these hidden features are very important in the ecology of coastal systems and in filtering pollutants.
23 Jun 2021
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Trinity to lead €4 million H2020 ‘SEURO’ Project in digital health technology
The project will advance research into the use of digital health technologies for chronic disease self-management and builds on a previously awarded H2020 project.
17 Feb 2021
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We solved the mystery of why some fish are warm-blooded
Lucy Harding, PhD Candidate in Trinity's School of Natural Sciences, explains in this piece for The Conversation how her research into fish physiology is solving old riddles in the natural world.
5 Jul 2021
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Perceived fear of losing children major barrier to women accessing addiction treatment
The newly launched report from the School of Medicine finds there is an urgent need for the expansion of gender-sensitive drug and alcohol treatment approaches that support the needs of women.
24 Jun 2021
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Brain Awareness Week 2021: The developing brain’s response to stress
Dr Eva Jimenez-Mateos is bringing her knowledge of seizures in adults to neonatal care in order to understand how the brain responds to our first days of life.
21 Mar 2021
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The Museum Building Trinity College Dublin: then and now
The Museum Building - a look at the changes over the years.
27 Jul 2021
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Cancer-killing cells are diverted into fat and away from tumours in obese cancer patients
Scientists have, however, discovered a key biological pathway that – when targeted with drugs – can reduce the extent to which the cancer-killing cells are erroneously diverted.
9 Aug 2021
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Trinity student wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill judges’ highly commended award
Trinity's student Matthew Thomas wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill judges’ highly commended award for his essay 'Compromised: Lessons learned from the AIDS epidemic’.
27 May 2021
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“That’s not another dogfish…” Researchers film large, prehistoric looking shark off Co. Clare coast
In what is a European first, a team of marine biologists from Trinity, Queen’s University Belfast and Fjordstrong have filmed a giant sixgill shark swimming in Irish coastal waters.
30 Jul 2021
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Immunologists convinced Santa has a great immune system
The immunologists expect Santa to have lots of helper T cells that drive his immune system to make lots of ‘Santibodies’, which bind on to viruses and prevent them from causing infection.
23 Dec 2021
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Challenge-Based Project Awards created to honour Provost Prendergast
These Challenge based awards are made possible through the generous philanthropic support of the Provost’s Council, a network of leading Trinity alumni and supporters who act as advisors to the College.
26 Jul 2021
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Trinity names artists to create first sculptures of women for the Old Library
The sculptures will represent the scientist Rosalind Franklin, the folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder Augusta Gregory, the mathematician Ada Lovelace and the pioneering women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
14 Jul 2021
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Major climate change themed artwork planned near Grand Canal
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Theatre Festival and Brokentalkers have unveiled plans for a major public artwork, ‘Rising’, which will be located near the Grand Canal, Dublin in Autumn 2021 on the subject of climate change and climate action.
31 Mar 2021
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Professor Alan Irvine elected as a Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow
Professor Irvine joins the RSE’s current roll of around 1,600 leading thinkers and practitioners from Scotland and beyond, whose work has a significant impact on the world.
30 Mar 2021
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Tech startup Field of Vision wins LaunchBox 2021
Field of Vision offers a groundbreaking handheld device, which allows visually impaired individuals to feel the action of live sport. Those behind the startup comprised one of 10 student entrepreneur teams, who sought investment from venture capitalists and angel investors at the conclusion of LaunchBox 2021.
30 Aug 2021
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The return of the morning commute will ruin productivity, Trinity research reveals
New research from Wladislaw Rivkin at Trinity Business School, Fabiola Gerpott and Dana Unger demonstrates that commuting reduces productivity at work by draining mental energy, effecting our ability to fully focus on what we’re doing when we finally arrive at work.
28 Apr 2021
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Magnetic material invented by Irish scientists breaks the record for super-fast switching
This discovery demonstrates the potential of the material for a new generation of energy efficient, ultra-fast computers and data storage systems.
11 May 2021
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Trinity ranks 101st in QS World University Rankings 2022
Trinity saw a rise in academic reputation but a countervailing decline in global scores associated with staff-student ratios, where all Irish universities struggle to do well.
8 Jun 2021