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Trinity team's new chip-scale light technology could power faster AI and data centre communications

Researchers at Trinity have developed a new light-based technology on a tiny chip that could help make the data centres behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global internet services faster and more efficient.

31 Mar 2026

Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths"

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.

26 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Earlier detection, better outcomes: Irish researchers target rising bowel cancer rates with new blood test

Researchers from Trinity, Dublin City University and University College Dublin will use funding of €670,000 from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund to develop a breakthrough blood-based screening test.

26 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science

Why are there no gigantic dragonflies terrorising the skies today?

Gigantic dragonfly-like insects – the “griffinflies” – ruled the skies around 300 million years ago, but they have long been consigned to evolution’s graveyard.

25 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science

Young Dublin authors bring tales of new adventures to Trinity’s Old Library

An exhibition of 55 handmade books written and illustrated by Dublin primary school students marks the culmination of the Trinity Access Programmes Bookmarks initiative.

25 Mar 2026

Community|Culture

“Tiny but beautifully formed”: Bronze Age spindle whorl connects ancient city of Troy to Ireland

A tiny Bronze Age spindle whorl, excavated from the ancient city of Troy, will take centre stage in Trinity this week as experts and artists gather to examine the biography of the only artefact from the ancient city of Troy in Ireland.

24 Mar 2026

Culture|Research

Researchers offer an exciting treatment to target the host, and not the bacteria

This published research tells us that Trinity scientists have discovered a way to “train” the immune system to better fight drug-resistant infections like MRSA and TB. Today is World TB Day 2026.

24 Mar 2026

Health|Research

The grief myth: it doesn’t come in stages or follow a checklist – like love, it endures

Our ideas about “normal” grief are deeply shaped by the world we have inherited, writes Aoife Lynam, School of Education, in a piece for The Conversation.

23 Mar 2026

Research|Society

Machine learning could help predict how people with depression respond to treatment

Trinity researchers have found that a machine learning model could help clinicians predict which people with depression are more likely to improve with digital cognitive behavioural therapy compared to antidepressant medication.

19 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Society

Groundbreaking Trinity research reveals “leaky” brain barrier as driver of chronic brain damage in retired combat and collision sports athletes

The work, led by teams at Trinity and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Centre, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes.

18 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Science

The Keepsake Chronicles: stories in times of dementia

Keepsake Chronicles is a collaboration between a nurse, a creative writer and a photographer. As participants tell their stories, we record their words and photograph them in the act of telling. This captures expressions rich with emotion that are inseparable from the stories themselves.

16 Mar 2026

Health|Research|Society

Shortlist for Pollard Poetry Prize announced

Valued at €10,000, the prize is sponsored by the John Pollard Foundation and administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English.

12 Mar 2026

Awards and Funding|Culture

Mental health toll of flooding in Ireland highlighted in new research

The psychological impacts of flooding in Ireland often far outlast the physical damage, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University and National College of Ireland.

12 Mar 2026

Research|Society

Sustainability Leadership Awards 2026

Provost Linda Doyle and Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout kicked off the awards held in Portal on Monday 9th March as part of Trinity's 24th annual Green Week. The awards are in their fourth year running, an initiative conceived and led by Sustainability Manager Jane Hackett.

11 Mar 2026

Sustainability

"When people are supported, you can find your way": student shares path to Trinity

Nora Corcoran, a member of the Traveller community, has credited Trinity in strengthening her confidence and developing skills and knowledge that shape her daily work and her commitment to lifelong learning and community empowerment.

11 Mar 2026

Community|Society|Students

Trinity receives landmark gift to support conservation and restoration of cultural treasures

The landmark €7m gift from The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation will support the design and construction of a gallery on the ground floor of the Old Library.

11 Mar 2026

Arts|Awards and Funding|Culture

Trinity is first choice for 6.2% more students in 2026 CAO

11,236 students picked Trinity as their first choice for Level 8 courses, compared with 10,577 in 2025.

10 Mar 2026

Students

What Irish politician Thomas Gould’s accent going viral in Jamaica reveals about colonial history

Jane Ohlmeyer, School of Histories and Humanities, writes for The Conversation about Ireland and Jamaica's complicated shared history.

6 Mar 2026

Culture|Research|Society

Trinity partners with Open Forum for AI to advance transparent and accountable AI systems

Researchers from ADAPT and Trinity bring particular strength and expertise in standards development, AI governance, and human-centered system design, helping to ensure that openness is built into the technology and the way it is deployed.

5 Mar 2026

Research|Science|Society

Women providing philanthropic leadership to deliver inclusive, long-term social change

The first in-depth qualitative exploration of contemporary women’s philanthropy in Ireland was conducted by Trinity Business School’s Centre for Social Innovation in partnership with Community Foundation Ireland and Trinity Development and Alumni.

5 Mar 2026

Business|Community|Research

Green Week 2026: Trinity gathers to celebrate leadership in sustainability

This will be Trinity’s 24th Green Week, a time when our community gathers to put a spotlight on sustainability through talks, events and workshops. There are over 20 events to choose from, including the inaugural Sustainability Leadership Awards as the unofficial kick-off on Monday 9 March.

5 Mar 2026

Community|Sustainability

Pytch team partners with Kinia to produce Irish-language coding resources

Researchers from Trinity, in partnership with Kinia, have produced a new set of Irish-language coding resources designed to support secondary school students beginning to code with Pytch.

4 Mar 2026

Research|Science|Students

Creative Brain Week is back for 2026!

Now in its fifth year, the event returns to Dublin next week, March 2–6, 2026, seeding new ideas into society, culture and health with talks, exhibitions and workshops.

27 Feb 2026

Health|Research

Ruin of Giants on display at Trinity East

Abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman and Jamaican political leader Marcus Garvey are the subjects of two new bronze sculptures which have been installed at Trinity College Dublin’s Trinity East campus.

26 Feb 2026

Community|Culture|Society

Trinity-ADAPT team’s AI-enhanced, maritime vessel detection system wins Research Ireland's Defence Innovation Challenge

Researchers from Trinity and the ADAPT Research Ireland Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology won the Maritime Situational Awareness Challenge after creating a system that will strengthen Ireland’s naval security.

25 Feb 2026

Awards and Funding|Environment|Innovation|Research|Science

Some animals “see the world" more quickly than others

From dragonflies to starfish, new Trinity research shows that the speed of visual perception across the animal kingdom is driven by lifestyle and environment, with fast-paced lives demanding faster vision.

24 Feb 2026

Environment|Research|Science

Seven students receive Three Ireland Connect to STEM scholarships for women

The awardees, who are first and second-year students at Trinity, are the latest of more than 20 Trinity students to be awarded Three Ireland Connect to STEM Scholarships for Women since the programme began in 2022/23.

24 Feb 2026

Awards and Funding|Students

A landmark “evolutionary double-bind” strategy to overcome treatment resistance in prostate cancer

A new study led by researchers from Trinity and the Moffitt Cancer Center shows how radiation therapy can be used to expose—and then eliminate—therapy-resistant cancer cells using natural killer cell immunotherapy.

23 Feb 2026

Health|Research|Science

Trauma-informed, gender-sensitive care crucial for women

New Trinity study is first of its kind in Ireland to specifically focus on women to address the disproportionately poor physical health of this population when compared to the general population.

20 Feb 2026

Health|Research|Society

Key immune trigger identified that may be a central player in MS progression

Researchers believe this study further highlights that a key immune system switch warrants full investigation in MS and may be a promising potential target for future MS therapies.

19 Feb 2026

Health|Research