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Shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize announced
The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2024 has been announced today, 28th February 2024 by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre.
5 Mar 2024
Awards and Funding
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Bryan Murray and Deirdre Kinahan win inaugural Pratchett Prize
The Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation has awarded the actor and playwright the inaugural Pratchett Prize for challenging the stigma of Alzheimer’s Disease in their 2023 play 'An Old Song, Half Forgotten'.
4 Mar 2024
Community|Culture|Research|Science
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Creative Brain Week returns for 2024
Now in its third year, the ground-breaking event will explore the themes of Attention, Connection and Love, through a series of public events, activities and exhibitions in the arts and neuroscience.
4 Mar 2024
Arts|Health|Research|Science|Society
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Trinity researchers to develop new tools to predict future car types in Ireland
New forecasting tools to predict the next generation of private vehicle fleets in Ireland will be developed by a research project being undertaken by a team of economists and civil engineers.
29 Feb 2024
Science|Society|Sustainability
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Trinity duo win SFI Discover Programme funding to inspire STEM public engagement
Two researchers from Trinity – Dr John O’Donoghue and Cian McLoughlin – have won Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme funding to lead projects that will encourage a deeper understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
28 Feb 2024
Awards and Funding|Research|Science|Society
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Trinity team discovers underlying cause of “brain fog” linked with Long COVID
Today, a team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro announced a major discovery that has profound importance for our understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline seen in some patients with Long COVID.
22 Feb 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Alpaca wins Learnovate and Amazon Web Services accelerator programme
The EdTech Accelerator Programme for learning technology start-ups ran from December 5, 2023 to February 20, 2024 with ten companies involved.
21 Feb 2024
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research
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Secret, undeclared pesticide ingredients may pose a risk to people, pollinators and the environment
Scientists are calling for greater transparency in the full ingredient list of pesticides, arguing that farmers and consumers deserve to know exactly what is in them.
21 Feb 2024
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Researchers win €5.3 million Wellcome Trust award to tackle fatal bloodstream infections
This female-led project brings together experts from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, APC Microbiome Ireland, a world leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), the University of Exeter and the University of Bristol.
20 Feb 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science
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Weston Foundation Scholarship to fund MSc in Responsible Business & Sustainability
Applications have opened for the new Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation Scholarship, which aims to support young people from under-represented socio-economic backgrounds in taking on Trinity Business School’s newly launched MSc in Responsible Business & Sustainability.
19 Feb 2024
Awards and Funding|Business|Students
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Online exhibition showcases forgotten contribution of crafts people to built heritage
A new digital exhibition from the CRAFTVALUE research project showcases the painstaking craft practices of the stonemasons, plasterers, joiners and carvers who constructed our beautiful 18th-century buildings.
16 Feb 2024
Culture|Research
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Care leavers ten years on — first phase of landmark study commences
Minister Roderic O’Gorman met with the research team leading a major new study exploring the experiences of young adults who have left the Irish care system.
15 Feb 2024
Research|Society
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Scientists develop colour-changing dyes that light up cellular activity
This work, which enables "time travel" within cells, may revolutionise bio-sensing and imaging approaches. The dyes promise to have multiple medical applications, as well as uses beyond chemistry and biology.
15 Feb 2024
Health|Innovation|Research|Science
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New patient safety research network announced
A new patient safety research network led by Samuel Cromie, Assistant Professor, Psychology, has been announced by the Health Research Board and the Health Service Executive.
15 Feb 2024
Health|Research|Society
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New era dawns for the retrofitted Rubrics
The beautiful red-brick building, built between 1699 and 1705, will now be home to new staff while they ‘find their feet’ in Dublin, as well as provide short-term accommodation for visiting scholars, student accommodation and a new reading room
15 Feb 2024
Community|Sustainability
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Lecture series on the history and culture of Europe’s eastern regions
A free weekly public lecture series commencing this month aims to cast a spotlight on parts of our continent which are less familiar to Irish audiences.
14 Feb 2024
Culture|Research
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Trinity researchers secure EPA funding to support sustainability and societal transformation projects
Four researchers from Trinity – Dr Patrick Morrissey, Dr Paul Liston, Professor Margaret Jackson and Professor Pete Akers – have won funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pursue new research projects.
14 Feb 2024
Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Society|Sustainability
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Westport food security project wins community climate action collaboration
A Westport climate action project that will cultivate mini-forests and edible landscapes to enhance food security has been announced as the national winner of a community climate justice project call out by Trinity College Dublin.
14 Feb 2024
Business|Community|Environment|Sustainability
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Trinity welcomes Prof. John D. Kelleher as Chair of Computer Science and Director of ADAPT
The combined position will see Prof. Kelleher taking responsibility for further enhancing Trinity’s leadership in the fundamentally important ICT area of AI and providing long-term strategic leadership and vision for the ADAPT Centre to achieve and sustain research excellence.
14 Feb 2024
Research|Science
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The Trinity MBA surges 21 places in the FT 2024 Global Ranking
Trinity Business School’s Full-Time MBA Programme has risen 21 places in this year’s Global MBA Ranking, published today by the Financial Times, placing 66th globally.
12 Feb 2024
Business
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Referendums on family and care: No place like home?
This week Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute hosted a "Behind the Headlines" expert panel on the upcoming referendum proposals and the meanings of ‘home’ in contemporary Ireland.
12 Feb 2024
Culture|Research|Society
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€4.88m SFI research award for leading cell therapy scientist
Professor Sakis Mantalaris, a leading figure in cell therapy research, has been awarded €4.88 million as part of the prestigious Science Foundation Ireland Research Professorship Programme.
7 Feb 2024
Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science
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“It might sound like science fiction fantasy, but AI urbanism is not far away”
An international group of researchers is warning against the creation of AI-led autonomous cities, outlining fears that diverse AIs may eventually perform social and managerial functions in an unsupervised manner without human input.
6 Feb 2024
Culture|Research|Society|Sustainability
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New lab allows scientists to test impacts of climate change in precisely controlled infrastructure
Scientists in Ireland are now able to study the impacts of past, current and future climate change in precisely controlled climatic and atmospheric conditions.
6 Feb 2024
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Mindset change needed to fight biodiversity loss
If our loved ones were at risk of collapse, we’d do anything to help them recover. We need to do the same for the planet, writes Prof. Jane Stout in The Irish Times
6 Feb 2024
Community|Sustainability
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Eight students graduate from Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities
The graduates - James Conlan, Jodie Daly, Oscar Daly, Conor Dunne, Liam Foley, Jack McFadden, Cliodhna O’Rourke and Diarmuid Owens - completed 18 modules over two years of full-time study.
1 Feb 2024
Community|Students
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Instapoetry is successful and there’s nothing wrong with that
Instagram poetry should be taken more seriously by the establishment, writes Rafael Mendes Silva, PhD candidate at the School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies in this piece for The Conversation.
1 Feb 2024
Culture|Research
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Medieval chants bring 15th century St Brigid’s Day celebrations back to life
Sacred chants found in precious medieval manuscripts are shedding fresh light on the cult of St Brigid and how her feast day was celebrated in 15th century Ireland.
1 Feb 2024
Culture|Research
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Ever wondered what could have been?
A new lecture series hosted by the Department of Philosophy aims to help the public channel their inner philosopher.
31 Jan 2024
Research|Society
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Hope for ‘the most common form of dementia that no-one has heard of’
Trinity research team awarded €2.49m by the Health Research Board to investigate Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) which accounts for 20% of the nearly 65,000 people with dementia in Ireland, but fewer than 5% of those affected receive a formal diagnosis.
29 Jan 2024
Health|Research|Society