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How to stay fit into your 60s and beyond
Ageing is inevitable and is influenced by many things – but keeping active can slow ageing and increase life expectancy.
6 Nov 2019
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Student sponsored silence for Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
On Tuesday morning you may have noticed this group of students on the steps of the Exam Hall in Front Square, they were undergraduate students from the Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies who recently learnt about potential changes to speech and swallowing as a result of motor neurone disease (MND) and the impact this can have […]
14 Feb 2019
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Using tech for better mental health — tackling perinatal depression in women
Dr Gavin Doherty, Associate Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity, focuses his research on designing healthcare technology – particularly to support better mental health.
26 Nov 2019
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Breathing new life into forgotten medieval chants for St Patrick & other saints
Trinity is leading an ambitious international cultural heritage project which is bringing back to life forgotten medieval chants and prayers associated with Irish saints
13 Mar 2019
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Trinity to develop educational resources to support responsible research
Project INTEGRITY, which will last three years, has received funding of €2.4 million via the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme.
5 Apr 2019
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€100 million investment announced for 6 new SFI Research & Training Centres
Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD and Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD, yesterday announced an investment of over €100 million in six new SFI Centres for Research Training. The SFI Centres for Research Training programme, the first postgraduate training programme run by Science Foundation […]
6 Mar 2019
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AMBER secures €40 million in Government funding
AMBER the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and Bio-Engineering Research, headquartered at Trinity has secured €40 million in Government funding for phase two of the centre as part of Project Ireland 2040.
9 May 2019
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Chemists create self-assembling material with suite of new properties
The material self-assembles into 2D networks in a predictable and reproducible manner and may one day have numerous applications.
15 Oct 2019
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Trinity researchers uncover critical metabolic switch for inflammatory diseases
The work identifies the protein, PKM2, as a potential therapeutic target for treating a host of diseases mediated by over-active immune cells.
21 Nov 2019
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Trinity students to represent Ireland at Enactus World Cup
The trip to Silicon Valley is the reward for winning the national version of a competition that celebrates positive innovations created at third-level institutions.
28 Jun 2019
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Four in ten Irish companies currently use Artificial Intelligence (AI)
World AI experts are meeting in Dublin this week to develop international standards at an international plenary hosted by Trinity’s ADAPT and the National Standards Authority of Ireland.
8 Apr 2019
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Uncovering the Hidden Foundations of Cognition in Infancy
In his inaugural lecture as the Thomas Mitchell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor Rhodri Cusack addressed the important question – Why are human infants so slow to develop?
22 Feb 2019
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Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Programme 2019
We celebrated the selection of 22 Laidlaw Scholars, the second cohort of Trinity students to join the Laidlaw network, on 7 May.
13 May 2019
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What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about mega cities in Africa
Ricardo Reboredo explores how and why a major development billed as a game changed in the urban footprint of Johannesburg six years ago failed and how that relates to the broader African urban context.
26 Mar 2019
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Geneticists unlock ancient tales of cattle herding and evolution
The team deciphered the history of early bovines by sequencing 67 ancient genomes from both wild and domestic cattle sampled from across eight millennia.
11 Jul 2019
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Trinity ranked in 37th place in Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings 2019
The global higher education ranking is based on four core performance pillars: resources, engagement, outcomes and environment.
4 Jul 2019
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Periodic Table projections light up Chemistry Week at Trinity
The projections highlight the serious threat posed to the existence of a growing number of elements through a lack of recycling old tech devices.
21 Nov 2019
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Station-less bike sharing in Dublin – faster, healthier, greener
Around 7.5% of the 6,000 weekly trips made via Bleeperbike could have happened by car or taxi, which saves an estimated five tonnes of carbon per year.
20 Jun 2019
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Trinity to ‘Go Atlantic Blue’ for World Oceans Day
Trinity will join the likes of Dublin Airport, King John’s Castle in Limerick and Baily Lighthouse in lighting its buildings blue.
7 Jun 2019
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Fr Tony Coote Assistant Professor in MND announced
Trinity College announces the Tony Coote Assistant Professor in Motor Neuron Disease (MND).
3 Sep 2019
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Trinity researchers find stark social inequalities in children’s body mass index
Researchers at Trinity College have found that socio-economic inequalities in children’s body mass index (BMI) emerge during the pre-school years and widen across childhood and into early adolescence
20 May 2019
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Irish 3 year olds are consuming up to 10 teaspoons of sugar a day
A new study from the Dublin Dental University Hospital at Trinity has shown that Irish 3 year olds are consuming, on average, 10 level teaspoons a day of 'free sugars'.
9 Aug 2019
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Trinity Student wins 2019 Mary Mulvihill Award
Trinity PhD student Laura Katharine Finnegan is the 2019 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students that commemorates the legacy of science journalist and author Mary Mulvihill.
24 May 2019
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Professor Luke O’Neill is awarded prestigious EU ERC Award of €2.5m
These highly prestigious awards allow exceptional researchers to pursue ground-breaking research.
28 Mar 2019
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Things people say about exercise that aren’t true
It can be hard to include exercise in our busy lives, despite the best of intentions. There are a lot of reasons people don’t exercise, and a lot of misconceptions about exercise. Here are nine common misconceptions about exercise and what research actually tells us.
16 Dec 2019
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A revolutionary material that could protect aircraft and speed up internet connections
The new, biologically produced material, will be a material of choice for next-generation optoelectronic and photonic devices.
6 Sep 2019
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‘Invasion 1169’ conference on 850th anniversary of Anglo-Norman invasion
To mark the 850th anniversary of the Anglo-Norman invasion Trinity's Department of History is hosting an international conference, 'Invasion 1169', to re-evaluate the significance of the invasion and the impact it had on Ireland.
1 May 2019
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Acclaimed writer Adam Mars-Jones in residence at Trinity
The School of English recently hosted an evening in celebration of the residency of Adam Mars-Jones as the inaugural Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow in the Oscar Wilde Centre.
25 Mar 2019
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Trinity among newly announced European University alliances in pioneering initiative
These European University alliances will enhance the quality and attractiveness of European higher education and boost cooperation between institutions, their students and staff.
26 Jun 2019
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Author Mark O’Connell awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019
The prize is awarded for a body of work by emerging Irish writers that shows exceptional promise.
23 Sep 2019