Trinity Highlights for 2023
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Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths"
New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.
26 March 2026
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Earlier detection, better outcomes: Irish researchers target rising bowel cancer rates with new blood test
Researchers from Trinity, Dublin City University and University College Dublin will use funding of €670,000 from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund to develop a breakthrough blood-based screening test.
26 March 2026
Awards and Funding|Health|Research|Science
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Why are there no gigantic dragonflies terrorising the skies today?
Gigantic dragonfly-like insects – the “griffinflies” – ruled the skies around 300 million years ago, but they have long been consigned to evolution’s graveyard.
25 March 2026
Environment|Research|Science
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Trinity gains in 2026 QS Subject Rankings
Named as one of the world’s top universities for the study of 43 subjects in all, Trinity now ranks 10th in the world for Nursing, up from 20th in 2025.
25 March 2026
Awards and Funding|Health
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Young Dublin authors bring tales of new adventures to Trinity’s Old Library
An exhibition of 55 handmade books written and illustrated by Dublin primary school students marks the culmination of the Trinity Access Programmes Bookmarks initiative.
25 March 2026
Community|Culture
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“Tiny but beautifully formed”: Bronze Age spindle whorl connects ancient city of Troy to Ireland
A tiny Bronze Age spindle whorl, excavated from the ancient city of Troy, will take centre stage in Trinity this week as experts and artists gather to examine the biography of the only artefact from the ancient city of Troy in Ireland.
24 March 2026
Culture|Research
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Researchers offer an exciting treatment to target the host, and not the bacteria
This published research tells us that Trinity scientists have discovered a way to “train” the immune system to better fight drug-resistant infections like MRSA and TB. Today is World TB Day 2026.
24 March 2026
Health|Research
Trinity Highlights from 2023
21 Dec 2023