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Trinity College Appoints the First Woman Provost

Published: - Apr 28, 2021 Located in Dublin and with a history of 429 years, Trinity College named its 45th Provost of the University that will be starting on August 2021. The Woman Post | Catalina Mejía Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. Linda Doyle, who studied electrical engineering at the University of Cork and graduated with her master s degree and Ph.D. from Trinity, was elected at a process concerning student representatives and the Trinity Staff. Doyle is the founder and director at Connect, which is a Science Foundation Research Center promoting future communications. She has been a lecturer at Trinity since the mid-1990s and also worked as dean of research and chaired boards such as the Douglas Hyde Gallery. When interviewed Prof Doyle brought up that she was delighted and excited about being the first woman to assume this prestigious role.

Archbishops laments commodification of university education

  The “commodification” of third level education has been criticised by Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell. Under “pressure to be relevant, universities sometimes lose sight of what led to their foundation and of what their authentic mission consists,” he said. Speaking on Monday morning via video link at an ecumenical service of fellows and scholars at Trinity College, Dublin, Archbishop Farrell commented “many of you will have seen first-hand the threat to languages – ancient and modern, to classics and to the academic study of religion in such an environment”. He said: “Of course, marketable skills are essential, but universities also have to provide enduring values – information, knowledge, even wisdom need to find a right relationship to the earth ‘and all its inhabitants,’ as it says in the Psalm (Ps 24:1).

Three Trinity researchers win European Research Council Advanced Grants

Trinity News and Events 22nd April 2021 22nd April 2021 Three researchers from Trinity – Professors Jennifer McElwain, Seamus Martin and Daniel Kelly – have won highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants. These awards, announced annually and valued at approximately €2.5 million each, go to established, leading principal investigators with a significant record of research achievements over the last decade. These three awards now bring the total number of ERC Investigator Grants awarded at Trinity under the Horizon 2020 funding programme to 44, with a total award value of €83 million. The funding supports ground-breaking projects with the potential to make major impact within a research field.

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