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Trinity celebrates EU Researchers’ Night

Trinity celebrated EU Researchers’ Night with a number of events across campus last week. These included a Minerals In Action (MIA) event, a research showcase in Trinity’s Exam Hall, and the launch of an impact report on the Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) education and public engagement programme.

1 Oct 2026

Community|Environment|Research|Science

Trinity researcher to lead new European Research Council project focused on ancient microfossils

Dr Corentin Flament-Loron, from Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, has won an ERC Starting Grant, which will support his investigations into one of the biggest questions in the history of life: when did complex cells first emerge on Earth?

1 Oct 2026

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science

Your voice may reveal how fast and how well you’re aging

A new study shows that machine-learning clocks based on speech can estimate chronological age and may also offer a window into brain aging, biological aging, cognitive health, cumulative burden, and dementia.

30 Sep 2026

Health|Research|Science

New research shows how human impacts increase risk of emerging infectious disease outbreaks

Global fragmentation of ecosystems and changing patterns of rainfall have increased the risk of diseases spreading to humans from animals, mosquitoes and ticks, according to a new study involving a Trinity scientist.

24 Sep 2026

Environment|Health|Research|Science

New Trinity research suggests a simple pill could prevent sight loss in common form of diabetes-driven eye condition

Researchers at Trinity, in collaboration with Breye Therapeutics, have found that an oral medication (Danegaptide) can protect against vision-threatening damage in Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (NPDR), which is a leading cause of blindness in working-age adults.

24 Sep 2026

Health|Research|Science

Trinity mathematicians celebrate Venice success of unique film project DAU

Professor Samson Shatashvili, University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847), and Maria Shtilmark, Research Assistant in Trinity’s School of Mathematics, were both closely involved in the extraordinary long-running film project DAU, whose director Ilya Khrzhanovsky received the Silver Lion for Best Director at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.

22 Sep 2026

Awards and Funding|Culture|Science

Bumblebee DNA extracted from museum specimens points to severe genetic declines over time

DNA extracted from over 100 specimens in five museums, including the Natural History Museum, London, was used to study the history of the moss carder bumblebee, which is threatened with extinction in the UK.

18 Sep 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Neuroscience offers new insights into how our brain solves ‘the cocktail party problem’

Sara Carta and Prof. Giovanni Di Liberto from Trinity's School of Computer Science and Statistics write about the implications of their work that shows some people can briefly follow more than one conversation at once. This was first published by The Conversation.

18 Sep 2026

Research|Science|Society

Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan, reopens Trinity College Dublin Herbarium

Trinity’s Herbarium contains up to half a million preserved plant specimens, representing three centuries of Irish botanical research. Its transformation was supported through a €1.5 million investment from the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

17 Sep 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Scientists discover how to decode weather on faraway, deep-space worlds

Scientists from Trinity have developed a powerful way to unravel the changing weather patterns on distant worlds.

15 Sep 2026

Research|Science