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Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal recipients announced

The 2023 Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities has been awarded to Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA and the 2023 Academy Gold Medal in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences has been awarded to Jonathan Coleman MRIA.

18 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding

New project will equip police with advanced technologies to combat disinformation linked to crime

VIGILANT is a €4 million Horizon Europe project aimed at curbing the spread of disinformation and combating its negative effects such as promoting hate speech, human trafficking, and bogus medical cures.

16 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Incredible difference-making researchers and inventors honoured at Trinity Innovation Awards

Trinity’s leading researchers and inventors have been recognised for their innovative research and entrepreneurship at the 2022 Trinity Innovation Awards. Orla Hardiman, Professor of Neurology, received the headline Provost Innovation Award, while Werner Blau, Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics, won the Lifetime Achievement Award.

8 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Trinity physicist to lead €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project

Professor Mark Mitchison has won an EU Quantum Technologies Flagship research grant worth €2.9 million. He will lead a team of researchers seeking to understand nature’s timekeeping limitations and querying whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.

1 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

ProMotion Rewards secures €725,000 pre-seed investment

Pharmacy graduates and former Tangent LaunchBox winners (2020), Bidemi Afolabi and Lauren O’Reilly created ProMotion Rewards to help brands understand consumer behaviours.

24 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students

Trinity College Dublin honours 10 notable alumni with awards

The gala dinner on campus was an opportunity for Trinity staff, students, alumni, and friends to reflect on the tremendous achievements of the wider Trinity community.

21 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding

Trinity benefits from legacy of Elan founder Dr Don Panoz

Dr Panoz died in September 2018, aged 83, leaving part of his estate to Trinity. This followed his funding in 1994 of the Panoz Institute, a purpose-built home for the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences on campus.

18 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Health

2022 Burkitt Medal awarded to Dr Eileen O’Reilly

Established in 2013, the prestigious Burkitt Medal recognises an individual who demonstrates extraordinary achievement and advancement in the field of cancer internationally.

17 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Eleven Trinity researchers to receive Irish Research Council Laureate Awards

Eleven researchers from Trinity College Dublin were among the 48 successful applicants of the Irish Research Council (IRC) Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards announced today. The investment of almost €24 million in ‘curiosity-driven’ frontier research, will fund 48 ground-breaking research projects under the Irish Research Council’s Starting and Consolidator Laureate Awards Programme.

10 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Research

Inaugural Beckett Creative Fellows announced

The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is delighted to announce that it will be hosting Niamh Campbell and Nathan O’Donnell as the inaugural Beckett Creative Fellows this coming academic year, 2022-23.

22 Sep 2022

Arts|Awards and Funding|Research