Dr John Kennedy, Prof. Wolfgang Schmitt, and Matthew Chersich have secured Environmental Protection Agency funding to support related research. The EPA Research Programme is a Government of Ireland initiative funded by the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment.

Political conflict is high on the world news agenda with rising participation in protests against government policy and unethical practices . But what can the past tell us about the long-term impacts of political conflict?

Trinity's Provost and President Dr Linda Doyle said: "The rankings news encourages us to be even bolder in our ambition for Trinity and, indeed, for Ireland - an ambition that should be championed and defended regardless of the rankings.

Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant "exoplanets" form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in extraordinary detail.

The discovery will help scientists now explore the important role of "queuosine", a microscopic molecule first discovered in the 1970s, in cancer and human health. An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Florida, has cracked a decades-old mystery in human biology: how our bodies absorb a micronutrient that we rely on for everything from healthy brain function to guarding against cancer.

Dermot Smurfit, renowned osteoporosis expert Moira O'Brien, and Sir Donnell Deeny also all received Trinity's highest honour from Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre.

With her presentation, called "Triggering Healing: Materials that outsmart Brain Cancer", Almudena had emerged victorious from the final of Trinity's internal 3MT competition, which took place in March.

Trinity's Centre for Forced Migration Studies recently hosted the 27th Wole Soyinka Lecture, titled "Building Resilient, Cohesive Communities and the Challenges of Global Migration". The event brought together 200 attendees from many different countries and emerged from a powerful collaboration between the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), founded by the conference's guest of honour Professor Wole Soyinka and six students in 1952, and Trinity's Centre for Forced Migration Studies.