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School closures, exam uncertainty hurt student wellbeing, finds Trinity survey
A new survey of second-level students in schools in areas of social disadvantage shows school closures as a result of Covid-19 negatively impacted on their mental health.
28 Aug 2020
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Who has been infected with COVID-19 and why?
Dr Nollaig Bourke's research was awarded funding through the Rapid Response Call for Covid-19 from the Health Research Board and the Irish Research Council.
8 Jun 2020
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Why children must be the focus as lockdown eases
Social Work and Social Policy Professor Robbie Gilligan writes on the importance of placing children centre-stage as we exit lockdown. This opinion piece was first published by the Business Post.
14 May 2020
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Professor Aljosa Smolic wins prestigious innovator award
The award recognises pioneers of transformative technologies and showcases innovations that have had great impact on human experiences or are anticipated to do so in the near future.
17 Jul 2020
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Trinity researchers make asthma breakthrough
The discovery may eventually lead to improved therapeutic options for people living with asthma. The researchers behind the work, led by Professor Luke O'Neill, have uncovered a critical role for a protein (Caspase-11), which had previously never been implicated in the disease.
26 Feb 2020
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A new art of business leadership: Lessons from the COVID era
In an article first published in the California Management Review, Tanusree Jain, Louis Brennan, and Harry J. Van Buren III argue that leaders in the COVID-19 era should take this unique opportunity to think far outside the box.
26 Aug 2020
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Two Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC awards
Two Trinity researchers – Dr Emma Tomlinson and Dr Fiona Smyth - have received prestigious awards from the European Research Council (ERC) in the latest round of results announced.
17 Mar 2022
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Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC awards
Assistant Professor Claire Gillan and Dr Alessandro Lunghi have been awarded European Research Council Starting Grant Awards worth €3 million in the latest round of results, while Al Maktoum Associate Professor, Mohamed Ahmed, recently began his project here, which was retained on the funding list from a previous round.
3 Sep 2020
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Multidisciplinary team to lead €10.4 million project, 4-OCEANS
The project will assess the importance of marine life for human societies during the last two millennia, and consider how selected major socio-economic, cultural, and environmental forces variously constrained and enabled marine exploitation.
5 Nov 2020
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Trinity Long Room Hub celebrates 10 years as flagship research institute
The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute yesterday celebrated its 10th anniversary by highlighting the contribution of the Arts and Humanities to public debates in Ireland and internationally over the past ten years.
20 Feb 2020
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Confinement: the fear of death, the price of life and the risk of living
A fascinating opinion-editorial by Laurent Muzellec, professor in marketing, Trinity Business School, which was first published in the Irish Independent.
30 Apr 2020
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Trinity welcomes further investment in COVID-19 Research Project
Trinity College Dublin has welcomed the Government’s €4.8M investment into a collaborative partnership at the university researching the immune response to COVID-19.
3 Jul 2020
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Máirtín Ó Cadhain 2020 | Comhdháil lae ar líne
Tá leathchéad bliain imithe ó cuireadh an mórscríbhneoir Máirtín Ó Cadhain i gcré na cille.
20 Nov 2020
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Trinity wins Best Green Campus Award 2020
Trinity College Dublin won the Best Green Campus Award at The Education Awards 2020 on February 20 for its unsurpassed strong commitment to make a positive environmental impact and contribute to a sustainable future.
21 Feb 2020
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Experts release videos to help parents teach young children at home
The videos, which were released on UNESCO World and Copyright Book Day, aim to support literacy at home in a simple way and are targeted at children in early primary school and their parents.
24 Apr 2020
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Calls for new Taoiseach to make the 1926 census available online
As a panel discussion at Trinity College Dublin explored the significance of the Four Courts fire of 1922, and the destruction of the Public Records Office resulting in the loss of over 700 years of Ireland’s historical and genealogical records, the Taoiseach was called on to open the 1926 census and make them available online.
29 Jan 2020
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Trinity’s Grand Canal Innovation District takes step forward with plans for an Innovation Hub
Trinity College Dublin has today announced the first phase of the planned €1 billion Grand Canal Innovation District (GCID) - its proposed Innovation Hub.
20 Nov 2020
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Trinity moves to ease pressure on students in assessments
Trinity College Dublin’s Academic Council has today approved a series of measures to alleviate the stresses facing students as they approach their Semester 2 assessments.
8 Apr 2020
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Has business efficiency made Covid crisis worse?
Novel argument in praise of "redundancy" from Trinity Business School's Tanusree Jain and colleagues Adrian Zicari, Concepcion Galdon and Mario Aquino Alves. Published first in the Business Post.
28 May 2020
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The explosive secret hidden beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes
July 2020 An international team of volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago has found that volcanoes which reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse magmas in their underground plumbing systems – including some with the potential to generate explosive activity. Extensive media coverage included: Irish Times Daily Mail National Tribune […]
28 Jul 2020
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Four Trinity researchers secure SFI Public Service Fellowships
The fellowships will foster innovation within the Public Sector by supporting the development and implementation of data-driven and evidence-based approaches.
22 Oct 2020
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2020 in books: Trinity reads of the year
Trinity alumni and academics have been busy producing books this year on all kinds of topics - so for a selected guide to Trinity-linked Christmas books from poetry through prose to science, read on …
30 Dec 2020
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Trinity research helping policy makers make safer decisions on reopening our communities
Over the last number of weeks, Ireland has taken public health measures such as closing schools and businesses and encouraging social and physical distancing to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Planning for easing of such restrictions is difficult because we don’t know how many people in the community have been infected with the […]
14 May 2020
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Indian citizenship has now been reduced to ‘us’ versus ‘them’
A thought-provoking piece written by Trinity professors, Rahul Sambaraju and Suryapratim Roy, and published by The Conversation, which considers two controversial changes to citizenship laws in India.
2 Mar 2020
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Trinity Secondhand Booksale: 18 – 20 February
The event, which features thousands of novels, journals, pamphlets, guides and reference books, is the largest charity booksale in Ireland.
17 Feb 2020
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First university zero waste festival a success at Trinity
Over 3,000 people attended the first zero waste festival to take place in a university in Ireland
31 Jan 2020
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3Set delivers Ireland’s first student mental health and suicide prevention framework
3Set is a collaborative project led by Trinity and supported by UCD and AIT. The launch of the national framework coincides with World Mental Health Day.
10 Oct 2020
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Like Covid 19, child domestic abuse respects no boundaries
This opinion piece from Dr Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor and Head of School and Dr Ruth Elliffe, Teaching Fellow, School of Social Work & Social Policy, was published in the Irish Examiner
2 Jun 2020
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Global climate change will affect fish sizes and ocean food webs
This research has obvious implications for fisheries and their management, but the crucial message is that warming seas may have significant, unanticipated impacts on entire food webs.
7 Apr 2020
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COVID-19 exposes major flaw in global supply chains
In this article from Openaccessgovernment.org, Dr Tanusree Jain and Dr Louis Brennan, Trinity Business School, propose that we must fix vulnerabilities of global supply chains exposed by COVID-19
19 Jun 2020