Our very own Professor Mathew Campbell, of the Neurovascular Genetics Laboratory in Trinity College, Dublin, is leading the way in understanding the blood brain barrier (BBB) and how it functions in health and disease. Dysfunction of the BBB has long …
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Ancient DNA analysis by Trinity team reveals women-centred society in Iron Age Britain
Findings of widespread matrilocality evidence female empowerment in this Celtic society
A team of ancient DNA researchers at Trinity have found evidence of matrilocality — a societal system in which married men migrate to live with their female partner’s community — in Iron Age Britain. The study was published in the …
Virtual hospitals, the future of healthcare?
Galway University Hospital’s virtual trial bridges the gap between medicine and engineering
Galway University Hospital (GUH) recently launched a virtual hospital trial in a ground-breaking endeavour bringing engineering and medicine together to rethink healthcare. Speaking with Dr. Derek O’Keeffe, the project’s principal investigator, Trinity News heard how this ongoing innovation is reshaping …
The importance of open science: in conversation with Dr Ailís O’Carroll
Immunology alumna talks science accessibililty and communication
Trinity News sits down with immunology alumna Dr Ailís O’Carroll to discuss her passion for open science and engagement.
The general aim of open science, Dr Ailis O’Carroll explains, “is making knowledge and research as open, as accessible, as equitable …
School of physics celebrates 300 years
A look back on three centuries of teaching
This year marks the 300th anniversary of Trinity’s school of physics. The school, like College itself, has undergone tremendous change since its inception in 1724. Let’s wind back the clock three hundred years and see where we land.
The Erasmus …
Academic responsibility – the biggest dichotomy in Trinity
Teaching standards in Trinity are defined by arrogance and negligence, final year student Conor Coughlan argues
I remember the first time I attended a talk in Trinity. It was the Maths and Physics open day 2013, and I was a naïve 18-year-old Leaving Cert fresh from off a bus from Galway. The defining moment of that …
No place for narratives in science?
Peter Cox debates the important role narratives have to play in the research community.
I recently read The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – a sad admission for a third-year environmental science student. This book is the starting point for anyone interested in environmental conservation, and largely precipitated the entire culture of environmental monitoring …
The Humanities’ Strange STEM Obsession
STEM is for people that have fallen in love with the world and want nothing more than to know it as well as they can
Two articles published by campus publications have bemoaned the reverence in which STEM is held above the Humanities in the last two months alone. The articles, maybe not surprisingly, were written by students of the humanities, and took the position …
Trinity partner with Irish Times for Citizen Science initiative
The initiative will give readers and citizens the opportunity to voice their opinions on scientific topics.
Trinity is partnering with The Irish Times to work on a new Citizen Science initiative from which a number of different projects will be developed and promoted. Members of the public will be asked to fill out a questionnaire based …
A crash course to studying General Science in Trinity
Last year’s junior freshmen give their advice on navigating one of the biggest courses in our university
Last September, the Junior Freshman students of 2016/17 waited in anticipation for their first experience of third level education to begin. General Science differs from many college courses, in that a single time-table is not administered during orientation week.
Instead, …