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Challenge-Based Project Awards created to honour Provost Prendergast

These Challenge based awards are made possible through the generous philanthropic support of the Provost’s Council, a network of leading Trinity alumni and supporters who act as advisors to the College.

26 Jul 2021

Red-listed swifts return safely to Trinity’s Museum Building

The iconic, fast-flying birds nested in the building for many years before disappearing following a period of renovation, but the installation of bird calls to encourage the speedy swifts back has reaped rewards.

23 Jul 2021

High COVID-19 infection rates in Northern Ireland increased cases in bordering Irish counties

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin analysed official statistics on confirmed COVID-19 cases on the island of Ireland for 52 weeks from March 2020.

21 Jul 2021

Research

Trinity marine biologists support Save Our Shark campaign

Over 9,000 people have so far petitioned Government to afford legal protection to basking sharks in Irish waters, where these magnificent creatures spend time each year.

14 Jul 2021

Research

Trinity Researchers Raise Grave Concerns for Palestinian Bedouins

"This research is so vital because without spotlighting the imminent forced displacement of the Bedouin, their very livelihoods will be further destroyed.”

8 Jul 2021

Provost’s Trinity Excellence in Teaching Awards

The 20th anniversary of the awards was celebrated on June 29 in the Provost’s Garden. Congratulations to all the winners.

30 Jun 2021

Provost’s PhD Project Awards 2020-21

The fourth round of the Provost’s PhD Awards were celebrated yesterday at a special reception in the Provost’s Garden. Congratulations to all the winners.

29 Jun 2021

Trinity launches Ireland’s first distance learning MBA

As demand for remote work and study sets in for the long-run, Trinity Business School launches ‘four years in the making’ Flexible Executive MBA, only weeks after unveiling new state-of-the-art ‘Matrix Room.’

17 Jun 2021

Tangent gets LaunchBox 2021 underway as 10 student entrepreneurship teams begin their journey

After an application period which saw overwhelming interest from enterprising students, 10 teams collectively representing 9 schools from across Ireland’s oldest university have been selected to participate.

16 Jun 2021

Growing Up in Ireland: link between health and family circumstances

New Growing Up in Ireland research has found that most children get on very well with their parents and like their teachers, but their health and well-being are strongly linked to their family circumstances.

16 Jun 2021

Research

Trinity announced as Basketball Ireland Centre of Excellence

Basketball Ireland announced Trinity College Dublin and Limerick Institute of Technology as the latest Basketball Ireland Centres of Excellence.

16 Jun 2021

Dr Sheila Cannon wins Trinity’s Civic Engagement Award

Dr Cannon has worked for Trinity for the past five years. She has worked with and supported 80 social enterprises in Ireland and internationally in various ways through teaching, research, and engagement.

15 Jun 2021

Trinity and ESRI launch MSc in Economic Policy for policy makers

The MSc in Economic Policy will provide students with a grounding in contemporary aspects of economic policy design and implementation and equip them to engage confidently in evidence-based economic policy making.

14 Jun 2021

Trinity and Microsoft join forces to accelerate next-generation quantum technologies

Microsoft will provide significant funding to support PhD students working on cutting-edge quantum research at Trinity and the establishment of a female scholarship programme for Trinity’s MSc in Quantum Science and Technology

11 Jun 2021

New Toolkit to Transform Collaborative Research Approaches

For more than 2 years, the EU-funded SHAPE-ID project at Trinity College Dublin has been working with European partners with a particular focus on how to strengthen the integration of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) in inter-and transdisciplinary research

10 Jun 2021

Research

Astrophysicists bring partial solar eclipse to Irish public

There will be solar telescopes with cameras and you can join leading researchers live on YouTube for the watch party, which will showcase a close-up of the Sun so that we can see the eclipse as it happens.

9 Jun 2021

Research

Trinity researchers team up with ONK Therapeutics to seek improved cancer therapies

The work will be led by Trinity's Dr David Finlay to optimise the metabolism and engineering of NK cells for improved cancer therapies.

8 Jun 2021

Research

TCIN awarded Platinum Green Lab certifcation

We are excited to announce that Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) has been awarded Platinum Level Green Lab certification from My Green Lab, the first in Trinity and second in Ireland to achieve this status.

4 Jun 2021

New book gives ‘Perspectives on the Person with Dementia and Family Caregiving in Ireland’

The newly published book is an introductory Irish guide that brings together local and international research to help dispel some of the myths and stigma surrounding dementia.

1 Jun 2021

Research

Trinity student wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill judges’ highly commended award

Trinity's student Matthew Thomas wins 2021 Mary Mulvihill judges’ highly commended award for his essay 'Compromised: Lessons learned from the AIDS epidemic’.

27 May 2021