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Indigenous Ashaninka DNA helps geneticists write new chapters of pre-colonial history in South America
Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru.
16 Mar 2023
Research|Science
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We used to think diamonds were everywhere. New research suggests they’ve always been rare
Emma Tomlinson, Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, co-authored this piece about what her collaborative research is teaching us about the formation of diamonds throughout time.
16 Mar 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Rock stars solve long-standing diamond conundrum
Three researchers from Queensland University of Technology and Trinity College Dublin have solved a long-held geological conundrum about how diamonds formed in the deep roots of the earth’s ancient continents.
16 Mar 2023
Research|Science
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International law doesn’t protect people fleeing environmental disaster – here’s how it could
Only the creation of an efficient international framework of laws can guarantee refuge for people fleeing such environmental disasters in future, says Morgiane Noel, PhD Candidate, School of Law.
14 Mar 2023
Research|Society
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Landlords and tenants could both be aggrieved by the government’s ‘first refusal’ plan
It is hard to fully tease out the constitutional issues which may arise from the announcement that tenants will get the first chance to buy their home from their landlord, writes Dr Sarah Hamill, School of Law, in a piece first published in The Sunday Business Post.
13 Mar 2023
Research|Society
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Are interest rates really going to keep rising sharply?
Until core inflation is definitely under control, borrowing costs are going to rise more sharply than everyone was hoping, says Dr Supriya Kapoor, Trinity Business School, in this piece published in The Conversation.
13 Mar 2023
Business|Research|Society
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Trinity researchers compete in Sustainable Development Goals Challenge
The researchers, who aim to recycle heat from meat production in Zambia, have secured funding as one of six teams that will compete to chase a first prize of €1 million in the Sustainable Development Goals Challenge (SDG).
10 Mar 2023
Awards and Funding|Environment|Innovation|Research|Sustainability
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Trinity partners with World Food Programme on food insecurity and situations of risk
People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by acute food insecurity, according to a new study by researchers from Trinity’s Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies.
9 Mar 2023
Community|Research|Society
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Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?
On Thursday 23rd March, Professor Mark Cunningham, Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy and the Head of the Discipline of Physiology at Trinity College Dublin, will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled “Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?”. The lecture will take place in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at 6pm, and you can register for it here. The lecture is free and open to the public.
9 Mar 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Profs Jane Ohlmeyer and Jonathan N. Coleman receive RIA Gold Medals
The Trinity Professors were presented with Royal Irish Academy Gold Medals by Senator Malcolm Byrne at a ceremony in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
8 Mar 2023
Awards and Funding|Research