Hartford HealthCare’s Life Star critical care helicopter touched down on Robin L. Sheppard Field in September as part of Wellness Week, allowing members of the campus community to get up close and personal with the aircraft and to meet its pilot.
Professor Kent Dunlap’s published The Neck: A Natural and Cultural History, an aptly titled book about the “300-million-year tour” of the neck’s role in animal evolution and human culture.
Nominations for the Brownell Prize—made possible by a gift from the late Paul H. Briger ’61, P’87—can be submitted through Friday, March 7, 2025.
For her lasting contributions to this research area, LeWinn, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, received the Trinity College President’s Medal for Science and Innovation in October 2024.
HartBeat Ensemble held six performances in October 2024 at the Austin Arts Center’s Goodwin Theater.
Two recent graduates—Sarah Durkee ’24 and Felix Thomspon ’24—recently were awarded Fulbright grants.
For the second consecutive year, Trinity has earned distinction in two diversity-related areas.
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The Mark Twain House & Museum, just about two miles from the Trinity College campus, showcases the restored 25-room, 11,500-square-foot home where the prolific author and humorist lived with his family from 1874 to 1891.
Read about sibling volunteers, Rachel Schneider Mehta ’95 and Jake Schneider ’04, and their connection to the College.
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Amanda J. Guzmán, assistant professor of anthropology and co-director of Trinity’s Center for Caribbean Studies, has been named as a fellow for a new research project hosted by Hunter College’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO).
Trinity College recently was accepted to the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration, enabling Assistant Professor of Physics Eyal Schwartz to continue researching ways to optimize the detectors that track gravitational waves and new astrophysical phenomena.
Ralph Moyer, Scovill Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, recently donated textile samples to Philadelphia’s Science History Institute, a museum dedicated to the history of science.
Every year since 1999—with the exception of 2020 because of the pandemic—Trinity students have fanned out across Greater Hartford to take part in a day of service.
