College News - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Christmas Greetings – Trinity College Dublin Closure Arrangements

Trinity will be closed for business from the end of business hours on Thursday, December 22nd 2016 to the start of normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd 2017.

19 Dec 2016

Medium Voltage Project powered up to go

A project to upgrade Trinity’s electrical infrastructure will begin in 2017, led by the Bursar Prof Veronica Campbell.

19 Dec 2016

Trinity’s Mail Room wins Diamond Award for Excellent Service

This is the first time a Mail Room has been awarded Gold, Platinum and Diamond in three successive audits.

18 Dec 2016

Singing in Irish Sign Language

A video of three Trinity students using Irish Sign Language to perform the popular ’santa Claus is coming to town' has gone viral.

16 Dec 2016

Trinity researchers win Royal Society University Research Fellowships

Dr Richard Hobbs, Dr John Goold, and Dr Aidan McDonald secured the prestigious awards and have now joined Trinity.

14 Dec 2016

Trinity researchers win Horizon 2020 funding for deep learning

Trinity researchers, Professor Rozenn Dahyot and Professor David Gregg of Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics have been awarded €608,800 in prestigious Horizon 2020 funding for the project 'Bonseyes'.

13 Dec 2016

Grattan Scholars’ research addresses the major challenges of our time

Grattan Scholarships were awarded to outstanding PhD students who are committed to understanding and improving society through their research, teaching and education.

8 Dec 2016

US Department of Health funds five research projects at Trinity

The projects span fields related to human health, including neuroscience, psychiatric illness and pulmonary disease.

6 Dec 2016

Robots, impossible music and the world’s end: visit Science Gallery in 2017

Can artificial intelligence really do your job better than you? What does an impossible instrument sound like? Should we be worried that the end of the world can be.... entertaining? In 2017, Science Gallery at Trinity will answer all of these questions.

1 Dec 2016

Irish and Brazilian students create next-gen social robots for the elderly

Assistance robots may one day keep people company, as well as perform day-to-day tasks on command and react to situations as they occur in the home.

29 Nov 2016

International employers view Trinity graduates among the elite

Trinity is the only Irish university to appear in the 2016 Global Employability University Rankings.

25 Nov 2016

Wonderful world of ecology and evolution under the microscope

The future of ecology and evolution research in Ireland -- and further -- afield will be discussed at an inaugural conference.

24 Nov 2016

New parasite biology lectureship honours Nobel winner William Campbell

The lectureship in parasite biology is named after former student William Campbell, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in this area in 2015.

24 Nov 2016

Trinity welcomes BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition winners

Four winners of the BTYSTE 2016 competition received scholarships to continue their studies at Trinity.

23 Nov 2016

Why we must reframe ideas about global development

Visiting expert Professor Melissa Leach said we must reframe ideas as she delivered the 2016 Kapuscinski Development Lecture to a packed audience.

17 Nov 2016

Trinity welcomes interdisciplinary swallowing and voice experts

The international experts discussed the latest research in detecting, evaluating and treating people living with swallowing disorders.

16 Nov 2016

New genes from scratch – Trinity geneticist discusses the evolution of DNA

Professor in Genetics, Aoife McLysaght, focused on the evolution of DNA as she delivered the 2016 JBS Haldane Lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

9 Nov 2016

Lightning talks see researchers deliver 120-second bolts of natural science

Twenty-seven researchers from the School of Natural Sciences showcased their research in the 4th annual lightning talks showcase.

7 Nov 2016

Leading epileptologist gives 2016 John Kirker memorial lecture

The 2016 John Kirker Memorial Lecture, named in honour of the pioneering epileptologist and Trinity College Dublin graduate Dr John Kirker, was recently delivered by Dr Sydney Cash, Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and attending epileptologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. The lecture entitled 'New Perspectives on Seizures incorporating networks, single neurons and both slow and fast activity' was presented on as a keynote talk at the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience (IICN).

3 Nov 2016

AMBER led project awarded over €4.4m in European funding programme

Trinity researchers at AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre, will lead an international project worth over €4.4 million under the European-funded ‘Future and Emerging Technologies - Open’ (FET Open) programme.

3 Nov 2016