Trinity Highlights for 2023
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Ancient Irish volcano offers new clues about the development of its modern-day, active “brothers and sisters”
The research team, led by scientists from Trinity College Dublin and including those from the UK, USA, and the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, studied rocks across Carlingford Mountain which formed as the magma system inflated beneath the volcano over thousands of years.
31 July 2026
Research|Science
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Ancient genomes reveal how European colonisation brought smallpox to the Americas
Smallpox, caused by variola virus, played a major role in the catastrophic population decline experienced by Indigenous peoples after European arrival.
31 July 2026
Research|Science
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Trinity hosts EU Research and Innovation Ministers in the Old Library
European Research and Innovation Ministers and policy makers visited Trinity College Dublin this week to visit the Long Room and view the Book of Kells, the exquisite medieval manuscript housed in Trinity's Old Library.
23 July 2026
Innovation|Research|Society
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Trinity-led report: sustainability in healthcare offers huge opportunity
Sustainability in healthcare should not be viewed as a cost, but as an opportunity, according to a new report launched today by Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI).
21 July 2026
Health|Innovation|Sustainability
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Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?
In a world where trust in institutions is mostly in decline, levels of trust in science remain relatively high. Yet at the same time, belief in scientific conspiracy theories, such as hushed-up effects of vaccines or aeroplane “chemtrails”, is also widespread.
20 July 2026
Science|Society
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Trinity team developing environmentally friendly biopesticide to tackle devasting EU crop pest
Scientists from Trinity have secured Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation funding of around €690,000 to develop an environmentally friendly biopesticide to tackle one of the EU’s most financially devastating pest species, the Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle (CSFB).
20 July 2026
Awards and Funding|Environment|Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Are you listening to me? Well, kinda…
Scientists at Trinity have discovered that, for a short period of around one to two seconds, the brain can begin following a new conversation before it has fully let go of the previous one.
17 July 2026
Research|Science
Trinity Highlights from 2023
21 Dec 2023