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Robbie the Robot Team Wins 2014 Technological Innovation Award
The Trinity engineers were rewarded for their work in building a prototype robot to help carry out everyday tasks for teenager Joanne O'Riordan, who was born with Total Amelia.
24 Nov 2014
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Ground-Breaking Geneticist Wins 2014 Boyle Medal for Scientific Excellence
Smurfit Professor of Medical Genetics at Trinity, Seamus Martin, was awarded the medal for improving our understanding of cancer and auto-immune conditions.
24 Nov 2014
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Over Four Hundred Students Receive Trinity High Achiever Award
The students represent 30 counties in Ireland together with candidates from the U.K., France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and Spain.
21 Nov 2014
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Study Highlights Barriers Homeless Young People Face in Accessing Housing
The innovative study shows homelessness among young people symbolises a unique form of marginality and the findings provide important insights for policy-makers.
21 Nov 2014
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Tests of Einstein’s General Relativity Discussed at ‘Hamilton Scholars’ Launch
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a public lecture about pulsars as the first 'Hamilton Scholar' was welcomed to Trinity’s School of Mathematics.
20 Nov 2014
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Search for Ireland’s Top Young Problem-Solver Begins
Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan, urged secondary school students to test their creative problem-solving skills in the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad.
20 Nov 2014
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Trinity Launches New Mentoring Programme for Second-Level Students from DEIS Schools
More than 1,200 Second Level Students attended the 'College for Every Student' Mentoring Programme Launch
19 Nov 2014
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Comet the Likely Cause of Ancient Crater
Geologists at Trinity believe the Sudbury Basin – one of the largest of its kind on Earth – was likely caused by a comet hitting the earth over 1.8 billion years ago.
17 Nov 2014
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Gene Implicated in Parkinson’s Disease Repairs and Replaces Nerve Cells
Trinity scientists showed that the gene produces a protein that functions to repair or destroy damaged nerve cells but
17 Nov 2014
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Scientists Unlock Crucial Mechanism Driving Colliding Epidemics of Smoking and Tuberculosis
The discovery opens up new routes to treat and prevent the infectious disease which kills 1.5 million people a year.
14 Nov 2014