Trinity celebrates new Scholars and Fellows

Dr Linda Doyle said: 

"Today I want to congratulate the students and staff who have been named Scholars and Fellows. It is a fantastic academic achievement.I would also like to commend all those students who sat the Schols exams this year. We know that a bright future awaits all of you. Go n'éirí an bóthar libh go léir."

This year’s Scholars come from a broad range of disciplines, including Law, Medicine, Computer Science and English Studies. 

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Each Scholar is entitled to a range of benefits, including free accommodation on campus. 

Above: Tara Byrne, new Scholar, celebrates with friends. Main front image shows new Scholar Emmanuella Oluborade, Law

Two Honorary Fellows were announced. They were:

Professor Veronica Campbell

President of the South East Technological University Veronica Campbell holds a degree in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Neuropharmacology from the University of London. She was awarded a Health Research Board post-doctoral fellowship in 1996 and was appointed to an academic post in the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin in 1998.

Prof Campbell has extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience and a successful research record in cell biology, pharmacology and tissue engineering. She has held several senior leadership roles in Trinity College Dublin, including Dean of Graduate Studies and Bursar & Director of Strategic Innovation; in the latter role from 2015 to 2021 Prof Campbell oversaw the commencement of a €300 million capital project portfolio in the university.

Prof Campbell currently serves on the Board of the Atlantic Institute, based in Oxford University, and was the inaugural chair of the Global Brain Health Institute of Trinity College and UCSF. She is a former President of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (Biomedical Sciences Section).

Paula Meehan

Poet Paula Meehan received her BA in English, history, and classical civilisation from Trinity. She travelled widely after college, to Germany, Greece, Crete, and the Shetland Islands. In 1981, she embarked upon an MFA at Eastern Washington University, where visiting professors Gary Snyder and Carolyn Kizer became literary influences. She settled down in Dublin in 1983. There, she began holding writing workshops for prisoners and low-income communities in inner-city Dublin. In 1984, Meehan published her first poetry collection, Return and No Blame, with Beaver Row Press. Since then, she has authored eight further solo poetry collections, She frequently collaborates with creative practitioners across genres; she has written poetry for film and dance, and songwriters have put her poems to music. Meehan is a member of Aosdána and was named Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2013, becoming the second woman to hold the post. Her poetry has been translated into languages including French, German, Greek, Estonian, Japanese, and Irish. One of Ireland’s most prominent living poets, Meehan writes poetry known for its wit and attention to craft, its confidence in ranging across topics from natural science to myth to current events, and its centring of forgotten people and places.

ENDS

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