College News - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Weston Foundation Scholarship to fund MSc in Responsible Business & Sustainability

Applications have opened for the new Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation Scholarship, which aims to support young people from under-represented socio-economic backgrounds in taking on Trinity Business School’s newly launched MSc in Responsible Business & Sustainability.

19 Feb 2024

Awards and Funding|Business|Students

Trinity to feature in ‘My Uni Life’ series on RTÉ

This exciting series returns to our screens for a second season as cameras capture life across a busy year on campus, beginning on Friday February 16th at 8pm on RTE One or RTÉ Player.

13 Feb 2024

Community|Society|Students

Trinity welcomes STEMM community to ItsHer Summit

The summit (March 7 and 8) will bring the STEMM community together to share ideas and celebrate achievements in support of International Women’s Day.

9 Feb 2024

Community|Research|Society

Anxiety, cognition and emotion in the human brain

The Inaugural Lecture of Prof Sonia Bishop will take place on Tuesday 13th February at 6.15pm in the Robert Emmet lecture theatre.

6 Feb 2024

Arts|Research

Eight students graduate from Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities

The graduates - James Conlan, Jodie Daly, Oscar Daly, Conor Dunne, Liam Foley, Jack McFadden, Cliodhna O’Rourke and Diarmuid Owens - completed 18 modules over two years of full-time study.

1 Feb 2024

Community|Students

Trinity Tree of the month - the Giant Redwood

This month we are bringing you one of our old ‘native’ tree species, Sequoiadendron giganteum, referred to as Giant Redwood or Wellingtonia. These are some of the most massive trees in the world, with the tallest living specimen standing at 84m tall with girths of 35m. They can live almost 3,500 years, making some of them the oldest living organisms on earth.

31 Jan 2024

Sustainability

Best wishes to Senator David Norris

Trinity says a fond farewell to David Norris who has retired from Seanad Éireann after 37 years as a Senator.

25 Jan 2024

Community

Trinity boosts sustainable aviation fuel research with new partnership

This adds a fresh dimension to Trinity's work on SAFs, which now involves four main projects with a shared goal of making air travel better for the planet.

25 Jan 2024

Business|Research|Sustainability

Researchers and professional support staff meet at inaugural Coordinator Mobilisation event

The event allowed eight PIs leading large-scale Horizon Europe Pillar 2 or European Innovation Council projects to introduce these projects and to showcase the important work of key teams around college who provide post-award support.

19 Jan 2024

Awards and Funding|Community|Research

New funding for EU University Alliances

CHARM-EU receives additional €391,300 in government funding

18 Jan 2024

Trinity hosts major world conference on school effectiveness

More than 500 delegates will attend the conference from 9-12 January, reflecting on strategies to support and enhance the functioning of schools.

5 Jan 2024

Research|Society

Wells and Wellbeing – new book links the water science and traditions behind Irish holy wells

Dr Bruce Misstear, Fellow Emeritus in Trinity’s School of Engineering, recently launched a new book – Wells and Wellbeing, The Hydrogeology of Irish Holy Wells.

21 Dec 2023

Culture|Environment|Science

Tree of the Month - Erman’s Birch

This December, we are bringing you one of the more iconic Trinity trees, Betula emanii or Erman’s Birch. You’ll spot these two on your right and left as you enter through the Front Gate. The Erman’s Birch were planted around 1950 to replace the Oregon Maples that once stood there. One Maple blew down in a storm in 1945 and the decision to remove the other was eventually made to restore symmetry to the area.

19 Dec 2023

Community|Sustainability

Christmas greetings – Trinity holiday closure arrangements 2023/2024

Trinity College Dublin will be closed from the end of business hours on Thursday December 21st 2023 to the start of normal business hours on Tuesday January 2nd 2024.

14 Dec 2023

Professor Viet Pham honoured with IEEE Best Young Researcher Award

Viet, Assistant Professor in Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics, won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

12 Dec 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Revolutionising urban futures: Trendhunters reimagines Dún Laoghaire

Smart Dún Laoghaire is relaunching its futurism engagement programme, Trendhunters, which aims to integrate futures thinking more into Dublin’s smart city environment.

8 Dec 2023

Community|Research|Society

School of Social Sciences & Philosophy holds Student Prize Ceremony

The ceremony concluded with a special presentation by Francis O'Toole and Paul O'Grady to Professor John O’Hagan to mark his substantial contributions to the Department of Economics, spanning an impressive six decades to date.

7 Dec 2023

Awards and Funding|Students

Students receive 2023 Three Ireland Connect to STEM Scholarships

Trinity this week announced five student recipients of the 2023 Three Ireland Connect to STEM Scholarships for Women at an evening ceremony hosted by Three Ireland.

6 Dec 2023

SandboxAQ funds two Quantum Science and Technology MSc scholarships for under-represented students

As part of an ongoing collaboration these scholarships, available to students from the Global South, will help train the future quantum workforce and bring greater diversity to the quantum ecosystem.

6 Dec 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Students

Embracing Sensory Diversity with TCD Sense Map

Trinity unveils groundbreaking accessibility tool during TCDSU Disability Week

29 Nov 2023

Community|Society|Students