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Trinity Walton Club celebrates 10 years of transforming STEM education in Ireland
Trinity Walton Club (TWC) has delivered STEM learning experiences to over 7,000 students in its first decade of operation. TWC launched its new impact report as club leaders, educators and alumni gathered to mark the milestone.
20 May 2025
Science|Students
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Professors Jennifer McElwain and Jonathan Coleman elected Fellows of the Royal Society
Prof. McElwain’s research on fossil plants has shaped our understanding of how the atmosphere has changed over millions of years, while Prof. Coleman developed a transformative technique for producing 2D nanomaterials like graphene from layered solids such as graphite.
20 May 2025
Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science
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Ancient ocean sediments link changes in currents to cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 million years ago
New research from an international group has for the first time shown a strong correlation between the two. Differences in sediment composition imply profound changes in the circulation of deep water currents occurred at this time in Earth's history.
16 May 2025
Environment|Research|Science
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Trinity Long Room Hub announces O’Mahony Music Research Fellowship
The new fellowship in music is dedicated to music and music-related research and will be awarded annually.
16 May 2025
Awards and Funding|Research
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Plastic manufacturing technologies jeopardise food safety and the environment
AMBER Centre researchers based in Trinity have discovered that the way many everyday plastics are manufactured builds unseen stress into the material—stress that later drives the release of tiny plastic particles into our food and the environment.
13 May 2025
Environment|Health|Research|Science|Sustainability
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The Climate Fiction Prize 2025: the five shortlisted books reviewed by our experts
Chris Morash, School of English, joins a panel of researchers to review the novels shortlisted for the 2025 Climate Fiction Prize.
13 May 2025
Culture|Environment|Research|Sustainability
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In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
Leo XIV was a choice few saw coming, and is a figure of humility, steadiness and introspective strength, writes Bronagh Ann McShane in an opinion article first published by The Irish Times.
12 May 2025
Research|Society
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Trinity Long Room Hub’s ‘Behind the Headlines’ series turns 10
10 years of public engagement on the pressing issues of our time will be celebrated this week by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
12 May 2025
Culture|Research|Society
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Fat-rich fluid fuels immune failure in ovarian cancer
New research led by Irish scientists has uncovered how lipid-rich fluid in the abdomen, known as ascites, plays a central role in weakening the body’s immune response in advanced ovarian cancer.
9 May 2025
Health|Research|Science
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Gustav Parker Hibbett wins 2025 Pollard International Poetry Prize
Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity.
8 May 2025
Awards and Funding|Culture