Pictured above, Trinity students support efforts to end hunger and raise awareness by eating portions of meals relative to the distribution of food in the world.  The event was sponsored by Amnesty International: Trinity College Chapter.  Proceeds were donated to Oxfam America and to the Hartford […]

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Listen to the Accidentals sing “Good Old A Cappella” This photo is from a performance by the Accidentals, an all-male a Cappella group at Trinity, who sang along with the Wheaton Whims at a recent Hamlin Hall concert.  The above audio file is a cut from the group’s 2009 album, Wild Ass.  For more on the Accidentals, […]

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This photo was taken last weekend at The Allan K. Smith Writing Center, which has now held two write-ins at Trinity as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).  NaNoWriMo is an organization that encourages writers to dedicate a month (November) to sitting down and writing a 50,000 word novel.  Writers register online at nanowrimo.org and […]

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                      Sarah Kacevich ’13, one of several Amnesty student organizers of “Pizzapalooza,” a blind pizza taste test on campus, presents a manager at First and Last restaurant with a certificate recognizing the winner of the “Best Specialty Pizza” category.  Harry’s Pizza in West Hartford was chosen for “Best Cheese […]

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Each year, the Trinity men’s and women’s swimming and diving team participates in the Hour of Power, in memory of Ted Mullin, a swimmer at Carleton College, who lost his battle with a rare form of sarcoma.  The Hour of Power was Ted’s favorite set as a swimmer.  It is a full 60 minutes of […]

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The Trinity’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies presented its second workshop, “Weird Noises and Beautiful Sounds.” This video includes excerpts from the event’s featured panelists, Dan Roman, assistant professor of music at Trinity; Mitch Polin, associate professor of theatre and dance at Trinity; and Vivek Bald, assistant professor of writing and digital media at the Massachusetts […]

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Amanda Gomez and Karla Rodriguez, sixth grade students in the Vision Academic Mentoring Program (VAMP) at the Hartford Magnet Middle School, participate in the bi-annual physics fair at Trinity College.  Students from the middle school were exposed to physics-related projects and experiments, and were accompanied by Trinity physics students, who were on hand to provide guidance and […]

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Robert Kirschbaum, Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity, received a Faculty Research Grant in support of his print folio/artist’s book, “The 42-Letter Name.”  The folio consists of forty-two images, reflecting the forty-two letters of one of the secret names of God, an acrostic made of the first letter of each word in a nearly 2,000 […]

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Trinity recently dedicated its new tennis facility to legendary coach, Paul Assaiante.  The courts are complete with a blue surface, stands, and lighting.  At the opening reception, congratulatory notes from tennis greats Billie Jean King, a past recipient of an honorary degree from Trinity, and Stan Smith, were read aloud.  Assaiante is the winningest coach in Trinity history, […]

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Andrew Walsh, associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, recently delivered the annual Limpitlaw Lecture in Religion. Entitled “Protestants, Catholics and the Contest to Define American Identity in Late 19th Century Hartford,” the talk focused on how the large migration of Irish Catholics to Hartford clashed […]

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