Articles
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Trinity tree of the month - Black Walnut
This month we are bringing you another gorgeous tree from Trinity College Botanic Gardens – Juglans nigra, or Black Walnut. This Black Walnut is 25 metres tall, has a girth of 2.62 metres and stores an estimated 2,617 kilograms of carbon. It can store up to 6,000 kilograms when it matures.
21 Jun 2023
Environment|Sustainability
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Generative AI models are encoding biases and negative stereotypes in their users
Mass fabrication has the potential to influence human belief as the models that drive it become increasingly common, populating the World Wide Web, new findings conclude.
23 Jun 2023
Innovation|Research|Society
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JFK Moonshot: Reimagining human potential and progress
Trinity to host a fireside chat between Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison and Lant Pritchett, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics
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JFK Moonshot: Patrick Collison in fireside chat at Trinity
To mark the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland, Trinity hosted this year’s JFK Moonshot in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Kennedy Summer School.
27 Jun 2023
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Oral vaccine programme secures non-dilutive funding
Trinity’s Professor Ed Lavelle identified vaccine adjuvants that will be used as part of the research.
26 Jun 2023
Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Science
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Trinity placed 81st in world in QS University Rankings
Trinity’s Provost Dr Linda Doyle said: "We need proper sustained long-term investment in people and infrastructure to ensure the conditions exist for our students and staff to excel. Investment such as this in higher education benefits our students, our society, and Ireland’s standing in the world.”
27 Jun 2023
Awards and Funding|Community|Research
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“The start of something big” – first compelling evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves in the cosmos
Scientists from Trinity are part of the European Pulsar Timing Array, which joins teams worldwide in today announcing evidence for gravitational wave signals of cosmological origin. They believe these ripples in space-time, predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, are produced by pairs of supermassive black holes.
29 Jun 2023
Research|Science
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National Recognition for Printing House Square
Printing House Square in Trinity College Dublin was announced as the winner of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland's Award for the Learning Environments category last week. This a national award recognising a broad range of categories in the field of architecture in Ireland.
30 Jun 2023
Awards and Funding
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No Mow May gives life to rare orchid
A rare orchid has appeared on Trinity's campus as an unexpected outcome of its decision to allow wildflowers bloom in the month of May. Trinity stopped mowing several formal lawns across campus for the month of May as part of the international No Mow May initiative. This allowed wildflowers like clovers and daisies to bloom and provided food for pollinating insects, which are currently in decline.
3 Jul 2023
Environment|Sustainability
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A new bacterial blueprint to aid in the war on antibiotic resistance
A team of scientists from around the globe, including those from Trinity, has gained high-res structural insights into a key bacterial enzyme, which may help chemists design new drugs to inhibit it and thus suppress disease-causing bacteria.
1 Jul 2023
Health|Research|Science