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 with the existing Yankee Protestant heritage and traditions, reshaping the culture and history of the state’s capital city. 

Wendy Bartlett, head coach of the women’s squash team at Trinity College, was recently interviewed about Trinity’s involvment in an urban squash program.  (video: FOX CT; CTNow.com)

The Hartford Wolf Pack, the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the New York Rangers, recently announced that they will be re-branding themselves as the Connecticut Whale.  At their opening exhibition match against the Albany Devils at the Koeppel Community Sports Center at Trinity College on Wednesday, September 29, the team unveiled their new logo, pictured above.  The team and Trinity College have a strong relationship after partnering on The Ryan Gordon/Hartford Wolf Pack Community Scholars Fund, a permanent fund providing scholarships to Hartford children so that they can enroll in the Learn to Play Ice Hockey Programs at Trinity’s Koeppel Community Sports Center.  For more on the unveiling of the logo, visit: http://www.courant.com/sports/hockey/hc-wolf-pack-0930-20100929,0,5117455.story. 

(Photo courtesy Chris Rutsch)

This photo was taken of the installation of “Margalit and Smith,” a Widener Gallery exhibition running until Oct. 14, 2010 at the Austin Arts Center.  The exhibition features encaustic collage paintings by Nathan Margalit and sculpture by Joe Smith.  A reception and conversation with the artists will be held on Wed., Sept. 29, 2010 from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.  For more information, visit: http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/trinity_news/090710_MargalitSmith.htm

The “Top Dogs” at Trinity welcomed students back with a hot dog cookout at the cave patio at Mather Hall last week.  The event was sponsored by the Offices of Campus Life and Calendar and Special Events.

Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, spoke to Trinity students at the Koeppel Community Sports Center on September 3 as part of the First-Year Reading Initiative. 

Michael FitzGerald, Professor and Chair of Fine Arts at Trinity, recently gave a talk entitled “Picasso and America” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  FitzGerald, a Picasso scholar, regularly writes for the Wall Street Journal on the subject of fine art, most recently publishing a review of “Picasso Looks at Degas” at the Clark in Williamstown, Mass.    (Video courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Last night, four U.S. Connecticut Senate candidates debated issues from unemployment to health care in the Washington Room of Mather Hall at Trinity College.  Among the highlights, Rob Simmons announced that he is actively campaigning for the GOP nomination in the Connecticut Senate race.  Simmons joined John Mertens, the nominee of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party and a Trinity professor; Warren Mosler, the nominee of the Independent Party; and Republican challenger Peter Schiff in a debate moderated by Chris Powell, editor of The Journal-Inquirer of Manchester.  The sponsoring group was the Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations.

Work It Off Demo from Humanitarian FOSS Project on Vimeo.

This short video details a new Google Android application developed by Trinity students, Nina Limardo ’11 and Pauline Lake ’13, with new “Google App Inventor” software.  The students entered their application design for health promotion into a nationwide contest as part of an initiative by First Lady Michelle Obama.  To see other application projects the students are working on, visit: http://notes.hfoss.org/index.php/AppInventor.  To see competing applications, or to vote in the Healthy Apps for Kids challenge, visit: http://www.appsforhealthykids.com/application-gallery: