College News
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Professor Brendan Browne opens the world of medicine to North Belfast teenagers
A project led by Trinity professor Brendan Browne to introduce teenagers from disadvantaged areas of Belfast to the medical world has just completed a successful eight-week run.
20 Dec 2019
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Inauguration of Chancellor Mary McAleese
Professor McAleese has a long-standing connection with Trinity, having held the position of Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology from 1975 to 1987 and been involved in numerous University events and initiatives over subsequent years.
18 Dec 2019
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Trinity’s Day Nursery celebrates 50 years in operation
The first on-site workplace creche in Ireland, the Day Nursery on campus at Trinity College Dublin, celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
18 Dec 2019
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Professor Louise Richardson Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford gives Henry Grattan lecture
The lecture titled “Speaking to the Hand: the Rhetoric of Division and the Threat to Democracy” was hosted by the Embassy of Ireland in London in association with Trinity College Dublin.
17 Dec 2019
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New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate change-ready
Trinity scientists have found that with rising CO2 levels, evergreen trees and shrubs are more efficient in using water than deciduous plants in cooler climate locations.
12 Dec 2019
Research
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Three Trinity researchers win prestigious European Research Council awards
Researchers from Trinity College won three of the six grants awarded to researchers at Irish universities.
10 Dec 2019
Research
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SUBMERGE – Science Gallery Bengaluru Launches First Exhibition
When we think of water, we are mostly thinking of the 3% that is freshwater on Earth. What does it mean to think of water beyond its being a resource: water is after all a weird substance? It is present in the smallest of living cells as well in gigantic glaciers and oceans. Water shapes […]
9 Dec 2019
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Pioneering Trinity ecologist wins IRC Early Career Researcher of the Year
Pioneering ecologist, Dr Jeremy J Piggott, Assistant Professor in Zoology in Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences, has won the prestigious 2019 Irish Research Council Early Career Researcher of the Year award.
6 Dec 2019
Research
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Celebrating Innovative Research at Trinity
Leading researchers and inventors at Trinity College Dublin were acknowledged for their innovative research and entrepreneurship at the Trinity Innovation Awards 2019 special awards ceremony. The highest accolade, the Provost Innovation Award went to Trinity Alumni Sean Mitchell and David Moloney for their leadership in the highly competitive semiconductor industry. Sean Mitchell Having completed […]
6 Dec 2019
Research
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An Taoiseach and Minister Madigan launch the Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury research project
The flagship research project led by Trinity will digitally recreate seven centuries of historical records of the Public Record Office of Ireland destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War.
5 Dec 2019
Research