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Trinity Creative Challenge Award Winners Announced

?Awards totalling €40,000 to fund innovative creative arts projects were announced.

31 Jan 2018

Future Breath exhibition to launch at Science Gallery Dublin

This evolving work by Siobhan McDonald focuses on the importance of the air we breathe and the threat that plants and nature face in the wake of climate change.

12 Dec 2018

Dementia-friendly hospital guidelines from a Universal Design approach

The guidelines should help physical hospital environments provide a better experience for people with dementia, as well as their families and caregivers.

2 Jul 2018

Trinity trio secure SFI-National Natural Chinese Science Foundation funding

Trinity researchers, Professors John Donegan, Luiz Da Silva, and Plamen Stamenov, won three of the eight new funding awards.

28 Jun 2018

Exciting climax to rugby Colours

Disappointment for the women's team and a dramatic victory for the men

9 Apr 2018

Trinity unveils plans for Grand Canal Innovation District centred on a new campus in the heart of Dublin’s docklands

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar T.D. and Provost Patrick Prendergast have launched a far-reaching plan for the creation of the Grand Canal Innovation District in Dublin.

12 Jul 2018

Chemistry breakthroughs open new doors to drug developers and cancer researchers

The discoveries involved adding new materials to a previously unstable chemical scaffold and building molecules onto the “pigments of life”.

1 Feb 2018

Limerick students win Science at Trinity Global Challenges Award

Thomas Gomes, Donnacha Henchy and Jack Murtagh won the special award, provided by Trinity, for their project at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

15 Jan 2018

Revolutionary healthcare proposal – DigiTwins – seeking EU Flagship success

DigiTwins is onto the second stage (of three) in the competition for EU Flagship status; if successful, it would be financed by Horizon 2020 funding worth €1 bn over 10 years.

1 Jun 2018

State-of-the-art learning space will support new MSc in Computer Science

The space will support the teaching and learning of postgraduate students specialising in Data Science, Intelligent Systems, Future Networks, and Augmented and Virtual Reality.

9 Feb 2018

Truth serum, zero-G and the Vomit Comet: the hunt for deep space flight solutions

The research team is primarily concerned with better understanding how water behaves in the absence of gravity (in space), with water (or steam, specifically) seen as the golden bullet for powering spacecraft deep into space.

25 Sep 2018

Marley & Me: An Evening with John Grogan

American journalist and author of the bestseller ‘Marley & Me’ John Grogan will give a public talk and interview in Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018.

2 Oct 2018

Allergan Innovation award-winner to further TB vaccination research

Dr Cilian O’Maoldomhnaigh is hoping todevelop more effective vaccinations against tuberculosis (TB).

19 Apr 2018

Trinity graduates win Schwarzman scholarships

Two Trinity students—Conor McGlynn and Conor O’Meara—are among the 147 individuals that comprise the 2020 cohort.

4 Dec 2018

Ten years on from the Irish banking crisis what has changed?

Ten years on from the Irish banking crisis, a public discussion in Trinity College Dublin explored whether enough has changed in the Irish financial, business and cultural sectors.

13 Sep 2018

Fear of litigation is a key factor in decision to perform C-sections

Fear of litigation and perceived safety concerns and are among the key factors influencing the decision to perform a caesarean section, according to an international literature review conducted by researchers at the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

30 Jul 2018

Need to rebuild trust in the Banking Sector, conference told

Corporate Governance Conference explores culture and diversity in the financial services sector in Ireland and hears of the need to rebuild trust in the Banking Sector.

30 Oct 2018

Astrophysicists gear up to map Perseid meteor shower

One 'shooting stars' per may be seen each minute with the naked eye at the peak, which should fall at night on Saturday August 12.

10 Aug 2018

Ghost stories, twinkling stars and Christmas trees – Trinity’s festive research

The enduring appeal of the Christmas ghost story, twinkling stars and exoplanets and how climate change will affect Christmas trees were among topics explored at a festive research showcase recently.

19 Dec 2018

Research

New discovery helps explain why cells with identical genes perform unique jobs

A newly discovered family of proteins -- present in humans and all complex animals -- are key players in controlling how stem cells specialise and embryos develop.

5 Apr 2018

Reframing ’68 – the year of ‘global revolt’ 50 years on

The year 1968 is often regarded as a year of ‘global revolt’ as revolutions around the globe cut across national boundaries, from student protests in France to the Cultural Revolution in China. Marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic year of protest, historians and cultural experts from around the world will gather in Trinity this week to ask what does 1968 mean in 2018?

27 Sep 2018

Research

Healthcare researchers to tap into AI for innovative solutions

The Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation has expanded its research collaboration with IBM Research Ireland, and this will result in exciting new healthcare research collaborations

22 May 2018

Trinity launches 40 fully funded Provost’s PhD Project Awards

These 40 doctoral awards are generously funded through alumni donations and profits derived from Trinity’s Commercial Revenue Unit.

17 Apr 2018

Trinity scientists win SFI President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Awards

Dr Lydia Lynch and Dr Tomás Ryan received the prestigious awards to support research into obesity-related disease and understanding how memories are stored in the brain.

25 Jan 2018

Volcano crystals could make it easier to predict eruptions

Professor Balz Kamber and Dr Teresa Ubide explain how eruption histories are 'recorded' in crystals within magma in each and every volcano.

24 Jan 2018

Student entrepreneurs seek startup investment at LaunchBox 2018 Demo Day

This year’s companies address a variety of unmet market needs, including an online booking platform for performers, a product that identifies, prevents and treats healthcare-associated infections, and a hub that connects SMEs with a talented student workforce

31 Aug 2018

Professor Ivana Bacik Awarded

A modern institution with a long and distinguished history, Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court which have the exclusive right to call students to the Bar.

16 Apr 2018

TILDA’s latest report on wellbeing and health in Ireland’s over 50s

New findings by TILDA (the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing at Trinity College Dublin) present the ‘Change in life circumstances’ for Ireland’s over 50s between 2009 and 2016

29 Nov 2018

Research

Master-class introduces secondary school students to particle physics

Trinity’s School of Mathematics hosted the worldwide program, which opens the window of cutting-edge physics to young investigators.

23 Mar 2018

An tairbhe atá le hoideachas dátheangach

D'fhéadfadh buntáiste a bheith le hoideachas dátheangach do leanaí a bhfuil riachtanais speisialta acu de réir mar a deir na daoine a bhfuil plé phoiblí ar an oideachas dátheangach á eagrú acu i gColáiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath.

8 May 2018