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Trinity in the News

Below is a list of links to media stories about Trinity College. Titles in red indicate links to full story. Please note some of the URLs may require a login in order to gain access to the article, which is easy to acquire and may or may not require a membership fee.

 

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December 23, 2006 – December 29, 2006

 

Leslie Demangles: On Vodou and Other Haitian Religious Practices

Prodg Entertainment Promotions E-Newsletter – December 2006

Leslie Desmangles was born in Haiti and is currently a professor of religion and international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The talented professor…

 

Movers and Shakers 2006
Connecticut Jewish Ledger – December 28, 2006
It was yet another year of noted accomplishment for West Hartford's Cheryl Greenberg, professor of history at Trinity College in Hartford and director of...

 


December 16, 2006 – December 22, 2006

 

Spending ban may not be ironclad

Press-register (Mobile, AL) – December 18, 2006

"I think members have an incentive to stick to" their pledge, said Diana Evans, a political scientist at Trinity College in Connecticut and author of a book on the political uses of earmarking…

 

Squashing Barriers
Hartford Courant – December 17, 2006
...Yet on a daily basis, Hartford-area residents who hail from 12 countries make their way up the three flights of stairs at Trinity College's Ferris Athletic...

 


December 9, 2006 – December 15, 2006

 

Interfaith families respect, celebrate their holiday traditions
commercialappeal.com – December 14, 2006
...according to a book released this year, "Religion in A Free Market" (Paramount

Market Publishing, $49.95) by professors Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar of

Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...

 

Pinochet's Ironic Legacy, Energized Human Rights
Hartford Courant – December 12, 2006
...Sonia Cardenas is an associate professor of political science at Trinity College in Hartford. She has written extensively on human...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Item banquet speakers share lessons
The Daily Item of Lynn, MA  December 12, 2006
...Tim Kiely worked his magic on the Swampscott High football team before heading off to Trinity College and Eric McGrath honed his skills at Classical and is now...

 

PSU Roundup
Laconia Citizen – December 10, 2006
...6, at Bentley (2:00 pm). HARTFORD, Conn. — Lacey Rose scored her first collegiate hat trick Saturday afternoon to lead Trinity College to an 8-0 victory over...

 


December 2, 2006 – December 8, 2006

 

Environmental change and infectious disease: How new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) – December 7, 2006

[authors:] Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, William Cevallos…Gabriel Trueba, Lee W. Riley, and James Trostle [Professor of Anthropology at Trinity College]…The construction of a new road in a previously roadless area of northern coastal Ecuador provides a valuable natural experiment to examine how changes in the social and natural environment, mediated by road construction, affect the epidemiology of diarrheal diseases…

 

American expert to analyse seaweed
Royal Gazette (Bermuda) – December 6, 2006
... that has washed up on Bermuda’s shores in recent weeks is to be analysed by US-based seaweed expert Dr. Craig Schneider of Trinity College in Connecticut...

 

Trinity Professor Honored For Work
Hartford Courant – December 5, 2006
Paul Lauter, the Allan K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College, has received the American Studies Association's Bode-Pearson...

 

HOLIDAY BOOKS; Art and America

New York Times – December 3, 2006

…by Michael Fitzgerald, accompanies a show that...Curated by Fitzgerald (who teaches art history at Trinity College, Hartford), the show seeks to demonstrate Picasso’s influence on 20th-century American art, and both it and the accompanying book concentrate on Max Weber, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky…

 

What Does It Really Cost Us To Give Unconditionally?
Hartford Courant – December 3, 2006
...Because maybe it all boils down to this: A few years ago, Brigitte Schulz, associate professor in Trinity College's political science department, accompanied...

 

Barry Kosmin - The Scientific Study of Secularism
Point of Inquiry – December 2, 2006
Barry Kosmin is a sociologist, and is research professor in public policy and law at Trinity College. He is co-author of One Nation Under God and author of Religion in a Free Market. Kosmin was also the Principal investigator of the...

 

Left turn at Saddleback Church
Salon – December 2, 2006
..."This counts as a political move," Mark Silk, director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College, told the Chicago...

 


November 25, 2006 – December 1, 2006

 

Obama addresses California megachurch on Friday
San Jose Mercury News – December 1, 2006
...have broader political ramifications, said Mark Silk, director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Another Strong Start For Trinity Under Ogrodnik
Hartford Courant – November 28, 2006
...Trinity, which was 18-6 last season, has played in five NCAA Division III... won four ECAC and two regular-season New England Small College Athletic Conference...

