BACK TO SCHOOL Samuel Beckett SAMUEL BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL The Samuel Beckett Summer School recently celebrated its fifth birthday at Trinity College Dublin, where Beckett began his intellectual life. The Summer School again offered a programme of lectures and specialist seminars, complemented by social and cultural events each evening. It also featured a vibrant public programme in partnership with one of Dublin’s cultural institutions, the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Next year’s Summer School will take place from August 7-12, 2016. Find out more at www.beckettsummerschool.com 13 TRINITY TODAY CAMPUS NEWS IN SHORT TRINITY WINS LANDMARK ATHENA SWAN AWARDS T rinity has won a bronze institutional Athena Swan award for advancing gender equality. Three of its Schools (Physics, Chemistry, Natural Sciences) have also received landmark bronze awards. The Athena SWAN programme run by the Equality Challenge Unit and implemented by Trinity College aims to advance women’s careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. GREAT FAMINE VOICES T rinity researchers have launched an innovative crowdsourcing project which allows members of the public to contribute and share family stories and documents about the Famine and emigration in Ireland. The Great Famine Voices project is calling on the public to share letters, documents, objects and family memories on its website, www. greatfaminevoices.ie, to help build a comprehensive picture of what it was like to live in Famine Ireland or emigrate and make a new life elsewhere. GIRLS GET THE CODE I n May, 90 secondary school girls showcased the computer coding skills that they have learned to solve real-world problems, create computer games and develop apps. The girls graduated from the CodePlus Programme at a special event in Trinity. The Bridge21 CodePlus Programme is a new pilot initiative supported by ICS Skills, which aims to interest post-primary girls in computer programming and boost the number of women engaging with the field of computer science.
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