Medal for Fossum
Alumnus and former Trinity College Trustee Eric Fossum ’79, H’14 received Trinity College’s first President’s Medal for Science and Innovation during the Spring Bicentennial Symposium: Reflection and Action on February 28, 2024.
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Along the Walk
Carmen Leslie-Rourke ’82, P’21
Leslie-Rourke never turns down new opportunities to help the College. “I love Trinity,” she says. “Anything that is for Trinity, I will always say yes.”
Food N Stuff
Trinity College has opened a food pantry—Food N Stuff—on the lower level of Mather Hall, offering free, unopened, nonperishable food items as well as hygiene products to ensure students have access to these goods throughout the academic year.
Entrepreneurial success
Students at Trinity College’s Summit Innovation Challenge in January presented new inventions designed as part of a fellowship that gets them thinking critically and creatively about solving real-world problems.
Park Street Library @ the Lyric
Just north of the Trinity College campus, stands the relatively new location for the largest and one of the most used of Hartford Public Library’s seven branches.
Faculty members retiring
2024 marks the completion of the final year of teaching for 9 Trinity College faculty members.
Bantams = best
Trinity College’s women’s squash team won the 2023–24 Howe Cup Collegiate Squash Association (CSA) national championship by downing Princeton University 6–2 in the finals, held in Philadelphia on March 3.
Galbraith honored
Trinity College Director of Athletics Drew Galbraith was named a recipient of the 2023–24 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Athletics Director of the Year Award for Division III in March.
Delano in prestigious art exhibition
Pablo Delano, Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts, was tapped earlier this year to participate in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened in Venice, Italy, in April.
Top Fulbright producer
Trinity College has been named a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. Students for the 2023–24 academic year.
Letters
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The Plumb Memorial Carillon
The 30-bell instrument was installed in the Trinity Chapel in 1931 during the building’s construction and then presented by the Reverend Canon John F. Plumb, Trinity Class of 1891, who also was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree in 1940.
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