 

Two from Hanover are players of year
Boston Globe – November 26, 2006
...The captains for the women's and men's basketball teams at Trinity (Conn.) College are former Norwell High School All-Scholastic Sarah Cox, who returns for her...

 


November 18, 2006 – November 24, 2006

 

Gather Around The Fire
Hartford Courant – November 23, 2006
... more awake in the world. Irene Papoulis lives in West Hartford with her 10-year-old son and teaches writing at Trinity College.

 

Smells Like School Spirit
Hartford Courant – November 21, 2006
On the safety issue, Jared Hoffman, a senior at Trinity College says he tells parents and kids that it's a safe campus but that, as you would anywhere...

 

Drugs and marriage go together like a horse and carriage

McGill Daily – November 20, 2006

According to James Hughes, a bioethicist at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut some drugs could help jump-start a failing marriage by heightening bonding and trust.

 

The biggest questions ever asked

New Scientist – November 18, 2006

What comes after humans? By James Hughes [Trinity College Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy and Associate Director, Institutional Research and Planning]

All species are fated either to die out or to evolve into something else - all except humans, who have a chance of a transcendent future…

 

American AM, 11/17/06, Highlights
By American AM – November 17, 2006
Guests: Vijay Prashad, Professor and Director, International Studies Program, Trinity College, Author, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, www.ctwo.org, Ehsan Ahrari, CEO, Strategic Paradigms, ...

 

Athletics in the News

 

SMALL COLLEGES JOURNAL
New England Hockey Journal – November 23, 2006
By Dan Hickling. Trinity College had its ECAC championships, and later on a couple of NESCAC titles. It even earned a couple of NCAA...

 


November 11, 2006 – November 17, 2006

 

Nascita del super-uomo (Birth of the Superhuman)

RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana) – November 15, 2006

Vivranno anche mille anni. La loro intelligenza potrà incarnarsi in qualsiasi corpo o in qualsiasi macchina, il loro pensiero sarà liberato da ogni emozione superflua.

(They will live for thousands of years. Their intelligence will be able to exist in any body or machine and their thoughts will be freed from any superfluous emotion.)

[Documentary featuring James Hughes, Trinity College Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy and Associate Director, Institutional Research and Planning]

 

Bringing Back The Big Guns
Hartford Courant – November 15, 2006
They played a role in bringing down the Confederacy, were present for an admiral's immortal words, and now Trinity College officials want to do justice to two...

 

Grant Aids Manufacturing Training
Hartford Courant – November 14, 2006
...Trinity College and the Trinity Club of Hartford recently honored Judy Dworin, a member of Trinity's Class of 1970, as its person of the year...

 

Government and Science: A Dangerous Liaison?

Independent Review – Fall 2006

Many scientists have said that government funding of research sometimes has strings attached that stifle the spirit of independent inquiry… [by] William N. Butos is a professor of economics at Trinity College, Hartford; Thomas J. McQuade is a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at New York University.

 

Athletics in the News

 

Trinity Hockey: Finally, A Home Rink
Hartford Courant – November 16, 2006
...That ends Friday when the doors of the $15.5 million Trinity College Community Sports Complex open for the Wesleyan-Trinity women's game at 4 pm, followed by...

 

Dominant Finish
Hartford Courant – November 12, 2006
...Trinity's defense dominated the rest of the game, as did its offense in a 41-0 ... 7-1), who finished second in the New England Small College Athletic Conference...

 

Perfect finish for Williams
Boston Globe – November 12, 2006

...Trinity 41, Wesleyan 0 -- Eric McGrath passed for 262 yards and two touchdowns and Gennaro Leo ran for one score and passed for another as the Bantams (7-1...

