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Trinity and AIB team up to deliver 450 laptops to schoolgoers
The Tech2Students initiative is part of Trinity's Access Programme and ensures the devices will be delivered to schools in the greater Dublin area within the next two weeks.
5 May 2020
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Professor Eve Patten announced as new director of Trinity Long Room Hub
A Professor in modern literature and culture, Professor Patten is also a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She has served as Head of School, Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre and Co-ordinator of the MPhil in Irish Writing.
1 May 2020
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Disentangling the psychological, behavioural, media and governmental responses to COVID-19 via a cross-border analysis
The research project is one of six Trinity projects awarded funding through the recent HRB/IRC 'Covid-19 Rapid Response Call'
30 Apr 2020
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Six innovative Trinity research projects to wage war on COVID-19
The research projects have been funded by the government's Covid-19 Rapid Response Call to tackle the nationwide pandemic.
29 Apr 2020
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Democracy in an age of pandemics
The Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest online-only Behind the Headlines discussion tackled the topic of democracy and pandemics, with an international panel of speakers.
29 Apr 2020
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ADAPT and OSi enable open data access for COVID-19 app developers and researchers
Open access to the COVID-19 Health surveillance monitor via the Geohive’s Dataportal and the government’s Open Data portal will be a major help to researchers and app developers.
28 Apr 2020
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Trinity engineers use 3D printers at home in battle to tackle shortage of PPE
A father-sons team has produced over 1,000 face shield frames to date for the PPE-Hub and a further 300 full face shields, which have been donated to front line medical staff in hospitals, nursing homes and GP practices.
27 Apr 2020
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Meet Violet – the robot on a mission to tackle COVID-19
Violet harnesses ultraviolet (UV-C) light as a virus-destroying weapon and when deployed has the added benefit of limiting direct exposure of front-line cleaning staff to harmful pathogens.
25 Apr 2020
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Experts release videos to help parents teach young children at home
The videos, which were released on UNESCO World and Copyright Book Day, aim to support literacy at home in a simple way and are targeted at children in early primary school and their parents.
24 Apr 2020
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Vitamin D: a factor determining severity in COVID-19, new TILDA research
There are significant discrepancies in mortality rates related to Vitamin D levels at different latitudes globally; the high prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in Northern Hemisphere countries; and the possible role of Vitamin D in suppressing the severe inflammatory responses seen in very ill COVID-19 patients and in COVID-19 deaths.
23 Apr 2020
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