College News - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity-led SHAPE-ID project at the forefront of new LERU report

LERU provides an important update to its seminal 2016 study on interdisciplinarity whose findings have been referenced worldwide. It also acknowledges the key insights that the SHAPE-ID (Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe) consortium has made to the field of interdisciplinary research since the 2016 report.

3 Apr 2023

Innovation|Research

Trinitones to make debut on the big screen

From College Green to Hollywood Boulevard: Trinity’s all-male acapella group announce their involvement a forthcoming Hollywood feature film.

1 Apr 2023

Seductive Concepts: How Management Fashions become Management Theories

Professor Catherine Welch will deliver her Inaugural Lecture on Tuesday 4th April at 6pm in the Dargan Lecture Theatre, Trinity Business School.

28 Mar 2023

Business

Health & Sports Week launch event celebrates free contraception for women aged 17-26

Healthy People, Healthy Planet is the theme of this year’s Health & Sports Week which kicked off with a celebration of the new government scheme which provides free contraception for women between 17 and 26.

27 Mar 2023

Culture|Environment|Health|Students

Project launched to support EU urban food sharing initiatives

This project builds directly on the success of Prof. Anna Davies’ award-winning SHARECITY project, which ran from 2016 to 2021 to assess the practicality and sustainability of food-sharing systems.

23 Mar 2023

Introducing Trinity tree of the month - the Ginkgo

This month we are featuring our two Ginkgo biloba trees, commonly known as Ginkgo which were planted in Library Square in 2019. The north side Ginkgo is 45cm wide and 9 metres tall while the south side tree is 47cm wide and almost 8 metres tall. When these trees are mature, they will store up to 4,954 kilograms of carbon.

23 Mar 2023

Environment

Chris Morash explores the literary past of Dublin, and Trinity

In his new book, 'Dublin: A Writer’s City', Prof Chris Morash, explores Dublin’s literary past and investigates how Dublin, and Trinity, have been reflected by, and created by, its authors, poets and dramatists.

23 Mar 2023

Arts|Research|Society

Trinity joins EIT Urban Mobility to create liveable urban spaces

Trinity College Dublin and Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace have announced membership of Urban Mobility (UM), an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Trinity's membership of EIT UM will be officially launched at an event in Tangent, Trinity's Ideas Workspace today, Wednesday 22nd March from 12pm during Green Week.

22 Mar 2023

Sustainability

Trinity teams awarded funding in US-Ireland Research Programme

Four Trinity research groups have been named among 12 projects to receive funding under the US-Ireland Research Programme.

20 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Act of Remembrance and Thanksgiving

The Anatomy Department warmly invite you to an Act of Remembrance and Thanksgiving in memory of those who donated their remains to Medical Science in the College Chapel on Thursday 23rd March 2023

16 Mar 2023

“Hope and History” inspire new Irish-South African Research Chair

The launch of the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair by Fionnuala Gilsenan, Ambassador of Ireland to South Africa, furthers the collaboration between the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape.

15 Mar 2023

Arts|Awards and Funding|Culture|Society

Earthquake in Türkiye & Syria

An email from Professor Emma K. Stokes, Vice President for Global Engagement, to the College community regarding supports available to anybody affected by the recent earthquake in Türkiye & Syria.

10 Mar 2023

Community

Trinity and UCD go Head-to-Head in Colours Boat Race

Taking place on Saturday, 25th March from 12:30pm, the colours boat race sees Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin go head-to-head again on the River Liffey.

9 Mar 2023

Students

Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?

On Thursday 23rd March, Professor Mark Cunningham, Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy and the Head of the Discipline of Physiology at Trinity College Dublin, will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled “Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?”. The lecture will take place in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at 6pm, and you can register for it here. The lecture is free and open to the public.

9 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Science

‘Team Phoenix' soars as Trinity researchers win Air Quality Data Hack 2023 Event

Six researchers from Trinity’s Schools of Engineering and Computer Science and Statistics scooped the top prize of €1500 as winners of the recent Air Quality Data Hack 2023 Event.

6 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Five Trinity teams to inspire public engagement with STEM via SFI Discover Programme awards

The winning projects are among those to have secured funding in the latest Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme competition, which is designed to empower and inspire deep public engagement with STEM education.

6 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Science

Ryan McGowan wins prestigious Hamilton Prize

Ryan, a final year student in the School of Mathematics, has won the prestigious undergraduate Hamilton Prize as the top student in his programme at Trinity. He is one of nine winners from across the universities in Ireland to have received the award from the Royal Irish Academy (RIA).

2 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Students

School of Physics hosts Diversity in Quantum Event

The School of Physics joined forces with SandboxAQ, a US based quantum technology company, to celebrate and promote diversity in the rapidly growing field of quantum science and technology.

1 Mar 2023

Research|Science

Unique national skills platform will help close Ireland’s digital skills gap

The strategic research partnership is being led by The Learnovate Centre in Trinity College Dublin, Cisco and Skillnet Ireland

28 Feb 2023

Research

Trinity appoints new Dean of Research, Professor Sinéad Ryan

Trinity College Dublin is delighted to announce the appointment of the new Dean of Research, Professor Sinéad Ryan FTCD.

24 Feb 2023

Community|Research

Twelve projects awarded Irish Research Council ‘New Foundations’ funding

New Foundations awards are designed to help civic society organisations and Government departments to devise evidence-based strategies and policies.

16 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

Provost's Innovation Challenge 2023

Another successful Provost Innovation Challenge at Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace where students tackled the topic: Student Accommodation

15 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Business|Community|Innovation

The History of the Future: the new podcast confronting the challenges of tomorrow

The Trinity Long Room Hub's Schuler Democracy Forum has just launched its new podcast 'The History of the Future'.

15 Feb 2023

Arts|Community

Éigse na Tríonóide in Trinity College Dublin

Éigse na Tríonóide, Trinity College Dublin’s annual Irish language festival, will take place from 13-17th February 2023 in collaboration with the Students’ Union, An Cumann Gaelach student society and Trinity’s Irish Language Office.

13 Feb 2023

Community|Culture|Students

Earthquake in Türkiye & Syria

An email about the Earthquake in Türkiye & Syria to the College community from Professor Emma K. Stokes, Vice President for Global Engagement.

10 Feb 2023

Community

Trinity Access Programme celebrates scholarship awards

Trinity Access Programmes celebrate 90 undergraduate scholarships coinciding with their 30th Anniversary

9 Feb 2023

Ireland’s marriage equality referendum and the ideal of a ‘people’s constitution’

Professor Aileen Kavanagh will deliver her inaugural lecture entitled ‘The People’s Constitution: An American Dream Through Irish Eyes’ next week.

9 Feb 2023

Research|Society

New research consortium aims to explain quantum measurement

The project is jointly led by Maximilian Lock and Nicolai Friis in Vienna and Felix Binder, who leads the Quantum Information Theory Group in Trinity’s School of Physics in Dublin.

7 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

New course highlights diversity and inclusion in further education and training

Designed specifically for staff working in the Further Education and Training sector, the course was designed by Dr Joanne Banks and Professor Michael Shevlin from Trinity's School of Education in collaboration with Dr Anne Costelloe and Carrie Archer from City of Dublin ETB.

2 Feb 2023

Students

World premiere of new opera by Trinity's Evangelia Rigaki and playwright Marina Carr

A new chamber opera, entitled 'Old Ghosts', will premier this week in MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland. The production features music by Evangelia Rigaki, Head of Trinity's Dept of Music, and text by playwright Marina Carr.

1 Feb 2023

Arts|Culture