 


November 4, 2006 – November 10, 2006

 

Suspended in Time

Chronicle of Higher Education – November 10, 2006

Photographs hold us in their spell. We stare and study and think, So this is what happened… Louis P. Masur is director of the American-studies program at Trinity College

 

The End of the First Act

Hartford Advocate – November 9, 2006

The fee structure sounded pretty good to Carlos Espinosa, director of the Trinfo Café [at Trinity College] in Frog Hollow, which offers free computer classes and gives away used computers…

 

Election Special: Election Day!
WNPR – November 7, 2006

…We'll look at what's at stake, and what experts are saying about the outcome in Congress. Connecticut, of course plays a key role, with 3 competitive house races, that could tip the balance of the House…But in the studio first is Renny Fulco, Trinity College professor of legal and policy studies…

 

Election factors beyond the big issues

With one day to go before the mid-term elections, we'll look at some of the factors people consider when making their political decisions…on Where We Live, we'll look at some of these factors with our guests are Jerry Allen, a professor of political communication at the University of New Haven, and Mark Silk, director of the Trinity College Program on Public Values…

 

Colin McEnroe with Rennie Fulco

WTIC – November 5, 2006

Colin is joined by Rennie Fulco, professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity to talk about Donald Rumsfeld stepping down and what direction this could lead our military.

 

Recovery more likely in church than politics
Denver Post – November 5, 2006
...with the party, said Mark Silk, director for the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Homecoming Bash
Hartford Courant – November 5, 2006
By TOM YANTZ, Courant Staff Writer. Roommates Gennaro Leo, Chris Olenoski and Paul Mounds probably will never forget their final home game Saturday at Trinity...

 


October 28, 2006 – November 3, 2006

 

Stars come out for close congressional races in US state ...
International Herald Tribune, France - November 3, 2006
...Celebrity appearances can help candidates, especially late in a campaign, said Kevin McMahon, associate professor of political science at Trinity College...

 

Cross hits the ground 'Running'
USA Today – November 3, 2006
Then a freshman at Connecticut's Trinity College, Cross skipped an economics test to take the train into Manhattan and audition for the lead in Running With...

 

Islamic Chaplain Explains His Faith

Hartford Courant – November 2, 2006

Sultan, the Islamic chaplain at Yale University in New Haven and Trinity College in Hartford, spoke to about two dozen people Wednesday night at St. James's Episcopal Church…

 

Athletics in the News

 

Interviews: George Suitor of Trinity College (CT)

Trackshark.com – November 3, 2006

Coach Suitor is in his 15th season as head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country programs at Trinity College (CT).  Last year at the 2005 NCAA…

 

Resilience, Determination
Hartford Courant – November 1, 2006
... Trinity rebounded with four consecutive victories - three shutouts followed by a 34 ... games, the four-time defending New England Small College Athletic Conference ...

 

Leo, McGrath Keep Trinity Rolling

Hartford Courant – October 29, 2006

Trinity ignored the sheets of rain and wind gusts that turned some punts into 15-yard lobs Saturday. No, Saturday really was a beautiful football day for the Bantams…

 


October 21, 2006 – October 27, 2006

 

Interview: Joseph Cross from 'Running With Scissors'
WHDH-TV – October 26, 2006
... "I got the script when I was up at Trinity College, where I go to school. [I] really loved it, thought it was a great script and...

 

Stanford U. Receives $90-Million in Big Donations; Other Recent Gifts

Chronicle of Philanthropy – October 26, 2006

Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn., has received three anonymous pledges…

 

A TOUR OF CHINA: From the ancient to contemporary, the vision of ...
The Patriot Ledger – October 26, 2006
...and contemporary makes visitors appreciate each more,’’ said Hyland, the consulting curator and a professor of Chinese art at Trinity College in Hartford...

 

Negative Spin Seems To Be In
Hartford Courant – October 26, 2006
...bin Laden. "It's hard to get dirtier than that," said Diana Evans of the political science department at Trinity College. For all...

 

Stars Align, But Lamont Still Stalls
Hartford Courant – October 25, 2006
said Adrienne Fulco, director of Trinity College's public policy and law program. "He's just not ready for prime time…

 

University Of Hartford Awarded Grant For Initiative
Hartford Courant – October 24, 2006
...Trinity College Chapel composer-in-residence Robert Edward Smith has been selected to receive an ASCAPlus award for 2006-07 from the American Society of...

‘Scissors’ kick: Joseph Cross had a blast playing offbeat role
Boston Herald – October 24, 2006
By Tenley Woodman. Joseph Cross recently bought a home in New York. He dates a girl who is not an actress. He attends Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...

Religion - Or Lack Of It - Could Swing Senate Race
Hartford Courant – October 22, 2006
...faith on his sleeve. Mark Silk is director of the Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford.

