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Ferdia Lennon awarded 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

The €10,000 Rooney Prize, administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Creative Writing in the School of English, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 years of age.

10 Nov 2025

Arts|Awards and Funding|Culture

€10 million ERC grant to investigate coercive interrogation practices awarded to Trinity researcher and colleagues

An international, interdisciplinary team of researchers, including Trinity’s Shane O'Mara and colleagues from Dublin City University, De Montfort University and Tilburg University, has secured a €10 million European Research Council grant to investigate coercive and abusive interrogation practices.

6 Nov 2025

Awards and Funding|Research

New research project will integrate agentic AI in mobile and wireless communication systems

The NAIRA project (Native AI for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Radio Access Networks) is a pioneering initiative that envisions a new generation of intelligent, energy-aware networks capable of learning, adapting, and optimising themselves in real time.

29 Oct 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

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

Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Students

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

Two Trinity inventions feature in TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2025 list

Two Trinity-nurtured inventions with their roots in the School of Engineering – an AI sensor and data centre cooling tech – have made TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2025 list.

22 Oct 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

TILDA Connecting Generations Student Awards 2025

The awards event brought together students, staff, and guests from across Trinity’s schools and disciplines to explore the theme of ageing and connection through writing, film, and art.

16 Oct 2025

Professor Karen Wiltshire wins 2025 A.G. Huntsman Medal

Prof. Wiltshire, a marine ecologist and climate scientist from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, was honoured for her innovative and interdisciplinary research in climate science, and for her significant contribution to international organisations, which has built capacity and brought new voices into the marine sciences.

16 Oct 2025

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity welcomes recipients of 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

Ten Trinity research proposals secured funding in the 2024 call and, with some scheduled to begin in the coming months, Trinity now warmly welcomes all winners.

1 Oct 2025

Awards and Funding|Research

Trinity team to improve electric vehicle batteries after winning National Challenge Fund prize

A team from Trinity’s School of Engineering has won a prize in the National Challenge Fund competition, which was established under the Government of Ireland’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).

17 Sep 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity spin-out ProVerum secures $80 million in funding to accelerate commercialisation of innovative medical device

The largest investor funding round ever raised by a company to have spun out from an Irish university will help develop a device that reshapes enlarged prostates and relieves symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

9 Sep 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Geneticist Dr Lara Cassidy secures ERC Starting Grant to bring a millennium of hidden human history to life

Dr Cassidy’s success makes her the eighth researcher in Trinity’s Department of Genetics (School of Genetics and Microbiology) to secure a prestigious ERC award.

4 Sep 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Distinguished Investigator Award 2025 for Prof. Mark Cunningham

The award from Neuroscience Ireland recognises an outstanding long-standing member of the neuroscience community of Ireland demonstrating international standing in academic and intellectual achievement.

28 Aug 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research

From wardrobes to water – exhibition aims to turn the tide on climate apathy

A new exhibition by artist and World Champion Freediver Nina McGowan opens to the public today in Wexford County Hall. It is a key feature of the House on the Beach Creative Climate Action project, which involved collaboration with Trinity researchers and professional staff.

15 Aug 2025

Arts|Awards and Funding|Environment|Sustainability

North-South team to establish Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland

Researchers from Trinity and Queen's University Belfast have secured funding of approximately €3.7 million to establish a Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland.

11 Aug 2025

Arts|Awards and Funding|Research|Society

HRB invests a further €1 million into collaborative dementia network

This recently awarded funding will strengthen dementia research and improve care and quality of life for patients.

31 Jul 2025

Trinity alumni receive Fulbright awards for 2025-26

Awardees will research, innovate and collaborate across a diverse range of fields including multimedia arts, philosophy, medicine, agriculture, education, art history, AI technology in medicine, AI technology in education, visual arts, and health.

25 Jul 2025

Awards and Funding|Students

ERC funds two research projects exploring potential of AI in conflict forecasting and language description and preservation

Thomas Chadefaux, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, and Timotheus Bodt, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, will explore the potential of AI to address challenges in conflict forecasting and language description and preservation.

14 Jul 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture|Research

Trinity welcomes Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as Old Library Benefactor

A celebratory event was held to recognise the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as a new benefactor of the Old Library Redevelopment Project.

3 Jul 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture

TSJCI receives prestigious Comprehensive Cancer Centre status

The Trinity St James's Cancer Institute's new designation - the first Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Ireland - places TSJCI at the forefront of cancer care in Ireland alongside other leading cancer centres in Europe.

26 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Health|Research|Society