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Improving academic performance, emotional well-being and social integration for migrant and refugee children

The REFUGE-ED project will ensure that children have access to quality education and a protective learning environment which is key to restoring their emotional security and sense of place.

28 Oct 2021

Research

Repeated link between volcanic eruptions and dynastic collapse in China’s Imperial Era identified

Volcanic eruptions may have triggered abrupt climate changes contributing to the repeated collapse of Chinese dynasties over the past 2,000 years, according to new research published today.

11 Nov 2021

Research

Winners of inaugural Harry Hartford Capstone Awards announced

The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy have announced the four winners of the inaugural Harry Hartford Capstone Awards.

11 Oct 2021

The publishers who made Shakespeare a global phenomenon

Andrew Murphy, 1867 Professor of English at Trinity, with a fascinating insight into the rise of Shakespeare. This article was first published by The Conversation.

15 Nov 2021

Culture|Research

Augmented reality game promotes multilingualism in schools

Trinity and other academic partners in Europe have launched an augmented reality game ‘Babelar’ to show primary school pupils the value of the languages they possess and support teachers in becoming more aware of multilingualism and the value of a multilingual education.

8 Apr 2021

Professor Linda Doyle set to become Trinity’s first female Provost

Professor Linda Doyle is set to become Provost of Trinity College Dublin, the first woman to ever hold this role in the University’s 429-year history. She will be the 45th Provost of the University and take over from the current Provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast, on August 1st this year.

10 Apr 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Research

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

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

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

Research

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

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

Research

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

Research

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

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

“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

Research

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

Research

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

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