This is a shot of Trinity’s rain garden, right alongside the McCook building on campus.  The garden was planted at the bottom of a small hill, where water often collects after a shower.  In the garden are mums, shrubs, and other water-loving plants.  Rain gardens are most common in urban areas, or areas that don’t have a […]

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Ever wonder where all the Internet on Trinity’s campus comes from? The College operates with three servers and one router. Throughout campus, there are tens of hundreds of “utility closets” that are home to networking wires. Trinity’s Web is interconnected with larger “hubs,” connected by wires that run along/underneath the Connecticut River. For more on […]

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This weekend, Trinity dedicated the new Gates Quad, which has become another point of beauty on Trinity’s campus. This slideshow/video tracks the progress that was made in 90 days this summer to make the transition from Mather Quad to Gates Quad possible.

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  A feathered friend perched on the sill of an office window on the Long Walk to say hello to Trinity.  The campus is no stranger to birds, and specifically juvenile Red-tailed hawks, pictured above.  Professor Joan Morrison says this bird probably hatched just this spring.  “Juvenile hawks frequent campus probably because there is alot […]

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Hartford is gearing up for the 2012 Trinity Samba Fest by brushing up on their dance moves at a samba dance workshop held on Thursday at the Vernon Social Center on the campus of Trinity College.  Trinity students and members of the Hartford community joined to learn the rhythms and patterns of Afro-Peruvian and Puerto Rican dances. The workshop was conducted […]

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D.B. Sweeney, known for his roles in The Cutting Edge, Eight Men Out, and many other films and television shows, voices his support for the Trinity Film Festival, on May 5, 2012. Today is the late deadline for submissions, so make sure to get them in!

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Last week, The Quirks and The Accidentals a Cappella groups, were invited to sing “America the Beautiful,” during the seventh inning stretch of a New Britain Rock Cats game.  The Rock Cats are the AA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major league baseball team.  Trinity’s SGA and Office of Campus Life provided tickets and transportation to […]

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For more on the Trinity Film Festival, visit www.trinityfilmfest.org.  “Like” Trinity Film Festival on Facebook for timely updates: www.facebook.com/TrinityFilmFestival.

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Kristen Duquette ’13 (right) with Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, and Governor of Connecticut, Daniel Malloy, at the Bushnell Center for Performing Arts.  Duquette has set her sights on the Paralympics in London this summer. The qualifying trials are in June in North Dakota, and she will attempt to make the U.S. team in […]

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Trinity students Joseph Laws ’12 and Angela London ’15 (pictured), and Shanice Hinckson ’15 collected signatures from hundreds of their classmates, who pledged support toward the elimination of the word “retard-ed” when used in a derogatory fashion.  Last year, over 300 students signed the pledge, and this year, the Trinity College Best Buddies chapter organizing the […]

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