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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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, …