Articles
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Trinity student wins Inclusivity Partnership Award
This week, Children’s Books Ireland and the School of English announced the recipient of the 2023 Inclusivity Partnership Award. The partnership enables researchers to work closely with experts in the area of children’s books to investigate key issues in contemporary publishing for young readers. The recipient, Linde Vergeylen, is a student from the M.Phil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity. Under the supervision of Dr Pádraic Whyte, she will lead an investigation into the representation of disabilities in Young Adult verse novels.
20 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Community|Culture|Students
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Shark shock – scientists discover filter-feeding basking sharks are warm-bodied like great whites
Approximately 99.9% of fish and shark species are “cold-blooded”, meaning their body tissues generally match the temperature of the water they swim in – but researchers have just discovered the mighty basking shark is a one-in-a-thousand exception.
20 Jul 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Professor Jane Ohlmeyer elected Fellow of the British Academy
Professor Ohlmeyer, from Trinity’s School of Histories and Humanities, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, which today welcomed a new group of leading international humanities and social sciences researchers to its Fellowship for 2023.
21 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Culture
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New study identifies association between lower levels of vitamin d and inflammation in older adults
Ageing experts at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick have shown associations of vitamin D status with C-reactive protein (CRP, a measure of inflammation) in older adults.
21 Jul 2023
Health|Research|Science
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“Live” human brain biosamples to revolutionise translational neuroscience research
Researchers from Trinity are collaborating with those from the University of Oxford on a new project that will provide access to high quality, “live” human brain biosamples. They believe this approach has the potential to revolutionise research for the benefit of patients.
26 Jul 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Academy of the Near Future and Cellnex Foundation partner to upskill students on smart technologies and digital connectivity
The partnership, which will run for three years, will develop young people’s understanding of smart technologies and digital connectivity in primary schools across Dublin and nationwide.
27 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Society|Students
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Eoin McNamee takes up inaugural Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Chair
As holder of the inaugural Maxeke-Robinson Chair, Professor McNamee will give a keynote lecture entitled ‘Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: the Border in Ireland as Unconcluded Space’, at the CHR’s celebrated international Winter School in August 2023.
31 Jul 2023
Arts|Research
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Professor Rose Anne Kenny appointed first ever female Regius Professor of Physic (1637) at Trinity
An event to mark Professor Kenny’s appointment also celebrated the School of Medicine’s female ‘full professors’
31 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Health|Research
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Trinity tree of the month- the Kentucky Coffee Tree
This month we are featuring the Gymnocladus dioicus, commonly known as the Kentucky Coffee Tree, which was planted in 2020 on the boardwalk side of College Park. It is currently 5.6 metres tall, 25 cm in girth, and can grow to almost five times its current size. When mature it will store up to 1200 kg of carbon.
1 Aug 2023
Community|Environment|Sustainability
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How secondary cities can compete with superstar cities
Local universities, global connectivity and entrepreneurship can help secondary cities combat the geographic polarisation of innovation in superstar cities, according to new research conducted in Trinity Business School and Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
3 Aug 2023
Business|Community|Research