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CONTENTS Remembering philanthropist Chuck Feeney 4 Alumni & Campus News 8 The Hist achieves a Guinness World Record 14 Golden era of empowerment at Trinity 16 The evolution of global health 20 Inspirational leaders at Trinity’s disAbility Hub 22 An Cailín Ciúin 24 The inaugural Alumni vs Phil student debate 27 Unlocking mysteries of the deep 28 Portal - Trinity’s innovation space in Silicon Docks 30 Let’s row with it 32 Ryan Baird rises to greatness 34 Katie Mullan’s Olympic dreams 36 Staff vs Student cricket clash 38 Touchdowns and traditions 39 Meet fourth year Dental Science student, Inez 40 Shedding light on Bram Stoker 42 The Key to success on world stages 44 The gift of the gab 46 Lifelong learning at Trinity 48 Mario Rosenstock on making an impressionist 50 The Trinity Centre for the Book 52 Festive events for Trinity alumni & friends 54 Elevate your career 55 Trinity’s worldwide alumni network 56 Inspiring Ideas @ Trinity webinars 58 Discover your alumni benefits 59 Trinity Development & Alumni, East Chapel, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland T: +353 (0)1 896 2088 | E: alumni@tcd.ie | W: tcd.ie/alumni
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Welcome to the autumn issue of Trinity Today With Michaelmas term under way and students back on campus, we’re delighted to be featuring so many inspiring student voices in this issue, including athletes Katie Mullan and Ryan Baird who combine studying in Trinity Business School with the highest sporting ambitions: the Olympics and the Rugby World Cup. Multidisciplinary research remains at the heart of the Trinity Education and in these pages we showcase some exceptional research by Trinity people across science, health sciences and the arts. We hear from the Trinity marine biologists who are confounding assumptions to establish that the basking shark is warm-blooded, and from Professor Jarlath Killeen who throws light on the student career of Bram Stoker and how it influenced the creation of his epic anti-hero, Dracula. Visiting Professor & Writer- in-Residence, Conrad Keating, discusses his latest book on Norwegian immunologist, Tore Godal, ‘the quiet colossus of global health’. As ever, we take enormous pride in the achievements of you, our graduates and we’re delighted to be highlighting some of these achievements in music, entertainment, medicine and finance, and to be sharing the stories of the remarkable graduates, true role models in overcoming adversity, whose portraits are currently displayed in Trinity’s disAbility hub. As we went to press, the sad news had just come in of the death of Chuck Feeney. Few individuals in history have done more to transform education in Trinity, in Ireland, and globally. His generosity is legendary and, for once, this overused phrase is strictly accurate. His biographer, Conor O’Clery, details here how their unique relationship developed over the years. I hope you enjoy reading it and are as inspired as I have been by the astonishing example of this modest Irish-American who made a fortune, and gave it all away. Warm regards, Kate Bond Chief Advancement Officer, Trinity College Dublin
