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Announcement of Fellows and Scholars

The announcement of Scholars and Fellows takes place on Trinity Monday, 11 April. The ceremony is one of the oldest and most colourful at Trinity College and marks the beginning of the annual Trinity Week, a long established celebration of College life.

8 Apr 2016

Trinity launches new European digital health incubator programme

Digital health start-ups from across Ireland and Europe are embarking on a brand new European incubator programme hosted by Trinity College Dublin which aims to identify new technologies that promote healthy living, support active ageing and improve health care systems.

19 Jun 2018

‘Who reads poetry?’ asks Ireland’s Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The relationship between the poet and their reader was the focus of the annual Ireland Chair of Poetry lecture lecture delivered by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in Trinity College Dublin this week.

15 Mar 2018

Trinity welcomes Student Unions’ decision to wind down their protest

Trinity welcomes the decision by the Students’ Union and Graduate Students’ Union to wind down protests .

15 Mar 2018

The seemingly unremarkable crystals that could help predict volcanic eruptions

The new approach may also prove useful for studying volcanoes that have remained dormant.

23 Jan 2018

Rugby’s Silvester is Sports Person of Year

Annual awards celebrate year's sporting highlights

24 May 2018

Professor Luiz DaSilva delivers inaugural Trinity lecture

The lecture considered recent developments in wireless communications networks with a focus on the use of machine learning, stochastic geometry, and game theory.

10 Apr 2018

Trinity and Oxford go head-to-head in student Brexit debate

Trinity and Oxford contended that ‘This House would unite Ireland post-Brexit’ in Student Economic Review Debate.

7 Dec 2018

2018 Grattan Scholars committed to understanding & improving society

The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy has awarded two prestigious Grattan Scholarships to postgraduate students in the disciplines of Political Science and Sociology.

6 Dec 2018

Engineers showcase next-gen robotics research at Europe’s largest maker event

A Trinity delegation of six is showcasing a range of research including ‘Stevie’ the robot at Maker Faire Rome.

12 Oct 2018

Research

Palliative care improves hospital care for seriously ill patients

Palliative care provided by specialist medical and nursing teams to patients with complex health needs significantly improves their experience of care, new research from Trinity College Dublin shows.

4 May 2018

Wicked problems and how to solve them

An opinion piece published by The Conversation that explains how wicked problems can be solved, by using a water systems research case study.

18 Oct 2018

€9 million Horizon 2020 project – PoshBee – will protect global bee health

The five-year project will quantify the impacts of multiple pressures on a range of bee species and develop new tools to help protect them.

27 Jun 2018

Basking sharks can jump as high and as fast as great whites

The second-largest fish in the world can swim more than twice as fast as the average man in the Olympic 50m freestyle.

20 Sep 2018

Trinity students receive 1916 Bursary in GPO

These bursaries have been initiated to support under-represented student groups gain access to higher education.

18 Apr 2018

‘Super-Ranger’ badgers may hold the key to limiting the spread of bovine TB

Researchers have discovered a new ranging behaviour in male badgers, which will aid the implementation of the newly announced nationwide TB vaccination programme.

14 Feb 2018

President Higgins gives address on Africa Day

The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins gave a keynote address on ‘Africa-Ireland Relations: Current and Future’ at a special event in celebration of Africa Day.

25 May 2018

What’s next for the Catholic Church after visit of Pope Francis

Fáinche Ryan, Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology assesses the challenges for the Irish people in the aftermath of the papal visit in a piece published by The Conversation.

3 Sep 2018

Lara Croft is back with a bang – but there are real tomb raiders out there

PhD Researcher in Classics, Ellen Finn, with a piece published by The Conversation, in which she discusses eal-world tomb raiding.

20 Mar 2018

Writer Caitriona Lally wins 2018 Rooney Prize

Writer Caitriona Lally was announced as winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2018 for emerging Irish writers at Trinity College Dublin this evening.

25 Sep 2018