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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas greetings - Trinity holiday closure arrangements

For full details about Trinity's opening and closing arrangements over the holiday period

21 Dec 2022

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

The 2,700-year-old rock carvings from when Nineveh was the most dazzling city in the world

Recently uncovered Assyrian reliefs stem from the ancient city of Nineveh, which became synonymous with Assyrian power, explains Assyriologist Dr Martin Worthington, in an article published in The Conversation.

22 Dec 2022

Culture|Research

Confronting our demons: understanding Halloween and the vital connections between darkness and light

Halloween celebrates the vital connections between the light and dark interfaces of existence explains Dr Cathriona Russell, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies, in this piece originally published in The Irish Independent.

26 Oct 2022

Culture|Research|Society

Believed to be destroyed 100 years ago, our historical archives are brought back to life with virtual treasury

Peter Crooks and Zoë Reid write about how Ireland's historical archives were brought back to life in a piece originally published in The Irish Independent.

27 Jun 2022

Culture|Innovation|Research

Trinity researchers receive SFI Research Infrastructure awards

The SFI Research Infrastructure Programme facilitates broad usage across Ireland and to encourage partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland.

29 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Voting behaviour and exposure to Russian Twitter campaigns during 2016 US election

Voting behaviour in the 2016 US presidential election was not affected by foreign disinformation campaigns on Twitter according to a new study conducted by an international team of researchers.

9 Jan 2023

Research|Society

In decade of centenaries, we should hold on to the sense of those hopeful early days

From the Skibbereen Eagle to the New York Times, editors around the world made the same comparison – the hand-over of Dublin Castle was the “downfall of a Bastille”, writes Dr Anne Dolan in this piece that was originally published in The Irish Independent.

14 Jan 2022

Culture|Research|Society

Government approves eviction ban

In October the Irish Government announced a moratorium on evictions until April 2023. Dr Sarah Hamill and Dr Rachel Walsh from our School of Law provided expert comment to a number of media outlets.

27 Oct 2022

Winter eviction ‘ban’ does little more than buy the government time

The problem with the rental market is not over-regulation but bad regulation, poorly enforced, explains Dr Sarah Hamill, School of Law, in this comment piece originally published in The Sunday Business Post.

24 Oct 2022

Research|Society

What's behind the rise in caesarean births for first-time mums in Ireland?

A new study from the School of Nursing and Midwifery has found that factors influencing a clinician’s decision to perform a caesarean-section on a first-time mother, are complex and multifactorial.

11 Jan 2023

Health|Research