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Trinity creates Associate Dean of Graduate Studies role

Prof Wladislaw (Wlad) Rivkin has been appointed Trinity’s first Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. This newly created role was approved at the December Board meeting in line with the delivery of Thrive: Trinity’s Strategic Plan 2025-2030.

12 Dec 2025

Community

Trinity welcomes investment in research infrastructure through INSPIRE programme

Trinity welcomes the launch of INSPIRE, the Government of Ireland’s new €750 million programme to renew and strengthen research infrastructure across the higher education sector.

5 Dec 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Innovation|Research

Trinity College Dublin helps shape international ‘Limerick Framework for Action’ to advance health-promoting campuses

The Limerick Framework for Action, a new international roadmap to embed health and wellbeing across the higher education sector, was formally launched in Dublin this week. The Framework sets out a bold and coordinated vision for creating healthier, more inclusive and supportive learning environments across Ireland’s universities and colleges.

3 Dec 2025

Community|Health|Students|Sustainability

The Eddie Jordan Foundation to Support Formula Trinity

Cleavon Castelino, Team Advisor of Formula Trinity, said: "The Eddie Jordan Foundation’s involvement gives our students access to expertise and opportunities that are genuinely transformative. We are incredibly grateful and excited to begin this journey together."

3 Dec 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Innovation|Science|Students

First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska is welcomed to Trinity

To mark the historic visit, Dr Linda Doyle presented the First Lady with a gift edition of Ireland’s most famous manuscript, the Book of Kells.

2 Dec 2025

Community|Society

FGM Activist Ifrah Ahmed receives Trinity honorary degree

Ifrah Ahmed, Mei Lin Yap, Ambassador Liaison Officer with the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability , computer visionary Pietro Perona and Kathy Prendergast, one of Ireland's foremost living artists, all received Trinity’s highest honour.

28 Nov 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Society

Trinity awards posthumous degree to writer Christy Nolan

This unique award comes in the year of the 25th anniversary of Trinity’s disAbility service, and celebrates the fact that Christy, despite immense physical barriers, found a community in Trinity that recognised his potential and his voice.

27 Nov 2025

Arts|Community|Society

Trinity’s Bookmarks programme celebrates creativity and inclusion with Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project

This partnership forms part of the PATH 5 initiative supporting Traveller and Roma communities, with outreach activities carried out in collaboration between Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

24 Nov 2025

Arts|Community|Society

Trinity receives first philanthropic donation in cryptocurrency

The funds will be used to support Pathways to Business, a programme run by Trinity Business School and Trinity Access Programmes that bridges gaps for second-level and undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds, helping them pursue careers in business.

20 Nov 2025

Business|Community|Innovation|Students

Trinity welcomes three new Pro-Chancellors

Professor Gerard McHugh, Hugo MacNeill, and Mark Orr have been inaugurated as Pro-Chancellors of Trinity College Dublin at special ceremonies in the university.

18 Nov 2025

Community

Trinity places 29th in world in 2026 QS sustainability ranking

Trinity’s Vice-President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout said: “There are now a huge number of people across the whole university working towards a shared vision for a better future, including our student body, colleagues in Estates and Facilities, Academic Practice, the Library, Catering, the Health Service, as well as the academic schools. We can be proud of what we have achieved so far."

18 Nov 2025

Environment|Health|Society|Students|Sustainability

Professor John Kelleher delivers inaugural lecture as Chair of Computer Science at Trinity

Prof. Kelleher delivered his lecture “Aging, Artificial Intelligence, and Outcomes: Modeling Age in Stroke Risk and Patient Prognosis” to a full house in the Trinity Business School last week.

14 Nov 2025

Health|Research|Science

Trinity researchers feature in Highly Cited Researchers List of 2025

Three researchers from Trinity -- Profs. Valeria Nicolosi, Alan Irvine MD DSc, and Jonathan Coleman -- featured today in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 List.

12 Nov 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Learners urged to take part in 2025 College Awareness Week

Now in its twelfth year, CAW celebrates the importance of post-secondary education and highlights the diverse pathways available to learners of all ages—especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.

10 Nov 2025

Community|Students

CONNECT celebrates a decade of pioneering research and innovation

The CONNECT Research Ireland Centre this week marked its tenth anniversary with a vibrant showcase celebrating a decade of pioneering research, innovation, and collaboration in future networks and communications.

7 Nov 2025

Innovation|Research|Science

We’ve done the science — let’s get on with climate action

Marking the launch of Trinity's Climate Gateway, Professor Karen Wiltshire issues a call to action: "This is no longer about whether climate change is real. It’s about how we adapt and how we mitigate — decisively, collectively, and intelligently."

3 Nov 2025

Community|Environment

Trinity student honoured at 2025 Hamilton Prize ceremony

Ronan Zaletel, an undergraduate in Trinity’s School of Mathematics, was honoured at the 2025 Hamilton Prize ceremony on 16th October – the day on which famed Trinity scientist William Rowan Hamilton discovered quaternion algebra in 1843.

23 Oct 2025

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Trinity celebrates Haddad Foundation as fellowship programme extended

The Haddad Fellowships, which are worth some €40,000 for each student, are mainly focused on the arts and humanities, and are designed to advance the intellectual and cultural landscape in Brazil.

23 Oct 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Culture

"It changed my life”: 90-year-old former Trinity English student recalls university in the 1950s

“It changed my life at that age. I went there straight from a very strict English boarding school so the freedom was just wonderful. We just talked and talked and talked.”

20 Oct 2025

Arts|Community

Secondary students search for “ein Stein” in classic mathematics challenge

Researchers from Trinity’s Experimental Mathematics Lab, partnering with staff in Trinity Access Programmes (TAP), welcomed 18 TY students from Coláiste Bríde and Marian College to take part in a classic “ein Stein” challenge as Maths Week takes centre stage in Ireland this week.

14 Oct 2025

Research|Science|Students