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Three Trinity researchers win prestigious European Research Council Starting Grants
Dr Kenneth Silver, Dr Colm Delaney and Dr Elaine Corbett were among just seven researchers in Ireland to receive the coveted awards worth up to €5 million from the ERC.
22 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Business|Research|Science
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Orla Hardiman named 2022 SFI Researcher of the Year
Trinity researchers won three of nine awards at the 2022 SFI Summit event to celebrate the best of Irish research.
22 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland team awarded prestigious Ellis Prize
The Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) has awarded the prestigious Ellis Prize to the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Considered the ‘Oscar’ for the recordkeeping sector, the award has been given for only the tenth time in 50 years.
21 Nov 2022
Arts|Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin celebrated to mark poet’s 80th birthday
Literary experts and leading Irish poets will gather in Trinity College Dublin this weekend for an event to mark the 80th birthday of the celebrated poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin later this month.
17 Nov 2022
Arts|Research
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Experiences of methadone service users explored in human rights-based study
The study - published in the International Journal of Drug Policy - found that people who want or need to recover often end up feeling more marginalised because of their experiences of methadone services.
17 Nov 2022
Health|Research
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New project will equip police with advanced technologies to combat disinformation linked to crime
VIGILANT is a €4 million Horizon Europe project aimed at curbing the spread of disinformation and combating its negative effects such as promoting hate speech, human trafficking, and bogus medical cures.
16 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research
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Eight Trinity researchers among the most cited in the world
Eight researchers affiliated with Trinity feature on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2022 list from Clarivate, which identifies researchers who have demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.
15 Nov 2022
Research
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New study explores IL-25 as potential target for inflammatory disease
A new study, published recently in the journal Antibody Therapeutics, describes the discovery of a novel antibody which may have therapeutic potential by blocking the progression of inflammation caused by the cytokine interleukin-25 (IL-25).
15 Nov 2022
Health|Innovation|Research
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15 ways to reforest the planet: international scientists call for decade of global action
Scientists are calling for a “decade of global action” to reforest the planet following the publication of new research involving botanists from Trinity. The landmark issue of the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions reveals the latest scientific advances in forest restoration with the aim of benefiting people as well as nature.
14 Nov 2022
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Incredible difference-making researchers and inventors honoured at Trinity Innovation Awards
Trinity’s leading researchers and inventors have been recognised for their innovative research and entrepreneurship at the 2022 Trinity Innovation Awards. Orla Hardiman, Professor of Neurology, received the headline Provost Innovation Award, while Werner Blau, Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics, won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
8 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research
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Trinity team unearths potential secret to viral resistance
Researchers worked with women infected by hepatitis C following exposure to contaminated anti-D medication in the 1970s. Some of these women exposed to the virus never showed symptoms and now – over 40 years on – the researchers believe they know why.
4 Nov 2022
Health|Research|Science
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Promising results from psilocybin therapy trial for treatment-resistant depression
Trinity researchers have participated in the largest and most rigorous clinical trial to date of psilocybin. Their findings are published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
3 Nov 2022
Health|Research|Science
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Connemara Marble designated a Heritage Stone
Connemara Marble, seen to beautiful effect in Trinity College Dublin’s iconic Museum Building, has been designated a Heritage Stone. One of ten stone types to be designated as such this year, Connemara Marble is now one of only 32 Heritage Stones worldwide.
3 Nov 2022
Arts
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Ten-year dataset yields vital clues for supporting Ireland’s precious pollinators
Ecologists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed vital clues for how we can best support Ireland’s precious pollinators after interrogating a ten-year dataset containing information from 119 sites across the country.
2 Nov 2022
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Marine biologists team up with tiger sharks to help discover the world’s largest seagrass ecosystem
Today one of the biggest marine discoveries of the last decade is being announced: the largest seagrass ecosystem in the world, an area in The Bahamas estimated to be up to 92,000 km2. Published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the study details a unique partnership with tiger sharks that played a key role in mapping and ultimately validating the main findings.
1 Nov 2022
Environment|Research|Science
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Trinity physicist to lead €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project
Professor Mark Mitchison has won an EU Quantum Technologies Flagship research grant worth €2.9 million. He will lead a team of researchers seeking to understand nature’s timekeeping limitations and querying whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.
