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Science Gallery Garden launches at Ars Electronica global festival
Science Gallery’s international network partners with Ars Electronica to explore trust, technology, global challenges, arts innovation and new forms of digital storytelling at their 2020 festival, In Kepler’s Gardens.
8 Sep 2020
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Introducing Palaeontology – new book underlines importance of the fossil record for informing today’s conservation decisions
The book, by Patrick Wyse Jackson, from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, provides a timely reminder of how the fossil record can inform critical conservation decisions of the future.
1 Dec 2020
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Numeracy in the now: videos to help teach primary maths at home
A new series of easy and accessible videos focused on numeracy for young children has been released online by researchers from Trinity.
21 May 2020
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Trinity first in Europe for producing entrepreneurs for sixth successive year
Since 2006, Trinity alumni produced 277 entrepreneurs, formed 254 venture-backed companies, and raised capital of approximately US 4.8 billion.
12 Oct 2020
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Trinity Business School, daa win global award for executive education
A bespoke and customised innovation leadership programme developed by Trinity Business School in conjunction with daa has won the Silver award in the Global 2020 EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards. The EFMD Awards recognise excellence in the executive education space, in which programmes are designed and customised for organisations to facilitate transformation of both people and […]
21 May 2020
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Celebration of Language and Culture in the Heart of the City – Éigse na Tríonóide 2020 begins today
The annual festival, organised by the Students’ Union, student society An Cumann Gaelach and the university’s Irish Language Office, celebrates Irish language and culture.
10 Feb 2020
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Sustainability-minded ReFunk wins Provost Innovation Challenge
The team is building a platform that allows users to list unwanted belongings and materials, which another user can then collect and upcycle.
26 Nov 2020
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Trinity team launches SHARE IT – a sustainability impact assessment toolkit for food sharing initiatives across the globe
SHARE IT will help food sharing initiatives around the world document and communicate the impact of their activities on the sustainability of food systems.
27 Jan 2020
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Trinity researchers discover how the brain ‘re-wires’ after disease
Trinity researchers are studying how the brain re-wires itself in neurological disease. The team is building treatments for today’s more common global conditions like Motor Neurone Disease (MND/ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy and their findings could impact rehabilitation for patients, the discovery of effective drugs and quantifying the potential efficacy of new therapies. The paper […]
17 Nov 2020
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Genes from scratch – far more common and important than we thought
The majority of unique genes in the species the scientists looked at do not result from simple divergence from genes existing in others. This is surprising -- as is the discovery that genes evolving from scratch can have the potential to confer significant advantages to species adapting to their environments.
17 Feb 2020
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Researchers to design new VR systems for healthcare, entertainment, and e-education
The project, SpheryStream, will ehance the visual sensation of future media systems and have uses in a variety of sectors, from healthcare to education.
25 Sep 2020
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Life before COVID: Health and habits of Ireland’s older people before crisis hit
TILDA researchers have released a comprehensive report detailing the health, social and economic circumstances of older adults in Ireland pre- COVID-19.
17 Dec 2020
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Let’s START talking about research! Trinity to host European Researchers’ Night
The annual Europe-wide event that showcases research and aims to bring researchers and the public closer together takes place on November 27th 2020.
18 Nov 2020
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Research highlights increased loneliness in lock-down for the over-70s
The joint report from TILDA and ALONE highlights the effects of COVID-19 measures on our older population.
14 Jul 2020
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‘Resetting’ immune cells improves traumatic brain injury recovery in preclinical trials
This research suggests that the impact of traumatic injury on brain degeneration may be modifiable a relatively long time after the injury was sustained.
25 Feb 2020
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Greek President receives Honorary Degree
Trinity recognised the rich academic and cultural links between Ireland and Greece today by awarding an honorary degree to the Greek President H.E. Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
17 Jan 2020
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Trinity researchers involved in new €5 million climate change project, Terrain-AI
The project, co-funded by Microsoft Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland, will see the collaborative group share their insights and models with other countries to help reduce global carbon outputs.
15 Dec 2020
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The shift to a more sustainable food system is inevitable – here’s how to make it happen
A new report from SAPEA, co-authored by Professor Anna Davies from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, lays out the social science evidence on how a transition can happen in an inclusive, just and timely way.
9 Apr 2020
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Disentangling the psychological, behavioural, media and governmental responses to COVID-19 via a cross-border analysis
The research project is one of six Trinity projects awarded funding through the recent HRB/IRC 'Covid-19 Rapid Response Call'
30 Apr 2020
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Mass action needed to change US
Daniel Geary, Mark Pigott associate professor in American history, writing in the Irish Times that steps required to prevent police murdering of African Americans have been known for 50 years.
8 Jun 2020
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Trinity engineers use 3D printers at home in battle to tackle shortage of PPE
A father-sons team has produced over 1,000 face shield frames to date for the PPE-Hub and a further 300 full face shields, which have been donated to front line medical staff in hospitals, nursing homes and GP practices.
27 Apr 2020
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Irish business can do more to protect human rights defenders
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, and adjunct professor at the Centre for Social Innovation, Trinity Business School, says business should help protect human rights defenders
11 Sep 2020
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China’s quantum satellite enables first totally secure long-range messages
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harun Siljak writes how this technology is being used to reach a major milestone: long-range secure communication you could trust even without trusting the satellite it runs through.
16 Jun 2020
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Young Economist Award research looks at police behaviour in the U.S.
Dr Nicola Mastrorocco, Assistant Professor in Economics has won the prestigious 2020 European Economic Association (EEA) Young Economist Award.
8 Sep 2020
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Study finds athletes fear being judged as weak when they experience pain or injury
Researchers have undertaken the first multi-centred, international, qualitative study exploring the rower experience of sporting low back pain (LBP).
15 Oct 2020
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How do you communicate when you have language learning difficulties?
Researchers are highlighting a unique study to mark International Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day.
16 Oct 2020
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Professor Luciano Rezzolla delivers inaugural lecture as honorary Andrews Professor in Astronomy (1783)
Professor Rezzolla’s main research topic is the physics of compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars.
26 Feb 2020
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Vitamin D could help fight off Covid-19 – new TILDA research
New TILDA research highlights the key role of Vitamin D in the body’s immune response to fight infection and emphasises the importance of increasing intake while staying at home/’cocooning’.
3 Apr 2020
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Student groups urged to apply for Trinity Trust Special Fund
The Trinity College Dublin Trust is inviting applications from student groups for grants from a special fund of €100,000 to support student life during the pandemic. This fund has been established to assist societies, sports clubs and other organised student groups to develop new projects.
27 Nov 2020
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Internet access and use by older adults in the ‘new normal’
The TILDA report delves into the internet habits and behaviours of adults aged 50 and over in Ireland.
3 Jun 2020
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