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Marine scientists aim to restore native flat oyster reefs around the coast

Researchers from Trinity are collaborating on a new €1.5 million all-island project, funded by the Marine Institute, to restore native flat oyster reefs and enhance coastal resilience.

24 Oct 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Study reveals how a stubborn lung infection evolves inside patients over years

Researchers wanted to know what allows the infection to hang on or come back, and whether it develops new tricks or resistances while living inside the lungs.

23 Oct 2025

Health|Research

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

Ireland’s IT skills supply insufficient to meet future demand predictions

A new report co-authored by Trinity Business School has found that Ireland faces a considerable challenge to meet the future skills needs of its indigenous IT sector.

23 Oct 2025

Business|Research

Irish presidency has evolved significantly in recent years

Once considered largely ceremonial and “above politics,” the presidency has evolved significantly in recent years, writes Gail McElroy, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy in a piece for The Conversation.

22 Oct 2025

Research|Society

No benefit of ketamine for patients hospitalised with depression, clinical trial reports

Researchers from Trinity College, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, investigate use of twice-weekly ketamine infusions as an add-on treatment for inpatients with serious depression

22 Oct 2025

Health|Research

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

Trinity team poses deep-space questions of mysterious dark energy

Astrophysicists are leading a project (TiDES) that will improve our understanding of the mysterious “dark energy” that comprises roughly two-thirds of the Universe and is responsible for its accelerating expansion. Their project kicks off as the revolutionary 4MOST facility captures its first light.

21 Oct 2025

Research|Science

What goes up must come down – scientists unearth “universal thermal performance curve” that shackles evolution

This “UTPC" seemingly applies to all species and dictates their responses to temperature change. It essentially “shackles evolution” as no species seem to have broken free from the constraints it imposes on how temperature affects performance.

21 Oct 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity’s Rosie Lavan co-edits definitive collection of Seamus Heaney’s poetry

The long-awaited publication of the definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry co-edited by Dr Rosie Lavan, School of English, was celebrated at an event in Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy.

20 Oct 2025

Culture|Research