Articles
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Fresh insights into how glucose drives tuberculosis vaccine responses offer hope for improved efficacy
BCG is a live bacterial vaccine, of limited effectiveness for tuberculosis, but it's the only one we've got. However, scientists in the TB Immunology group at Trinity College Dublin and St. James's Hospital have provided fresh insights into the behaviour of a crucial cell in vaccine mechanisms, which may offer a fresh target for scientists seeking to improve vaccine efficacy.
6 Jul 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Green Tech Skillnet provides 30% discount on selected Trinity green courses
Trinity is pleased to announce that Green Tech Skillnet, an organisation dedicated to fostering skills and expertise in the field of green technology, will provide a 30% discount for learners pursuing several of Trinity's green diplomas and micro-credential courses.
7 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Environment|Students|Sustainability
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Understanding the challenges of participation in nursing home research: New Trinity study
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have this week launched a survey to find out why gathering this data for nursing home research is proving difficult.
11 Jul 2023
Community|Health|Research
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Ethiopia wants to join the BRICS group of nations: here are the pros and cons
Padraig Carmody, Professor in Geography at Trinity, is an expert in the political economy of globalisation in Africa. In this piece he takes a look at the desire of Ethiopia to join the BRICS grouping and assesses the potential benefits and risks.
12 Jul 2023
Society
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Prof Christine Casey wins prestigious ERC Advanced Grant
Professor Casey, School of Histories and Humanities, has won a European Research Council Advanced grant valued at €2.5 million to explore collective achievement in classical architecture of Ireland & Britain.
13 Jul 2023
Arts|Awards and Funding|Culture|Research
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Trinity to lead Creative Ireland climate action project
A cross-border project led by Trinity College Dublin has been awarded €250,000 by Creative Ireland to illustrate the urgency of climate challenge and rising sea levels.
14 Jul 2023
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Dr Tamara Boto wins Wellcome Career Development Award 2023
Assistant Professor in Physiology, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Dr Tamara Boto studies how features of importance, or salience, are processed in the brain, and how they affect memories, in health and disease.
19 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Research
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Hubs offering electric cars, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes to test potential of shared e-mobility to decarbonise transport
Researchers from Trinity, together with collaborators from the Atlantic Technological University (ATU), ESB and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, will lead a €1.35 million shared electric mobility project.
19 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Environment|Research
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Trinity team installs world's first user adjustable pole-piece electron microscope lens at Sandia National Laboratories
A team of researchers from the Ultramicroscopy Research Group at Trinity has recently completed the installation of a world-first UAP transmission electron microscope lens.
19 Jul 2023
Innovation|Research|Science
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Trinity student wins Inclusivity Partnership Award
This week, Children’s Books Ireland and the School of English announced the recipient of the 2023 Inclusivity Partnership Award. The partnership enables researchers to work closely with experts in the area of children’s books to investigate key issues in contemporary publishing for young readers. The recipient, Linde Vergeylen, is a student from the M.Phil programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English, Trinity. Under the supervision of Dr Pádraic Whyte, she will lead an investigation into the representation of disabilities in Young Adult verse novels.
20 Jul 2023
Awards and Funding|Community|Culture|Students