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Trinity trio elected Members of the Royal Irish Academy

Profs. Orla Sheils, Jane Farrar and Holger Claussen have been elected as new Members of the Royal Irish Academy for their exceptional contribution to the sciences.

26 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

2025 Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Awards

The awards recognise outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching across the disciplines of Economics, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology.

26 May 2025

Research|Society

Geography PhD candidate wins 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award

Kevin O’Leary, a second-year PhD candidate in Geography in the School of Natural Sciences, is the co-winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award – a science media competition that commemorates the legacy of science journalist and author Mary Mulvihill (1959–2015).

23 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Students

In Camera Rule Report published by Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan

The report was authored by social policy experts in Trinity's School of Social Work and Social Policy and legal experts in University College Cork.

22 May 2025

Research|Society

Trust in scientists in Ireland lower in younger generation

Trust in scientists in Ireland is ahead of global averages, but lower among younger people, according to new research from the School of Education.

22 May 2025

Research|Science|Society

Breakthrough in childhood brain cancer research reveals possible new target for therapies

An international group of scientists has identified a key molecular process that drives a deadly form of childhood brain cancer, potentially offering a much-needed, new therapeutic target.

21 May 2025

Health|Research|Science

Book of Leinster on display in Long Room following conservation project

Written in Old and Middle Irish in the 12th century, the Book of Leinster, or Leabhar Laighean, is an important source of Irish literature and history from the medieval period.

21 May 2025

Arts|Culture|Research

Professor Patrick Geoghegan announced as new Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub

Professor Patrick Geoghegan, School of Histories and Humanities, will succeed Professor Eve Patten whose term as Director ends in June.

21 May 2025

Arts|Culture|Research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winners of Christy Nolan inspired creativity competition announced

The creative competition was held to honour the legacy of Irish author, Christy Nolan, and to mark the 25th Anniversary of Trinity disAbility Service.

8 May 2025

Community|Culture|Research

Trinity projects awarded Research Ireland ‘New Foundations’ funding

Seven Trinity research projects have received funding from Research Ireland under its New Foundations programme. 

8 May 2025

Research|Society