When you embark on a STEM course as a woman, you are aware from the start that although the gender balance in STEM leadership and mentoring roles has greatly improved in recent decades, the number of women in leadership positions …
Lucy Fitzsimmons is the SciTech co-Editor of Trinity News, and a Junior Sophister student of Chemical Sciences.
European Researchers’ Night at Trinity brings research into public eye
The move to virtual leaves no shortage of research-related events and fun
European Researchers’ Night is an annual initiative that aims to bring researchers and their work into the public eye and to encourage those from all backgrounds to engage with research. Last year over 1.6 million people attended European Researchers’ night …
Trinity research shows polio causes previously unknown changes to the brain
The research could impact drug development and patient rehabilitation for polio, and similar neurological diseases
Trinity research on the effect of polio on the nervous system has unearthed newly found changes to the brain caused by the disease.
Polio, now a rare condition in most parts of the world thanks to a highly effective vaccine, …
Trinity biodiversity start-up wants to change the way we garden
Students aim to transform lawn spaces into eco “food forests”
If you’re looking for an idea on how to creatively use garden space to help our changing climate, three Trinity students have it. The project is aptly named “No Mow Gardens” and strives to move away from a culture of …
Could AI help students pick their CAO courses?
A UCC startup hopes to help students make the difficult choice by analysing past data
What CAO courses to put on their list is arguably the hardest decision students have to make in the course of their secondary education. At the time, the list of third-level courses seems to be fixing the course of their …
Trini-Screen: How research at Trinity’s Covid-19 screening programme could accelerate testing
The service uses LAMP analysis techniques which, when used alongside current HSE methods, could get results back faster
Trini-Screen, Trinity’s own campus-based Covid-19 screening programme, is still in its early days, but with backing from campus residents, it has the potential to change the way we test for the virus in the future.
Plans for on-campus testing were …
Green Labs in Trinity: working towards sustainable science
Trinity PhD students are working together to change outdated and unsustainable lab practices
Science labs are some of the most waste intensive workplaces in the world, and the Trinity labs are certainly not exempt from this. The average science lab uses 10 times more energy per annum than the average office space, and …
The Conscious Cup Campaign: Reducing disposables while staying Covid-safe
The provost’s sustainability advisor explains how we can make sustainable changes on campus
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen an unfortunate return in the popularity of disposables: coffee cups, food containers, and masks to name a few. As the world began to slow to its pre-lockdown halt it was …
Trinity researchers sequence genomes of Irish Vikings and uncover Norwegian origins
The research busts the blonde haired, blue-eyed Viking image and shows that natives also adopted the Viking way of life
Irish Viking genomes have been sequenced for the first time by a group of researchers from Trinity and the National Museum of Ireland. The research was part of a wider, six-year-long study of Viking genomes published today in the leading …
New material created by Trinity team could increase efficiency of data storage
The material has the potential to increase the capacity of the global fibre optic network tenfold
Trinity researchers from the School of Physics and the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) have created a new material which has enabled them to perform magnetic switching at ultra-fast speeds. This could have significant effects on …