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Fewer staff, students are walking and cycling, survey finds
The numbers walking fell to 20% from a high of 28% in 2018, while the cycling rate was sharply down (-59%) from 2011.
20 Nov 2023
Community|Environment|Students
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Plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected
This research paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet, but despite the headline finding, the environmental scientists behind the work say it does not mean the world’s governments can take their foot off the brake in their obligations to reduce carbon emissions as fast as possible.
17 Nov 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Trinity wins European Social Services Award for child-centred research
Judges noted that “internationally, relatively few examples of research exist that represent the authentic voice of the child in the child protection system”.
17 Nov 2023
Awards and Funding|Community|Research
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Trinity celebrates sport scholars for the 2023/24 season
This year’s awardees, comprising 36 Trinity Sport scholars and 28 club academy scholars will represent Trinity this season across seventeen sports including rugby, basketball, GAA, soccer, rowing, and cricket.
15 Nov 2023
Awards and Funding|Community|Students
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Trinity invites submissions on legacy issues and renaming of the library
"It is important for us to listen to as many voices as possible, as we embark on a further evidence-based review of legacy issues. This website offers us an important mechanism to do that.”
15 Nov 2023
Community|Research|Society|Students
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World COPD day: research, advances and collaboration
Today, November 15th, is World COPD Day. Professor Suzanne Cloonan writes about the disease, its incidence in Ireland, current research and the establishment of an international research network which was founded to expand our understanding of COPD.
15 Nov 2023
Health|Research
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Accounting for nature a priority for Ireland’s prosperity – new report
The team behind a pioneering project for nature, INCASE, has issued a series of recommendations to value, restore and protect Ireland’s resources through applying a natural capital accounting framework as a national priority.
15 Nov 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Celebrating Student Life: TAP marks 30th birthday with contemporary art exhibition
As well as an online auction, the 'Essence of Student Life' exhibition will run daily from November 14th to 17th in the Exam Hall in Trinity College with artist walkthrough sessions and other activities happening daily.
14 Nov 2023
Arts|Community|Culture
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Opinion: Supreme Court’s interpretation of Judicial Appointments Bill matters greatly
Prof Oran Doyle, School of Law, provides an explainer on the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of legal argument about the constitutionality of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill. This was first published in the Irish Independent.
13 Nov 2023
Research|Society
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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill under the spotlight this week
The Trinity Centre for Constitutional Governance (TriCON) is hosting a conference this week on the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill.
13 Nov 2023
Research|Society
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Storm Debi Update: Trinity reopens
The university has reopened as of 11 am, Monday 13 November.
12 Nov 2023
Community
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Storm Debi Update
The university will be closed until the red warning expires which is currently at 8.00am, Monday 13 November.
12 Nov 2023
Community|Students
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New research offers hope for reduced muscle wastage for cancer patients
Researchers from Trinity, in collaboration with Artelo Biosciences, have made a breakthrough in cancer cachexia. Their work shows the drug ART27.13 protects against the muscle degeneration associated with colon and lung cancers (cachexia) and believe it may also positively impact life expectancy.
10 Nov 2023
Health|Research|Science
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“Monstrous” Women in history, politics, & law
Renowned historian Professor Joanna Bourke will deliver the 8th annual Edmund Burke Lecture on Thursday, November 16th.
9 Nov 2023
Culture|Research|Society
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Autism brain states hold the key to unlocking childhood memories
Neuroscientists have discovered a fascinating connection between the retention of early life memories and brain developmental trajectories associated with autism. Their research reveals that “infantile amnesia” – the forgetting of memories formed during early infancy – is both reversible and preventable.
9 Nov 2023
Research|Science
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Trinity Innovation Awards celebrate academics’ contribution to research and innovation
Dr Bruce Murphy, a prolific innovator and translational researcher working in medical device design, received the headline Provost’s Innovation Award at the annual event that brings Trinity’s stellar innovation and enterprise community together.
8 Nov 2023
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research
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People experiencing homelessness impeded from full access to health services
Call for national strategy to guide integrated, coordinated health services for people experiencing homelessness as research finds high degree of fragmentation in mainstream health services impeding full access to healthcare.
8 Nov 2023
Health|Research|Society
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Competition inspires students to focus on proficiency in specialised care of older patients
Teams of under-graduate medical students from the medical schools in Ireland will compete for the Dr Jack Flanagan Medal in Gerontology.
8 Nov 2023
Awards and Funding|Health|Research
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Seven awards for SFI-IRC pathway programme represent the richness of Trinity’s research
The awards, designed to support Ireland’s emerging research talent and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches, were announced this week by Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
8 Nov 2023
Health|Research
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Why a surprise discovery, warming seas and the demise of the ‘Meg’ may spell trouble for sharks
Some unexpected shark strandings and subsequent surprises following autopsies have, ironically, taken marine biologists millions of years back in time as they look to the future with concern.
8 Nov 2023
Environment|Research|Science