College News
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Trinity places in top 50 in 7 categories for THE global impact rankings
Trinity College Dublin has been named 6th best university in the world in terms of Gender Equality and ranks in the top 50 in 7 total categories in the 2021 University Impact Rankings from Times Higher Education (THE).
21 Apr 2021
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Humanities Horizons Lecture, The Age of the Technocene: Why we need the Arts and Humanities in the 4th Industrial Revolution
This evening, Wednesday 21 April, the Long Room Hub's annual Humanities Horizons Lecture will take place online.
21 Apr 2021
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Diane Louie wins 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
Diane Louie has been announced as the winner of the 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her first book of poems Fractal Shores.
21 Apr 2021
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Tangent launches new mentoring programme for student startups
Tangent, Trinity's Ideas Workspace, has launched a new mentoring programme supporting Trinity students and their startups.
9 Apr 2021
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Augmented reality game promotes multilingualism in schools
Trinity and other academic partners in Europe have launched an augmented reality game ‘Babelar’ to show primary school pupils the value of the languages they possess and support teachers in becoming more aware of multilingualism and the value of a multilingual education.
8 Apr 2021
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Eight Trinity researchers receive Irish Research Council Awards
Eight Trinity researchers have received awards from the Irish Research Council. The funds will support projects across diverse issues, including those affecting carers, senior citizens and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on wellbeing.
7 Apr 2021
Research
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Major climate change themed artwork planned near Grand Canal
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Theatre Festival and Brokentalkers have unveiled plans for a major public artwork, ‘Rising’, which will be located near the Grand Canal, Dublin in Autumn 2021 on the subject of climate change and climate action.
31 Mar 2021
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Trinity secures three more Athena SWAN awards for commitment to gender equality
Trinity's Schools of Histories and Humanities, Computer Science and Statistics, and Engineering have secured Athena SWAN Bronze awards in the latest round of awards to recognise commitment to gender equality.
31 Mar 2021
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Professor Alan Irvine elected as a Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow
Professor Irvine joins the RSE’s current roll of around 1,600 leading thinkers and practitioners from Scotland and beyond, whose work has a significant impact on the world.
30 Mar 2021
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Pandemic negatively affecting children and young adults from low-income families
Pandemic affects children and young adults from low-income families negatively in terms of internet access, quiet places to study and higher likelihoods of living with someone vulnerable to severe COVID-19 disease.
26 Mar 2021
Research
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Innovative masters programme on sustainability launched
A new international Master’s in Global Challenges for Sustainability accredited jointly by five leading universities of the CHARM-EU Alliance has been launched.
24 Mar 2021
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Why we should turn meatballs green – new research underlines significant environmental benefits
As part of a major EU study in promoting sustainable diets and food products in Europe, researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick compared the environmental impacts of plant-based and beef meat balls over 16 impact criteria.
23 Mar 2021
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Window to My World: A Celebration of World Poetry Day, 2021
To celebrate World Poetry Day 2021, the Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub has released a series of videos showcasing poetry from refugees, asylum seekers and exiled poets in Ireland.
23 Mar 2021
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Trinity testbed connects with Manhattan in transatlantic telecoms research partnership
The OpenIreland telecoms testbed at the CONNECT Centre in Trinity and COSMOS in New York City are to connect physically as part of a new transatlantic research partnership.
22 Mar 2021
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Trinity researchers tackle the spiders from Mars
Researchers at Trinity have been shedding light on the enigmatic “spiders from Mars”, providing the first physical evidence that these features on the planet’s surface can be formed by the sublimation of CO2 ice.
19 Mar 2021
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Nobel Prize winner Professor William C Campbell awarded SFI St Patrick’s Day Science Medal
Nobel Prize-winner and Trinity alumnus, Professor William C Campbell, was today awarded the prestigious Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) St Patrick’s Day Science Medal for Academia
16 Mar 2021
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Science Gallery launches IN THESE STRANGE TIMES: a response to the global pandemic
IN THESE STRANGE TIMES features a new series of podcasts, hosted by RTE DJ Tara Stewart and with appearances by researchers and artists working at the cutting edge of biomedical, environmental, behavioural and robotics science.
12 Mar 2021
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Trinity marks the anniversary of lockdown with children’s online exhibition
‘… But then somebody ate a bat and the whole world went CRAZY’: on the anniversary of the first lockdown, the Library of Trinity College has launched an online exhibition showcasing children’s drawings, poems, diaries and fictional accounts in response to lockdown, 2020.
12 Mar 2021
Research
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Growing Up in Ireland report documents mental health outcomes for 13-year olds
16% of 13-year-olds rated themselves as having symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of ‘depression’, according to the new Growing Up in Ireland report written by Trinity's Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology
11 Mar 2021
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CAO applications to Trinity reach record highs
Data from the Central Applications Office issued today shows that first preference applications to Trinity programmes for 2021 have jumped by 38% for a record high of 10,253.
9 Mar 2021