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Trinity researchers secure Research Ireland Pathway awards

Four Trinity researchers have secured awards worth a combined total of €2.57 million under Research Ireland’s Pathway funding programme.

25 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture|Health|Research|Science

Custodian of Romanian Crown visits Trinity

Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the Romanian Crown, and His Royal Highness Prince Radu came to Trinity today as part of their visit to Ireland.

24 Jun 2025

Conference explores trauma, the workforce and the workplace

Over 200 delegates were in attendance, with representation from over 20 countries across the world for the annual ENTER Mental Health Conference hosted this year by the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

24 Jun 2025

Health|Research|Society

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, the creator of Sfera con Sfera, has died

Catherine Giltrap, Curator and Head of the University Art Collections expressed her heartfelt sympathy to Pomodoro’s colleagues and family, and plans to continue with Trinity's preparations to commemorate 100 years since his birth in 2026.

23 Jun 2025

Arts|Community|Society

A genomic wormhole – rapidly reorganised genomes likely helped species switch from the sea to the land

A comparative study shows that marine worms shattered their genome and rebuilt it in a radically different form when they first emerged from the sea 200 million years ago

23 Jun 2025

Research|Science

Trinity researchers receive €500,000 to develop AI platform to help teachers

The €500,000 funding was granted under Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund, which supports third-level researchers to translate their research into innovative and commercially viable products, services and companies.

23 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Science

Three new Trinity projects to address climate challenges

Dr John Kennedy, Prof. Wolfgang Schmitt, and Matthew Chersich have secured Environmental Protection Agency funding to support related research.

19 Jun 2025

Trinity climbs to 75th place in 2026 QS World University Rankings

Trinity’s Provost and President Dr Linda Doyle said: “The rankings news encourages us to be even bolder in our ambition for Trinity and, indeed, for Ireland - an ambition that should be championed and defended regardless of the rankings. "

19 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Community|Research

Scientists solve 30-year micronutrient mystery, opening door to new medical research

The discovery will help scientists now explore the important role of “queuosine”, a microscopic molecule first discovered in the 1970s, in cancer and human health.

18 Jun 2025

Health|Research|Science

New video series teaches long-term impacts of political conflict

The Centre for Economics, Policy and History has collaborated on a new video series for students showing how data can help us understand the long-term impacts of political conflict.

18 Jun 2025

Research|Society

Exploring Kindness at Creative Brain Week 2025

Local and international academic and research experts—alongside individuals with lived experience—came together to explore the powerful intersection of brain science and creativity, and the potential benefits it can bring to humanity

17 Jun 2025

Irish language champion Linda Ervine receives Trinity honorary degree

Dermot Smurfit, renowned osteoporosis expert Moira O’Brien, and Sir Donnell Deeny also all received Trinity’s highest honour from Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre.

13 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Business|Community|Society

More supports needed for children and young adults experiencing domestic violence and abuse

The main consideration of the research was to elevate and centre children’s voices, to clearly show that they have distinct needs that must be addressed separately from adult survivors.

12 Jun 2025

Health|Society

Trinity PhD candidate wins 2025 EU 3-Minute Thesis competition

With her presentation, called "Triggering Healing: Materials that outsmart Brain Cancer", Almudena had emerged victorious from the final of Trinity's internal 3MT competition, which took place in March.

12 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Students

Centre for Forced Migration Studies hosts Wole Soyinka Lecture

Trinity's Centre for Forced Migration Studies recently hosted the 27th Wole Soyinka Lecture, titled "Building Resilient, Cohesive Communities and the Challenges of Global Migration".

10 Jun 2025

Community|Society

Silicate clouds discovered in atmosphere of distant exoplanet

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant “exoplanets” form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in extraordinary detail.

10 Jun 2025

Research|Science

Trinity chefs go hyperlocal, serving herbs grown on campus

Trinity Catering chefs will cook meals from ingredients grown in a newly installed kitchen garden, called Trinity Beo, on the roof of Trinity Business School. The garden has hardier plants like rosemary, thyme, mint and nasturtium, along with fruits like strawberries, apples and pears.

9 Jun 2025

Sustainability

Eavan Boland Award celebrates creativity, connection & cross-border exchange in poetry

The award is open to submissions from early-career poets based in the UK and mid-career poets based in Ireland.

6 Jun 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture|Research

From That Small Island TV series features Trinity researchers and treasures

A host of Trinity researchers will feature in a new four-part documentary series on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player which traces 8,000 years of Irish history, with the first episode airing on Sunday, June 8th.

5 Jun 2025

Culture|Research|Science|Society

Heatwaves greatly influence parasite burden; likely spread of disease

New research from scientists at Trinity College Dublin strongly implies that heatwaves have a major influence on the spread of many diseases – and that many existing predictive models have overlooked this complexity.

4 Jun 2025

Environment|Health|Research|Science|Sustainability

Irish family law system causes ‘secondary victimisation’

The report was authored by social scientists from the School of Social Work and Social Policy and legal experts from University College Cork.

4 Jun 2025

Research|Society

Immunotherapy before surgery improves lung cancer survival in global clinical trial

Study published in New England Journal of Medicine shows that the use of immunotherapy with chemotherapy before lung cancer surgery reduces the risk of cancer returning and improves long term survival for patients.

4 Jun 2025

Health|Research

Conference celebrates 50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s collection North

The 50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection 'North' will be marked at a conference hosted by the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Trinity’s School of English.

3 Jun 2025

Arts|Culture|Research

Pioneering Sea-Scan project aims to detect and classify “dark vessels” in Irish waters

Researchers from Trinity are developing a system that uses undersea telecommunications cables for advanced maritime surveillance, with the aim of enhancing Ireland’s ability to detect and classify vessels operating without active transponders.

30 May 2025

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity Innovation and Enterprise collaborates on South African region project

Trinity is one of three European universities partnering on the UNIICo-create project, which is tackling graduate unemployment in the Southern African Development Community region.

30 May 2025

Community|Innovation

IrelandQCI launches mobile quantum engagement trailer

The innovative mobile engagement unit, designed to bring quantum technologies to life for the Irish public, was launched in Trinity's Front Square by IrelandQCI with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

29 May 2025

Research|Science|Society

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