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Four exceptional individuals receive honorary degrees at Trinity

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre CEO Noeline Blackwell, artist Dorothy Cross, theologian David Ford and the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian newspaper Alan Rusbridger were conferred today with honorary degrees of the University of Dublin at Trinity College Dublin.

2 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Culture|Society|Students

Trinity project among 8 announced in Government’s Shared Island initiative

A project focusing on cultural engagement led by Dr Steven Hadley, School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin, has been named today in the announcement of the Shared Island strand of the Irish Research Council’s New Foundations programme.

1 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding

Three Trinity Schools achieve Athena SWAN Bronze Awards

Trinity College Dublin's School of English, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies and School of Medicine have recently been conferred with Athena SWAN Bronze awards at an award ceremony in Atlantic Technological University in Mayo.

30 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding

Trinity trio win Royal Society University Research Fellowships

Three researchers – Drs Lara McManus, Mark Mitchison and Matthew Walters – have won highly competitive Royal Society University Research Fellowships that will help them build their research careers at Trinity.

25 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Research

School of Medicine celebrates six HRB Knowledge Transfer Awards

The School scooped six awards across a range of disciplines in the latest round of funding from the Health Research Board (HRB).

24 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Trinity Sport Scholars celebrated at Dining Hall Ceremony

Linda Doyle, Provost, Trinity College Dublin said: “It is impressive to see how the students balance their commitment to sport with their commitment to their studies"

22 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Students

Three Trinity researchers win prestigious European Research Council Starting Grants

Dr Kenneth Silver, Dr Colm Delaney and Dr Elaine Corbett were among just seven researchers in Ireland to receive the coveted awards worth up to €5 million from the ERC.

22 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Business|Research|Science

Orla Hardiman named 2022 SFI Researcher of the Year

Trinity researchers won three of nine awards at the 2022 SFI Summit event to celebrate the best of Irish research.

22 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland team awarded prestigious Ellis Prize

The Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) has awarded the prestigious Ellis Prize to the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Considered the ‘Oscar’ for the recordkeeping sector, the award has been given for only the tenth time in 50 years.

21 Nov 2022

Arts|Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal recipients announced

The 2023 Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities has been awarded to Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA and the 2023 Academy Gold Medal in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences has been awarded to Jonathan Coleman MRIA.

18 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding

New project will equip police with advanced technologies to combat disinformation linked to crime

VIGILANT is a €4 million Horizon Europe project aimed at curbing the spread of disinformation and combating its negative effects such as promoting hate speech, human trafficking, and bogus medical cures.

16 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Incredible difference-making researchers and inventors honoured at Trinity Innovation Awards

Trinity’s leading researchers and inventors have been recognised for their innovative research and entrepreneurship at the 2022 Trinity Innovation Awards. Orla Hardiman, Professor of Neurology, received the headline Provost Innovation Award, while Werner Blau, Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics, won the Lifetime Achievement Award.

8 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Trinity physicist to lead €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project

Professor Mark Mitchison has won an EU Quantum Technologies Flagship research grant worth €2.9 million. He will lead a team of researchers seeking to understand nature’s timekeeping limitations and querying whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.

1 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

ProMotion Rewards secures €725,000 pre-seed investment

Pharmacy graduates and former Tangent LaunchBox winners (2020), Bidemi Afolabi and Lauren O’Reilly created ProMotion Rewards to help brands understand consumer behaviours.

24 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students

Trinity College Dublin honours 10 notable alumni with awards

The gala dinner on campus was an opportunity for Trinity staff, students, alumni, and friends to reflect on the tremendous achievements of the wider Trinity community.

21 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding

Trinity benefits from legacy of Elan founder Dr Don Panoz

Dr Panoz died in September 2018, aged 83, leaving part of his estate to Trinity. This followed his funding in 1994 of the Panoz Institute, a purpose-built home for the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences on campus.

18 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Health

2022 Burkitt Medal awarded to Dr Eileen O’Reilly

Established in 2013, the prestigious Burkitt Medal recognises an individual who demonstrates extraordinary achievement and advancement in the field of cancer internationally.

17 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Eleven Trinity researchers to receive Irish Research Council Laureate Awards

Eleven researchers from Trinity College Dublin were among the 48 successful applicants of the Irish Research Council (IRC) Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards announced today. The investment of almost €24 million in ‘curiosity-driven’ frontier research, will fund 48 ground-breaking research projects under the Irish Research Council’s Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards Programme.

10 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Research

Inaugural Beckett Creative Fellows announced

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is delighted to announce that it will be hosting Niamh Campbell and Nathan O’Donnell as the inaugural Beckett Creative Fellows this coming academic year, 2022-23.

22 Sep 2022

Arts|Awards and Funding|Research

Trinity researchers receive Silver Eco and Ageing Well International Award

Trinity researchers win EU award recognising the Horizon 2020 ‘SEURO’ Project’s research in the field of ageing well and the silver economy

15 Sep 2022

Awards and Funding|Health

New research project to lay foundations for next generation of Old and Middle English scholarship

A new interdisciplinary project, which will facilitate the next generation of research in Old and Middle English, has received funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) under the COALESCE programme.

15 Sep 2022

Arts|Awards and Funding|Science

Trinity researchers lead €3.2 million project targeted at degenerative retinal diseases

The project (EYE-D) will target diseases that can result in severe loss of vision and are estimated to affect 224,000 people in Ireland, and 40 million people worldwide.

5 Sep 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Eleven Trinity researchers awarded €4 million to tackle global health challenges

The newly announced Investigator-Led Projects for Health (ILP) 2022 from the Health Research Board (HRB) will drive advancements in treatments and therapies across a broad range of human health and disease including neurodegenerative disease, respiratory disease, bloodstream infection, arthritis, cancer, and depression.

30 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Trinity researchers secure eight SFI-IRC Pathway awards

Researchers applying from Trinity have secured eight Science Foundation Ireland – Irish Research Council (SFI-IRC) Pathway awards worth a combined total of around €4.4 million.

29 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Research

Trinity spinout ETU receives strategic growth investment

ETU, Trinity College Dublin and SFI ADAPT Centre spinout, secures significant investment that will support accelerated growth for the learning technology leader.

25 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Business

Engineering students win global additive manufacturing competition

Brothers Tadhg-Lorcan and Eoin H. Oude Essink won the nTopology Responsible Part Challenge 2022 while representing Trinity College Dublin and TU Dublin in the competitive international event.

17 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Students

Equine MediRecord secures eight-figure US private equity investment

Equine Technology company Equine MediRecord, initially nurtured by Tangent's student accelerator, LaunchBox, has closed an investment for an undisclosed eight-figure amount, thought to be just over €10 million.

4 Aug 2022

Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students

HRB Emerging Investigator Awards for three Trinity academic researchers

Trinity has won three of nine new Emerging Investigator Awards for Health (EIA) 2022 from the Health Research Board (HRB). All three awardees are from the School of Medicine at Trinity.

28 Jul 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

CHARM-EU secures €12.8m funding to expand and implement its innovative vision

The new CHARM-EU proposal has won a grant of €12.8 million in the 2022 Erasmus+ European Universities Call. Alongside the three new partners joining the Alliance, CHARM-EU will continue to deepen, intensify and expand the effectiveness of the existing cooperation to advance the higher education transformation process towards full ‘European Universities’ and increase its impact.

27 Jul 2022

Awards and Funding|Research