Chuck Feeney provides operational funding to establish Trinity Foundation as the primary fundraising agency for the college AP gives major grant for residential accommodation in Trinity Hall to provide nearly 1,000 bedrooms for students. AP also helps build the new James Ussher Library AP supports senior academic posts, including professorships in Contemporary Irish History, International Business, Economics of Globalisation and Childhood Research AP funds programme of Bio-Psycho-Social Research in Dementia Care for Trinity PhD and Masters students AP funds Trinity researchers to provide the research evidence base for the development of a national dementia strategy by the Department of Health Joint funding with University College Dublin enables the development of evidence-based palliative care in Ireland 1994 1998 1999 2000 2000 –2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2014 2015 The national Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) launches with an investment of €75 million from Chuck Feeney’s foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies (AP), which also gives support to the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience launches with funding from AP and the government. In 2009 AP provides further investment for neural engineering and the Neuro-Enhancement for Independent Lives programme AP funds the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) and the new Sports Centre on campus A gift from AP launches the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) as a pioneering programme to promote the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in education and society Joint funding with NUI Galway sets the stage for the national dialogue on intergenerational solidarity and justice in Ireland Atlantic Philanthropies invests US$177 million in the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), a partnership between Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco to tackle dementia worldwide. Trinity’s portion of the grant represents the largest single philanthropic grant in Irish state history
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