College News - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity is a Living Lab with 79% less observed smoking

Healthy Trinity Tobacco Group worked with staff and students to support the smoke-free campus policy. A review of the college’s vaping policy is planned for the coming months.

25 Apr 2023

Health|Research|Sustainability

Information for New Scholars 2023

Congratulations to those of you who have been elected to Scholarship.

21 Apr 2023

Community|Students

Trinity Week 2023

Trinity Week starts at 10am on Trinity Monday, 24 April, when Trinity College Dublin celebrates the announcement of new Honorary Fellows, Fellows and Scholars of the College.

21 Apr 2023

Community

‘Totalitarianism and the Humanities’ focus of Trinity Long Room Hub’s Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture 2023

“What do oppressive political cultures find so upsetting about books and reading?” asked Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, as she delivered the 2023 Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture on the subject of ‘Totalitarianism and the Humanities’ to a packed audience in Trinity’s Thomas Davis Theatre.

21 Apr 2023

Arts|Society

Trinity’s Quantum Play event shines light on crucial role of emerging quantum tech

Trinity’s School of Physics celebrated World Quantum Day by opening its doors and inviting curious minds to a showcase of five exciting quantum versions of games, developed by Trinity’s very own Quantum Science and Technology MSc students.

20 Apr 2023

Innovation|Research|Science|Students

Trinity researchers sweep Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Engineering Society awards

Three Biomedical Engineering School of Engineering members have received prestigious awards at the TERMIS-EU 2023 meeting dedicated to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

11 Apr 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

First National Equality Charter Symposium

The First National Equality Charter Symposium ‘Aiming Higher, Moving Forward Together’ will be hosted in Trinity College Dublin on 19 April.

5 Apr 2023

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