Awards and Funding - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Researchers join National Challenge Fund to help Ireland prepare for green transition and digital transformation

Six researchers from Trinity – who make up four teams – are among those taking part in the latest round of the National Challenge Fund. While pursuing different projects, they share the goal of helping Ireland prepare for its green transition and digital transformation.

11 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Sustainability

Student start-up Hebe Adventures wins LaunchBox contest

This year, ten teams collectively representing seven Trinity schools were selected to partake in the LaunchBox programme, which is the oldest of its kind in Ireland, and which is currently seeking a new sponsor.

7 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students

Dr Thomas Laurent wins prestigious Lero Prize for work in software testing

Dr Laurent, from the School of Computer Science and Statistics, was recently awarded a Lero Director’s Prize for PhD / Post-Doctoral Researcher Contribution at the annual summit of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Software.

6 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Astrophysicist wins European Research Council award to assess how life may emerge on other planets

Dr Luca Matrà has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant valued at €1.5 million. He will use the funds to support a five-year research project aimed at understanding how exoplanets and exocomets can affect the presence of volatile molecules that could provide the potential building blocks of life on other Earth-like planets.

5 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity wins prestigious Athena Swan Silver Awards

Trinity College Dublin has won a silver institutional Athena Swan award for advancing gender equality. Two of its schools (Natural Sciences and Chemistry) have also received silver awards.

30 Aug 2023

Awards and Funding

Professor Rose Anne Kenny appointed first ever female Regius Professor of Physic (1637) at Trinity

An event to mark Professor Kenny’s appointment also celebrated the School of Medicine’s female ‘full professors’

31 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Academy of the Near Future and Cellnex Foundation partner to upskill students on smart technologies and digital connectivity

The partnership, which will run for three years, will develop young people’s understanding of smart technologies and digital connectivity in primary schools across Dublin and nationwide.

27 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Society|Students

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer elected Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Ohlmeyer, from Trinity’s School of Histories and Humanities, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, which today welcomed a new group of leading international humanities and social sciences researchers to its Fellowship for 2023.

21 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Culture

Trinity student wins Inclusivity Partnership Award

This week, Children’s Books Ireland and the School of English announced the recipient of the 2023 Inclusivity Partnership Award. The partnership enables researchers to work closely with experts in the area of children’s books to investigate key issues in contemporary publishing for young readers. The recipient, Linde Vergeylen, is a student from the M.Phil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity. Under the supervision of Dr Pádraic Whyte, she will lead an investigation into the representation of disabilities in Young Adult verse novels.

20 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Culture|Students

Hubs offering electric cars, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes to test potential of shared e-mobility to decarbonise transport

Researchers from Trinity, together with collaborators from the Atlantic Technological University (ATU), ESB and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, will lead a €1.35 million shared electric mobility project.

19 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research

Dr Tamara Boto wins Wellcome Career Development Award 2023

Assistant Professor in Physiology, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Dr Tamara Boto studies how features of importance, or salience, are processed in the brain, and how they affect memories, in health and disease.

19 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Prof Christine Casey wins prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

Professor Casey, School of Histories and Humanities, has won a European Research Council Advanced grant valued at €2.5 million to explore collective achievement in classical architecture of Ireland & Britain.

13 Jul 2023

Arts|Awards and Funding|Culture|Research

Green Tech Skillnet provides 30% discount on selected Trinity green courses

Trinity is pleased to announce that Green Tech Skillnet, an organisation dedicated to fostering skills and expertise in the field of green technology, will provide a 30% discount for learners pursuing several of Trinity's green diplomas and micro-credential courses.

7 Jul 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Students|Sustainability

National Recognition for Printing House Square

Printing House Square in Trinity College Dublin was announced as the winner of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland's Award for the Learning Environments category last week. This a national award recognising a broad range of categories in the field of architecture in Ireland.

30 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding

Trinity placed 81st in world in QS University Rankings

Trinity’s Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: "We need proper sustained long-term investment in people and infrastructure to ensure the conditions exist for our students and staff to excel. Investment such as this in higher education benefits our students, our society, and Ireland’s standing in the world.”

27 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Community|Research

Oral vaccine programme secures non-dilutive funding

Trinity’s Professor Ed Lavelle identified vaccine adjuvants that will be used as part of the research.

26 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science

BioNTech founders among recipients of Trinity honorary degrees

Philanthropist Dr Beate Schuler and scientist Joan Steitz - known for her pioneering work on RNA (ribonucleic acid) - also received Trinity’s highest honour from Trinity’s Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre.

16 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science

Orla Sheils becomes Doctor in Science, joins WHO Scientific Council

Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: "These honours are richly deserved. In her busy role as Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Trinity, Orla Sheils is a pivotal force in the University, while her research has enhanced Trinity's reputation as an international leader in cancer research.

16 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity Researchers among 47 teams awarded National Challenge funding

Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, has today (12 June) welcomed 47 new teams to compete in the €65 million fund to work on solutions to major environmental and societal issues.

12 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Five Trinity researchers receive Fulbright awards for 2023/24

The Fulbright bilateral exchange programme is known for selecting outstanding candidates from Ireland to study and work with US institutions across all disciplines ranging from health, science, technology and business to the arts and culture.

9 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Outstanding contributions to research honoured in Research Excellence Awards

The recipients of Trinity’s 2023 Research Excellence Awards were honoured at a ceremony hosted by the Dean of Research this week.

1 Jun 2023

Awards and Funding|Research

Trinity researchers recognised in latest SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme Awards

Twelve Trinity projects have received funding this week from Science Foundation Ireland across a range of research disciplines.

31 May 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

New HRB awards for School of Medicine researchers to address health challenges

The Definitive Intervention and Feasibility Awards (DIFA) 2023 have been announced today for four clinical researchers to investigate significant challenges in patient care and treatment.

31 May 2023

Awards and Funding|Health

Dr Pablo Gracia secures ERC Consolidator Grant

Dr Pablo Gracia, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, has secured a prestigious European Research Council Consolidator Grant to explore links between digital use and social inequalities in adolescents’ well-being.

10 May 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

Professor Ed Lavelle wins Irish Society for Immunology Annual Award

Professor Lavelle, from Trinity’s School of Biochemistry and Immunology, has been recognised for his significant contribution to Irish immunology research and education.

9 May 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Victoria Adukwei Bulley wins Pollard International Poetry Prize

Administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English the prize is awarded to an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language.

3 May 2023

Awards and Funding|Culture

mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr Katalin Karikó receives 2023 Dawson prize in Genetics

Dr Katalin Karikó, whose work was central to the development of the mRNA based COVID-19 vaccines used all over the world, received the 2023 Dawson prize in Genetics in Trinity.

25 Apr 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity celebrates new Scholars and Fellows

In total, 62 new Scholars, 37 new Fellows, seven new Professorial Fellows and two Honorary Fellows were announced across a range of disciplines.

24 Apr 2023

Awards and Funding|Students

Medical device and digital health startups pitch for their places on Medtech Innovator’s Showcase and Accelerator programme

The programme supports the development of the most promising innovations in the field. Partners, Trinity College Dublin and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, play host to the event.

24 Apr 2023

Awards and Funding|Business|Health|Innovation

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