 

Actor handles 'Scissors'
Boston Globe – October 22, 2006
...A student at Trinity College in Connecticut, he uses words such as “hetero-normative” amid his flow of “you knows” and “sort of likes.”....

 

Athletics in the News

It's all Trinity vs. Bears, 34-0
Brunswick Times Record – October 23, 2006
BRUNSWICK — Quarterback Eric McGrath tossed three touchdown passes as the Trinity College football team gained 520 yards of total offense in a 34-0 blanking...

Trinity Wins Behind McGrath
Hartford Courant – October 22, 2006
...Donald Driscoll closed out the scoring for Trinity with a 2-yard run with 4:02 left ...Western 10, College of New Jersey 3: Jeff Ward scored on an 8-yard run with...

 


October 14, 2006 – October 20, 2006

 

Donors pledge $39.5 million to Trinity College
WTNH – October 20, 2006
(Hartford-AP, Oct. 19, 2006 11:33 PM) _ Trinity College has received pledges totaling $39.5 million from three anonymous donors, officials have announced...

 

Trinity Given Major Gift
Hartford Courant – October 20, 2006
...Writer. Trinity College has received pledges totaling $39.5 million from three anonymous donors, officials announced this week. The...

 

Hot Commodity

Hartford Courant – October 20, 2006

Joseph Cross, a 20-year-old Trinity student from Westchester County, N.Y., is the star of "Scissors." He plays the main character…

 

Donors pledge $39.5 million to Trinity College
Newsday – October 20, 2006
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Trinity College has received pledges totaling $39.5 million from three anonymous donors, officials have announced...

 

Trinity Develops FOSS Disaster Relief Module
NewsForge – October 19, 2006

Julie Winkel writes "According to computer scientists at Trinity College (Hartford, Conn., US), the open-source software system known as Sahana is poised and...

 

Keeping The Pieces
Hartford Courant – October 17, 2006
..."You might as well put them in a museum," said Knapp, an architectural expert and special collections librarian at Trinity College in Hartford...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Bullies Are Back
Hartford Courant – October 14, 2006

...The shutout followed Trinity's 13-0 victory in its previous game at Hamilton and... is one of the weaker teams in the New England Small College Athletic Conference...

 


October 7, 2006 – October 13, 2006

Kosher food now available in Trinity dining hall
Connecticut Jewish Ledger – October 11, 2006
HARTFORD -- During his first two years at Trinity College in Hartford, Jordan Fisher found it challenging to keep kosher. “I do keep kosher...

 

Peak performance

NCAA News – October 9, 2006

Anne Parmenter, head field hockey coach and assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Trinity College (Connecticut), has been mountaineering and rock climbing since she went on a school trip at the age of 11...

 

Anne Firor Scott
History News Network – October 9, 2006
...determination that enabled Murray and Ware to carve out such singular careers." -- Barbara Sicherman, Kenan Professor Emerita, Trinity College reviewing "Pauli...

 

Picasso's Progeny

Time Magazine – October 9, 2006

In the Whitney show's catalog, guest curator Michael FitzGerald [Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College] says that that canvas "would obsess Gorky and his friends for the remainder of the decade."

 

At the Bull's-Eye

New York Magazine – October 9, 2006

To make the subject manageable, the creator of the exhibition, Michael FitzGerald [Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College] , has concentrated on Picasso’s impact on nine Americans (Max Weber, Stuart Davis, John Graham, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning…

 


September 30, 2006 – October 6, 2006

 

The long shadow of Picasso

Financial Times (UK) – October 2, 2006

Picasso died in 1973, so Michael Fitzgerald [Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College], the show's curator, stops with artists who were already deeply involved with Picasso at that time…

 

Athletics in the News

 

McGrath now calling signals for Trinity
The Daily Item of Lynn – October 6, 2006
Right there at the top -- under "Who's Not" -- read Trinity College for falling to Williams, 41-16, losing its first game after 31 straight wins. ...

 

Small Wonder
Los Angeles Times – September 30, 2006
Division III Trinity College has nation's longest win streak at 31. If it doesn't rank with USC's run, at least one player won't sweat it...

 

Trinity's Streak Speaks For Itself
Hartford Courant – September 30, 2006
...The New England Small College Athletic Conference rivals meet today (1:30 pm) at Weston Field in ... Williams had the best record eight times, Trinity six...