It was an emotional, yet fun afternoon at Trinity on Thursday, as more than 150 members of the college community came out for “Trinity Stands with Boston,” a 2.62 mile run organized by senior Anastasia Edwards, who ran in the 2013 Boston Marathon.  The purpose of the event was to honor the victims, support the runners, and to stand by the spirit of Boston after the tragic attack at this year’s marathon.  Click here to see photos from the event.

Click here to watch a short video recapping a trip that Trinity students took to Washington D.C., organized by Trinity’s Career Development Center.  The purpose of the trek is for Trinity students to network and learn from successful alumni working in a broad range of career fields.  For more on Career Development at Trinity, visit: www.trincoll.edu/academics/careerdevelopment.

This month, Trinity College students, faculty and staff gathered on the Cave Patio for the 12th annual Take Back the Night march and rally.  In addition to speakers President Jimmy Jones and Assistant Football Coach Lew Acquarulo, students read survivors’ testimonies, marched through the library and down the Long Walk, performed a cappella and gospel music, introduced the Male Ambassadors program and ended the evening with dancing to “Break the Chain,” the One Billion Rising anthem performed globally on February 14, 2013, to honor the power of survivors.  For more photos, click here.
(photo by Nick Lacy) 

In this photo, a panel of Trinity students speak to about 100 accepted students at VIP days in Cinestudio.  They had the opportunity to ask current students about college life.  The panel ended with current students offering advice that they wish they had received before going to college.  For the Admitted Students page for #TrinColl2017, visit: http://www.trincoll.edu/Admissions/admitted/Pages/default.aspx
 (photo by Nick Lacy)

Students unwind on the Long Walk Quad with some slacklining. 
(photo by Abbey Schlangen ’16)

This photo, taken by student photographer Abbey Schlangen ’16, is a view through the Fuller Arch, taken from the quad-side, facing west into the sun, at about 7 p.m.  “It was so warm out, people were outside grilling on the quad, and I was heading over to The Mill for a faculty lecture. Some students were hanging out just outside the arch and it looked cool with the sun creating a silhouette,” Schlangen said about the shot.

It’s opening day for Major League Baseball, and theater scenes from this short ESPN video about Who’s On First?, featuring Jimmy Fallon and Dan Aykroyd, was shot on Trinity’s campus at the Cinestudio movie theater.  Baseball and Trinity have strong ties. Louis Fenn Wadsworth, who graduated in 1844, is speculated to be one of the inventors of the game of baseball.   In addition, Trinity’s baseball program, which has produced several MLB draft picks, holds the longest winning-streak in Div. III history with 44 straight wins in 2008 en route to a National Championship. Their .978 winning percentage (45-1) set a new NCAA record in any division in any sport.

Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, talked on the importance of athletics in education and drew parallels from his time as a Div. I basketball player at Princeton University.  Hyland and the Princeton Tigers went to the equivalent of the “March Madness Sweet 16” when he was a player, and his experiences led him to Trinity, where he argues that athletics can play a critical role in the development of a student.  The talk was part of the Mill’s Faculty Lecture Series.  Click here to listen to Drew Hyland’s talk.

 Eric R. Fossum ’79, Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, delivered a presentation Wednesday, March 6, entitled, “Inside Your Camera: The Science and Technology of Digital Image Sensors.” Fossum invented, developed and commercialized the CMOS image sensor now used in billions of camera phones, webcams, DSLRs, video cameras, swallowable pill cameras, and dental x-ray sensors. He holds more than 180 patents worldwide and has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the Space Technology Hall of Fame. At Trinity, he majored in physics and engineering before earning his Ph.D. at Yale University.
Click here to listen to Fossum’s talk at Trinity:  Eric Fossum.

This semester, Todd Markelz ’01, global manager of Google’s Web Studio, spoke to Trinity students as part of a career development presentation.  Markelz advised students to prepare for the job market by taking advantage of all Trinity has to offer, and encouraged them to be curious.  He recalled some of his involvement and memories at Trinity, as a track and field athlete and as a computer science student, creating web projects on the side.  Markelz challenged students to tackle computer science, a high-demand field, and spoke to a computer science class after his presentation. Marklez’s team at Google is dedicated to building simple yet effective web sites to market Google products and services in over sixty countries around the world.  For a full photo gallery, click here.  For more on career development at Trinity, click here.