The Moveable Joints (above), Trinity’s student improv comedy group, recently performed for their classmates at Washington Room in Mather Hall, before the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) took the stage.  UCB (below) is a New York and Los Angeles based comedy/improv theater group considered to be a breeding ground for top-level writing/comedic talent.  For more on UCB, visit: http://www.ucbtheatre.com/

Students, faculty, and staff filled the Washington Room in Mather Hall to watch their peers in a “Dancing with the TrinStars” competition, which was won by Martha Burke O’Brien, Director of the Health Center, and Gaurav Inder Singh Toor ’14. The event included performances by students paired off with staff or faculty, who were scored by a panel of judges from the Trinity community. For a photo gallery, and to watch the event in its entirety, visit: http://bit.ly/hY2LFS  (Photo by Jeanika Browne-Springer ’12)

These photos were taken at a music performance in Hamlin Hall at Trinity College on March 11, 2011. Dan Román, Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity, composed and conducted works performed by Steve Larson (viola); Carlynn Savot (violoncello); Pi-Hsun Shih (piano); Annie Trépanier (violin); and Katalin Viszmeg (violin). Román integrates elements of folkloric music from the Caribbean, in particular that of his native Puerto Rico, with the mechanics of minimalism and the aesthetics of postmodern art. His music has been performed in Puerto Rico, South America, Spain, France, Austria, Italy, and throughout the United States.  Photos by Nick Lacy. For more on Dan Román’s work, visit: www.foreversound.com.

Tom Condon, assistant editorial page editor at The Hartford Courant, presents Judy Dworin, Professor of Theater and Dance at Trinity, with a Tapestry Award for her work with children of incarcerated parents.  The award was presented before a performance of “In This House” at Kinsella Magnet School of the Performing Arts.  The award is presented annually to an organization and an individual that “excel in building bridges of understanding.”  For more on Dworin’s work and the award, visit: http://bit.ly/e2MPxH      (photo by Nick Lacy)

This slideshow features photos by students in Prof. Christoph Geiss’s first-year seminar, Landscape Photography & Atmospheric Phenomena. The images are on display at the Mather Art Space in Mather Hall.  For more information on Environmental Science at Trinity, visit https://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/Study/EnvironmentalScience/. 

This photo was taken on a recent trip to a local challenge course, where students had the opportunity to zipline with trained professionals.  The Student Activities Office and Quest Program offer recreation opportunities to students throughout the year. Popular trips also include rock climbing and hiking.  (Photo by Leuvis Olivero and edited by Josh Cantor)

For a complete photo gallery, visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycollege/sets/72157625756275148/.

Trinity looks forward to 2011 and reflects on the many great moments at the College in 2010.   For more photos, visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycollege/sets/.

Music courtesy of Rumblefish Liscensing Store: “Through the Winter” (Instrumental) by The Woodlands.  To submit an instrumental to be considered for use in a future Trinity College multimedia presentation, email trincoll.communications@gmail.com.   

At the end of the fall semester, Trinity students studying Econometrics presented posters from their research spanning a vast field of topics.  Nine student groups focused individual projects based on a specific question.  Subjects addressed topics ranging from the effect of the passage of the Clean Air Act, to student bullying, to the effect of injuries on athletes careers.  (Photo by Rita Law)

Between games against UMass-Boston and Babson College on Saturday, the Trinity men’s ice hockey team visited Perkins School for the Blind where they were given a tour of the school and learned about the history of the institution.  They also took part in interactive activities, learning what some of the challenges that visually impaired individuals go though on a daily basis.  “It was a truly valuable experience for our players,” said Head Coach David Cataruzolo, whose parents are both legally blind and have worked at Perkins since 1960.  For a 2008 Hartford Courant article on Coach Cataruzolo and his parents, click here.
For more on the Perkins School for the Blind, click here.
(photo by Ron Lemieux) 

Above: Christopher Houlihan ’09 at a 2008 rehearsal with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.  This week, Houlihan was featured on American Public Media’s Pipedreams.

From the program: Christopher Houlihan was a 12-year-old middle school student when he began organ lessons with John Rose at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.  He won the high-school division of the Schweitzer Competition at age 15, and by the time he enrolled as a freshman at Trinity, his pals were so enthusiastic about his playing that they formed a club, the “Houli-Fans”, which now is a world-wide presence on Facebook.  Check him out there as you listen to this darkly dramatic prelude to Maurice Durufle’s Suite for Organ, Opus 5, recorded at All Saints Episcopal Church, Worcester, Massachusetts by our Twenty-Something soloist Christopher Houlihan. (Photo by Jon Lester)