Trinity Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Natalia Gromak has been awarded the title of Professor of RNA Biology by the University of Oxford.

Catherine McMullan, a History undergraduate at Trinity College, is part of the five-student team behind Ictus, which won the £10,000 top prize at StEP's 2026 Demo Day last month. The startup is developing a wearable device for low-cost epileptic seizure detection. In the interdisciplinary team, Catherine is joined by Engineering Science undergraduates Elizaveta Verzhbitskaya and Vivian Lui, Biology undergraduate Nancy Locke and Nanotechnology postgraduate Arya Navab.

Research at the University of Oxford, lead by Trinity’s Dr. Daniel Long and supervised by Prof. Felix Hofmann, has developed a new model that could help engineers better assess the risk of hydrogen embrittlement in components used for hydrogen-powered aircraft.

Trinity College’s Jackson Building has won Best Low Carbon Building of the Year at the 2026 Oxford Property Awards, recognising the College’s ambitious project to decarbonise one of its historic listed buildings.

The award was presented at the OxProp Awards ceremony at Keble College on Thursday 10 September, attended by more than 400 people from across Oxfordshire’s property and built-environment sectors.

Four University of Oxford researchers have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, each worth €1.5 million over a period of up to five years. Two of the recipients are associated with Trinity College.

Trinity Honorary Fellow Professor Charlotte Williams OBE FRS has been awarded the Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Prize 2026, in recognition of her pioneering research into sustainable polymer materials.

We are delighted to share that Professor Janina Dill, Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government, has been named among the winners of the 2026 Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards.

Julius Yam's monograph, Judging for Democracy, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. It is open access, and available to all.

Trinity College has once again been recognised with a Green Impact Beyond Gold Award, the highest level of accreditation within the University of Oxford's Green Impact programme. This prestigious award celebrates teams that have embedded sustainability into their everyday practices and demonstrated exceptional leadership.