1 Nov 2022
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Support & Befriending service reduces health decline in older people
New research funded by the Health Research Board and ALONE, and hosted by the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), shows that support and befriending services for older people can reduce health decline.
28 Oct 2022
Health|Research
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Seán Hewitt awarded 2022 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
The Rooney Prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40 years of age. It is administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for Creative Writing in the School of English.
27 Oct 2022
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Concerning 20-year knowledge gap on young adult brain health
Researchers at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at Trinity College have highlighted a stark knowledge gap on brain health spanning 20 years in young adults, in an editorial recently published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
27 Oct 2022
Health|Research
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Several beautiful new bird species found on remote Indonesian islands
Zoologists from Trinity, working with a research team in Indonesia, have found several new species of colourful, tropical sunbirds. The zoologists have identified a new species, the “Wakatobi Sunbird” (Cinnyris infrenatus), which lives on the tiny Wakatobi Islands in central Indonesia. They also examined the more widespread Olive-backed Sunbirds and Black Sunbirds, and found that individuals named as such actually belonged to multiple unrecognised species.
25 Oct 2022
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Trinity offers a sneak-peak at the sweet spot for innovation at the SUGAR Global Kick Off 2022/23
Innovation thought leaders will unveil the secrets behind innovating so that companies can take their products and services to the next level, and outline how to effectively engage in collaborative innovation at the SUGAR Global Kick Off 2022/23, which is this week hosted by Trinity.
24 Oct 2022
Business|Innovation|Research|Students
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ProMotion Rewards secures €725,000 pre-seed investment
Pharmacy graduates and former Tangent LaunchBox winners (2020), Bidemi Afolabi and Lauren O’Reilly created ProMotion Rewards to help brands understand consumer behaviours.
24 Oct 2022
Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students
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Medical device regulation challenges put children's surgeries at risk
Research led by Trinity College has found that a regulation which came into effect in May 2021 with the aim of improving the oversight of medical devices in Ireland is leading to unintended consequences which may put some surgeries for children, and the treatment of rare diseases, at risk. The study has been published in the journal Pediatric Cardiology.
20 Oct 2022
Health|Research
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Speak of the Devil! The enduring appeal of the demonic in politics and culture
From biblical times to contemporary US Christian nationalist movement and Japanese computer games – international experts will gather in Trinity this week to share their research on the numerous and complex ways in which demons continue to live with and influence us today.
20 Oct 2022
Research
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Old Library moves collections in landmark conservation project
Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan visited the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin this week to see at close quarters the monumental task of decanting the Library collections as part of the Old Library Redevelopment Project.
20 Oct 2022
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Our brains use quantum computation
Scientists from Trinity believe our brains could use quantum computation after adapting an idea developed to prove the existence of quantum gravity to explore the human brain and its workings. The discovery may shed light on consciousness, the workings of which remain scientifically difficult to understand and explain.
19 Oct 2022
Research|Science
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Verbal skills main educational challenge for migrant children
Gaps in verbal skills are the biggest educational challenge being experienced by young children of migrant origin, according to new research conducted by sociologists in Trinity College Dublin.
18 Oct 2022
Research
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New machine-learning technique for classifying key immune cells
The technique accurately classifies the state of macrophages, which is important because these cells can modify their behaviour and act as pro- or anti-inflammatory agents in the immune response. As a result, the work has a suite of implications for research and has the potential to one day make major societal impact.
18 Oct 2022
Health|Research|Science
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2022 Burkitt Medal awarded to Dr Eileen O’Reilly
Established in 2013, the prestigious Burkitt Medal recognises an individual who demonstrates extraordinary achievement and advancement in the field of cancer internationally.
17 Oct 2022
Awards and Funding|Health|Research
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Scientists classify the entire planet’s ecosystems for the first time
A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers, and including those from Trinity College Dublin, has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world’s ecosystems across land, rivers and wetlands, and seas. The ecosystem typology will enable more coordinated and effective biodiversity conservation, critical for human wellbeing.
12 Oct 2022
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability