Trinity College wishes a happy holiday season to people of all faiths.  Enjoy these  holiday videos featuring Trinity students.

The 2013 Chinese New Year is on Sunday, February 10. Trinity students, professors, their families, and other volunteers recently gathered to begin preparation for the celebration. The dragon is symbolic of power, luck, success, and control of the elements.  In Chinese culture, the dragon is equated to success.  More information to follow.
(photo by Abbey Schlangen ’16) 

This week, Econometrics students presented their semester-long research projects to determine answers to student curiosities.   The projects were:  Does where you sit in Econ 101 affect your first test score?; Does it pay-off to pay for performance: An analysis of salary determination and success in four NFL teams; Who is more likely to take a few liberties with the truth?: An analysis of Trinity students’ self-reported test scores; How does first-year academic performance affect the probability that a Trinity student will study abroad?; Which comic books are a good investment?; and How should car manufacturers market their cars?: What consumers value in a car.

The Trinity College Quirks had yet another memorable performance – opening for the Jaimoe Jasssz Band, led by Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson of the Grammy Award-winning Allman Brothers.  In the photo, members of both groups celebrate another exciting performance.

This semester, Hudson Taylor, wrestling coach at Columbia University, three-time All-American Division I wrestler at the University of Maryland, and a prominent straight ally and civil rights activist of LGBT rights, addressed students and athletes at Trinity.  Taylor is descended from a long line of Christian missionaries, including James Hudson Taylor, one of the first Christians to attempt to evangelize China.  Taylor says his family’s strong values taught him a “strong sense of inclusion over exclusion,” which, he says, is a reason he has become such a prominent ally.  Click to listen to the presentation: HudsonTaylor.

Twenty-five members of the Trinity College community spent “A Day in a Wheelchair” to experience what it is like to have a mobility impairment. The idea originated with Kristin Duquette ’13, a human rights major.  According to Duquette and Sean Snyder ’13, who is also a human rights major and an organizer of the event, “A Day in a Wheelchair” was designed to be an empowering and positive experience while shattering the stereotype of what it’s like to be wheelchair-bound.  The goal was for members of the campus community to become aware of the accessible routes on campus and realize that having a disability doesn’t impair one’s contributions.  For a full set of photographs, visit: http://bit.ly/SQst7l.

On November 29, students attended a reception and preview of the new Vernon Social Center, scheduled to open in Fall of 2013.   Tentative plans include new study and recreation spaces, a specialty sandwich shop, a convenience store, a bar, and other amenities, to be shaped with student input from the reception.

This colorful dragon was created by a fourth-grade student at the Learning Corridor’s CREC Montessori Magnet School. The student used paint, beads, small mirrors, and buttons to give the dragon its special look.

The painting is part of an exhibition on display at Broad Street Gallery titled “Dragons and Castles: Works from the CREC Montessori Magnet School,” which opened on November 29, 2012. The exhibition is part of a year-long collaboration between the Montessori school and Trinity’s InterArts Program. You can view more photos from the exhibition opening here.

(photo by Nick Lacy)

Pictured above at Rittenberg Hall, Yipeng Shen, assistant professor of Chinese and International Studies and a member of Trinity Faculty in Residence, presents research on Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize Laureate.  Shen discussed Mo Yan’s literary works, contemporary China, and screened clips of a movie. 
(photo by Travis Kotecco ’14)

Dr. Erin Valentio’s first-year seminar class, “The Information Age and the Digital Divide” did a small exhibition on the school’s rare books collection in the Watkinson library, including this mini-Bible (pictured). Every student was assigned a book: almanacs, old text books, atlases, prayer books, fliers that were once in circulation, or household “doctor” books, and asked to study the physical aspects of these books.  The research was presented in the exhibition, and was written and produced with narratives and for the class blog.   Mini-books, such as this one, are leather-bound and were once manufactured just like larger books.

(photo by Abbey Schlangen ’16)