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Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement

Trinity is recognised as a world leader in ageing Atlantic Philanthropies has now announced as one of their five ≥ Alumni support research, thanks in great part to the foundation, Atlantic legacy projects before the foundation closes down activities, Philanthropies which over the past decade has given around the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI). This is a 15 year joint, Trinity in many vital ways, €25 million for specific ageing projects and €40 million for single programme between two partner institutions — Trinity infrastructural projects which have enabled the University to and University California San Francisco. The aim of GBHI is to including through financial put in place a comprehensive ageing programme. This endow- train global leaders in brain health by the rapid translation of ment has helped Trinity with leveraging further funding (about research in neuroscience and ageing into policy. Trinity has contributions, mentoring €185 million), and emerging as a key partner in one of the EU’s been awarded about US$70 million. The programme is led by major research projects — InnoLIFE, a consortium of industry, Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology at the Trinity College students, running alumni higher education, and research institutions funded by the Institute of Neuroscience, and Brian Lawlor, Conolly Norman European Institute of Innovation and Technology to develop Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Trinity’s School of Medicine. associations, involvement in projects, products, training and services for ‘Healthy Living and Active Ageing’. clubs and societies, and advice and expertise in their fields.

Trinity College — The Annual Review 2014–2015 10.0 Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement

LEFT – Chief Executive of Jones Engineering Group, Eric Kinsella BELOW TOP – Benefactors’ Wall in the Dining Room (second from the right), and his wife Barbara with (l-r) Head of the 10 School of Engineering, Prof Brian Foley, Librarian and College Archivist, BELOW BOTTOM – Film Director, Lenny Abrahamson, crime writer John Helen Shenton, SU Education Officer, Katie Byrne, and Students’ Union Connolly, former Judge Catherine McGuinness and VP of Intel’s Internet President, Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne of Things, Philip Moynagh, Alumni Award 2015 recipients

Supporting Education and Research In addition to the study space, the Kinsellas have permanently endowed scholarships for up to six engineering students to study in Trinity. Alumni Sam and Ellen Lam supported the establishment of the Associate Professor in Chinese Studies post in the new Trinity Centre for Asian Studies. Alumnus Sean Reynolds and his wife Sarah are funding a scholarship to support a US student to enrol in the School of Engineering in 2015, and alumni Eoin and Cliona Murphy support scholarships on the M.Phil in Chinese Studies in our Centre for Asian Studies. Such scholarships help position Trinity as a leading choice internationally.

Alumni Engagement High profile alumni events were held on, and off, campus all year. At the Alumni Awards in March we celebrated four outstanding alumni, important role models for our students: film director, Lenny Abrahamson, crime writer, John Connolly, former judge Catherine McGuinness and vice president of Intel’s Internet of Things, Philip Moynagh. The Alumni Weekend This is one of the most generous philanthropic projects when, with colleague John Scott, he established that taking in August saw some 400 alumni and their families return to anywhere in the world, and Trinity is proud to be associated folic acid during pregnancy could prevent neural tube defects. Trinity, many of them traveling from far afield. Throughout the with Atlantic Philanthropies and its single benefactor Charles This finding was adopted as a preventative measure in the USA year, the Provost and other college officers have been engaging F. Feeney, whose philosophy of ‘Giving while Living’ has inspired in 1998, and thereafter internationally. As well as this major with alumni associations on trips abroad, from Tel Aviv to San philanthropists like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. We look contribution to world health, Professor Weir has given quietly Francisco, and from Boston to Mumbai. forward to helping deliver solutions for the ageing population and generously to Trinity and St James’s Hospital since the Alumni support Trinity in many vital ways, including in general, and in the area of cognition specifically. 1960s gifts totalling over €1.5 million. through financial contributions, mentoring students, running Terry and Marjorie Neill, Trinity graduates whose alumni associations, involvement in clubs and societies, and Benefactors through the Centuries support for Trinity’s leadership in teaching and research in the advice and expertise in their fields. In 2013 the University honoured those whose cumulative Arts and Humanities has now been benefiting the University The University greatly values the interest and sup- philanthropic giving has had such a transformational effect on for over a decade is deeply appreciated. Terry and Marjorie’s port of all Trinity alumni, and this year we strengthened Trinity Trinity since 1592 by inscribing the names of these ‘Benefactors latest gift is to promote the activities of the Trinity Long Room Development & Alumni, the office that serves as the main through the Centuries’ on the Benefactors’ Wall in the Dining Hub and they wish that their gift will encourage not only others interface between the graduates and supports and Trinity. Room. In 2014 a further seven names were added to the sev- to give, but also more academics to engage with philanthropic Trinity Development & Alumni has the support of enty originally inscribed, and this academic year, three more supporters. the new Dean of Development, Professor Gerard McHugh, exceptional donations were commemorated. We recognise the They are joined on the Benefactors Wall by Eric appointed in early 2015, and resources are in place to implement vision and generosity of the following donors in supporting and Barbara Kinsella, whose generous endowment has made high quality outreach activities which will lead to increased high-quality education and cutting-edge research here in Trinity: possible a 24-hour library study space, accommodating 600 alumni participation, as well as meeting the expectations of the Donald G. Weir served as Regius Professor of Physic students for use throughout the year in the Ussher Library. The wider Trinity community. Alumni can now avail of new benefits, in Trinity for many decades and as head of the Department of new area is named Kinsella Hall in honour of Eric Kinsella’s including free Wi-Fi on campus, assistance with individual Clinical Medicine in 1977. He achieved international renown parents, William and Kathleen. class reunions, and access to the Library.

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