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Campus NEWS
A SELECTION OF NEWS FROM AROUND THE CAMPUS
Trinity Shines at the Olympic Games
THE WATER CUBE, a groundbreaking development of the National Aquatic Centre in Beijing was a prominent feature at the Olympic Games. Its design was based on the geometric principle of bubble packing developed by two Trinity College Dublin academics.
In 1993, Denis Weaire F.T.C.D., F.R.S. (1987) and Robert Phelan B.A., Ph.D. (1993) of the School of Physics made a landmark discovery in foam physics, and created a new ideal structure of foam. The Weaire-Phelan structure inspired the design of the Olympic Games' iconic building, the Water Cube by structural engineer Tristram Carfrae. The walls of the new building consist of a framework of steel beams which represent the edges of the bubbles in the ideal foam and multiwalled plastic cushions cover its surface.
(Picture: Photo of the building)
TRINITY JOINS iTUNES U
IN JUNE 2008 Trinity became the first university in Ireland and one of the first in Europe to launch its own iTunes U site, featuring free access to audio and video files on course material, public lectures and presentations and highlights of college life.
The teaching impact of this project will include delivering easy 24 hour access to educational material, distance learning, providing memory aids for students, pre-recording lectures to make actual face-to-face teaching more discussion based and supplementing lectures given during core contact hours.
Visit Trinity College Dublin on iTunes U at
www.itunes.tcd.ie.
(Picture: Screen shot of the web site)
TRINITY BECAME THE FIRST UNIVERSITY IN IRELAND TO LAUNCH AN ITUNES U SITE
TCD RESEARCH RANKED SECOND IN GLOBAL IMMUNOLOGY
Publications in immunology by Trinity College researchers for the period 2000-2006 have led to Ireland being ranked second in the world in terms of citations per paper, according to Lab Times.
Commenting on the news, Professor Luke O'Neill B.A., F.T.C.D. (1985), Head of the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, said: “Very exciting research is being carried out in Trinity which is helping in the effort to find new treatments for diseases involving the immune system, such as TB, malaria and inflammatory bowel disease, and also in the effort to find new vaccines. It is especially rewarding to see our work being recognised in this way.” For more information see
www.medicine.tcd.ie/immunology.
IRELAND’S LARGEST CHARITY BOOK SALE
Over 30,000 items, including books, texts, novels, pamphlets and journals, were on sale at the 19th Annual Trinity Second-hand Book Sale, which took place in April. It is the largest charity book sale in Ireland, with all books generously donated by staff, graduates and friends of the College. For information on next year’s book sale, email
booksale@tcd.ie.
(Picture: Photo of the book sale)
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