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Trinity researchers engage students with sustainable aviation initiatives at Dublin Newton Room

The Dublin Newton Room is a mobile, state-of-the-art classroom, which will deliver hands-on STEM workshops to local students over the next three weeks, strengthening links between industry, academia and the public.

7 May 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Students|Sustainability

Bee more specific! New radar tech could revolutionise how we identify and track the world’s key pollinators

Scientists from Trinity and Technical University of Denmark have developed a new radar-based technique that could address a critical gap in global conservation efforts, by transforming how we identify and track the insects that are actually responsible for pollinating plants.

6 May 2026

Environment|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

CONUNDRUM team wins National Challenge funding to scale public engagement in transport planning

Researchers from Trinity are among those to have won National Challenge funding to scale public engagement in transport planning

21 Apr 2026

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Iconic sharks and tunas are overheating; face “double jeopardy” in warming seas

A new study led by researchers from Trinity and the University of Pretoria, reveals that some of the ocean’s most powerful predators are running hotter, and that they are likely paying an increasingly steep price for it.

16 Apr 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

The surprising power of seashells: how oyster waste can recapture rare earth elements

Prof. Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco and his team in Trinity's School of Natural Sciences, are exploring how waste shells can "grab" critically needed rare earth elements.

15 Apr 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

E3 at Trinity spotlights future of logistics and supply chain management

Over 1,000 delegates will next week (Thursday 16th April) engage with a vibrant series of events celebrating European Supply Chain Day at an online conference hosted by E3 at Trinity College Dublin.

9 Apr 2026

Business|Research|Sustainability

Centre for Academic Practice awarded National SATLE Impact Award

The award recognises the Centre for Academic Practice’s initiative, ‘Embedding Education for Sustainable Development across the Disciplines at Trinity", which supports the integration of sustainability into teaching, learning and curriculum design across the University.

1 Apr 2026

Awards and Funding|Sustainability

Trinity team's new chip-scale light technology could power faster AI and data centre communications

Researchers at Trinity have developed a new light-based technology on a tiny chip that could help make the data centres behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global internet services faster and more efficient.

31 Mar 2026

Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Why rural Ireland holds the key to transport decarbonisation

Recent research conducted through a collaboration between the Schools of Physics and Engineering, and published in the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, explores decarbonisation of transport, and the particular challenges that exist in Ireland due to our population density and geography.

31 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Health and Sport Week keynote: Dr May van Schalkwyk addresses industry harm

Dr May van Schalkwyk, public health doctor and researcher gave the Health and Sports Week keynote address in Trinity Long Room Hub this week to a full house with attendees from the civil service, health services, non-governmental organisations and activists from a wide range of sectors.

26 Mar 2026

Business|Health|Society|Sustainability