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Trinity Ability Co_op launches project to make clubs and societies more inclusive

Students with disabilities are often excluded from the social aspect of the student experience and this project will make real changes in the individual lives of Trinity students.

25 Aug 2021

Understanding the variability in responses to COVID-19 illness in older adults

Researchers from the School of Medicine and Tallaght University Hospital are represented amongst an international consortium of leading clinical research institutes investigating the variability in older people's responses to COVID-19.

19 Aug 2021

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Sleepy Surgeons: The effect of sleep deprivation on surgical performance

Researchers say that the way we deliver emergency healthcare work alongside normal work in Ireland has to change. The study is published in the Journal of Surgical Research.

18 Aug 2021

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Plant diversity in grasslands: Multi-species swards outperform even in drought conditions

Averaged across the two years of the trial, mixtures with all six species - grasses, legumes and herbs - produced the highest yields, and yielded more than the best of the six monocultures.

17 Aug 2021

New TILDA report reveals hopes and resilience of older adults through COVID

Research gives voice to those most affected by policy restrictions during the COVID pandemic and calls into question society's attitudes to ageing.

17 Aug 2021

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Trinity hosts first in-person graduation ceremonies since COVID-19 closure

Trinity is the first university in Ireland to proceed with an in-person graduation event. In keeping with COVID-19 protocols the events are held outdoors and attendance is limited to 200.

11 Aug 2021

Cancer-killing cells are diverted into fat and away from tumours in obese cancer patients

Scientists have, however, discovered a key biological pathway that – when targeted with drugs – can reduce the extent to which the cancer-killing cells are erroneously diverted.

9 Aug 2021

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Trinity to welcome Royal Society Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellows

Two researchers – Dr Michael Gibbons and Dr Michelle Browne – will join Trinity after winning University Research Fellowships to pursue research addressing issues of sustainability.

5 Aug 2021

Trinity launches new, flexible micro-credentials for future-fit, agile learning

Trinity’s first ever micro-credentials lead the way with cutting-edge content in the fields of leadership, sustainability, social impact and health.

4 Aug 2021

Legal experts find significant lack of transparency around key COVID-19 decisions taken in Ireland

In the report (Public Health Law During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland), the experts address many different facets of life impacted by such decisions, including the impact on people living in prisons and direct provision centres, and on Ireland’s approach to counting deaths from COVID-19.

4 Aug 2021