College News
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Trinity PhD student in European final for innovation award
A PhD student at Trinity College Dublin is today (Wednesday May 20th) competing with counterparts in major European universities in the final of an innovation competition run by electronics company Qualcomm. Daniel Joseph (DJ) Ringis works in the area of AI for video streaming with the Sigmedia Group in Trinity’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. From Trinidad, he is in his third year and is supervised by Professor Anil Kokaram and Dr Francois Pitie. The Sigmedia group has […]
20 May 2020
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Trinity research helping policy makers make safer decisions on reopening our communities
Over the last number of weeks, Ireland has taken public health measures such as closing schools and businesses and encouraging social and physical distancing to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Planning for easing of such restrictions is difficult because we don’t know how many people in the community have been infected with the […]
14 May 2020
Research
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How blocking iron drives the lung immune system to control infection
Researchers have discovered how the iron chelator, DFX, which functions by attaching to iron, drives the immune system to deal with tuberculosis.
13 May 2020
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Association between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID-19
Trinity researchers are calling on government to change recommendations for vitamin D supplements as a matter of urgency.
11 May 2020
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AMBER to educate and entertain with new digital experience for kids at home
Through fun educational videos children from the ages of 10 to 12 can learn about science at home during the current lockdown.
7 May 2020
Research
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Defining the course of the COVID-19 disease in the immunosuppressed patient
Could people receiving immunosuppressive therapies in fact be protected from the disease?
7 May 2020
Research
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Is the ‘new abnormal’ troublesome for our voices?
The study looks at our new ways of working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
6 May 2020
Research
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Disentangling the psychological, behavioural, media and governmental responses to COVID-19 via a cross-border analysis
The research project is one of six Trinity projects awarded funding through the recent HRB/IRC 'Covid-19 Rapid Response Call'
30 Apr 2020
Research
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Six innovative Trinity research projects to wage war on COVID-19
The research projects have been funded by the government's Covid-19 Rapid Response Call to tackle the nationwide pandemic.
29 Apr 2020
Research
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Isabel Galleymore wins 2020 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
Isabel's winning debut book is Significant Other, in which she takes a sustained look at the ‘eight million differently constructed hearts’ of species currently said to inhabit Earth.
21 Apr 2020