Pedro Segarra, the second person of Hispanic heritage to serve as mayor of Hartford, delivered an address to Trinity, kicking off four weeks of activities honoring the contributions of Hispanic Americans. Among the events were softball games, a dinner, community service projects, discussion nights, movies and an art exhibition.  The speech and activities were sponsored by La […]

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  Students, faculty, and staff gathered at Mather Hall for a Common Hour panel to discuss the revised Policy Statement on Discrimination, General Harassment and Abuse, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Misconduct, in the Student Handbook.  The language was strengthened to make clear that the College, acting within its legal rights, “will impose sanctions, up to […]

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  This video highlights former Trinity College football star Mickey Kobrosky ’37, who was inducted into the 2011 College Football Hall of Fame Class this summer.  Kosbrosky led the Bantams to a 19-2 record on the gridiron from 1934 to 1936 and played professionally with the New York Giants, and became the first Trinity player or coach […]

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Fans and friends gather with organist Christopher Houlihan ’09 (center) outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on July 10. Houlihan’s performance capped a series of appearances starting in mid-June at two regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists in Oklahoma City, OK, and  Des Moines, IA. Houlihan then traveled to Paris to perform at the […]

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While the campus is in its quiet summer phase, the Megacities of the Yangtze River program in China has been running on all cylinders. This year’s program has enrolled 16 Trinity students from a variety of personal, family, and academic backgrounds and interests, including students from India, Nepal, Burma, and Italy, and is led again […]

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Trinity was one of 15 global sites to host a Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) gathering of volunteer software developers on June 4 and 5, an initiative designed to help find technology solutions for natural and man-made disaster response.      RHoK is a unique collaboration between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank, and is dedicated to […]

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   These photographs of flowers on the Trinity campus were taken by Nancy Fleming, Administrative Assistant to the Departments of Engineering and Computer Science.  Music is entitled “America’s Stonehenge,” by Laura Sullivan.

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James Morrow recently spoke to Trinity students at McCook Hall.  Morrow is the author of Blameless in Abaddon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1996, and has written several other award-winning books, including The Wine of Violence, called “the best short fiction novel published in English in the last ten years” by the American […]

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According to Tony Olivares IDP ’12 (above), students wondered aloud: “who is he?” and “what is he doing?,” as the theater and dance major and sculpture minor painted his entire body as part of a public outdoor performance in celebration of International Dance Day, established by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1982.  “It […]

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On Thursday, April 14, Trinity’s men’s and women’s ice hockey teams took part in the First Annual Skate-A-Thon held the Koeppel Community Sports Center to benefit both the Greater Hartford Community and the Trinity College Community Child Center.  The money raised (current totals are over $3,500) will help provide tuition scholarship assistance to Hartford residents who […]

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