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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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August 19, 2006 – August 25, 2006

 

Bridging the racial divide down south
Leominster Champion – August 25, 2006
...As student president of Amnesty International at Trinity College in Hartford, where he's a junior, he knows how politics and power, money and poverty, race and...

 

The first day jitters
Windsor Locks Journal – August 24, 2006
...A clique can be more important than the family unit, says sociologist Peter Alderman, Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, as kids try to find a place to...

 

Colleges' community commitment: A meaningful measurement
Scripps News – August 22, 2006
...It is a subject Dobelle knows well, having fostered and designed a unique and widely heralded cooperative effort between Trinity College, where he was...


August 12, 2006 – August 18, 2006

 

A Painful Course to College
Los Angeles Times – August 18, 2006
... Frankel she had already made up her mind. She wanted to go to Trinity College in Connecticut. It was small and friendly. Perfect.

 

Athletics in the News

 

Westfield State inducts Leahy
Boston Globe – August 17, 2006
... Ali Berluti of Westwood was a part of the Trinity College crew team's third-place finish in the Division III National Championship Regatta. ...

 

College Notebook
Voices – August 16, 2006
If you're a little like me, waiting for the fall sports season to begin, you might have let your car ease past Trinity College in Hartford at the beginning of...

 

Trinity Women's Rowing Hires Ng as New Coach
row2k.com – August 14, 2006
Hartford, Conn., Aug. 14, 2006 Trinity College has hired Wesley Ng (Toronto, Ontario) as head coach of the Bantam women's rowing team...

 

Swimming for a cause
NCAAsports.com - August 13, 2006
...The group of NESCAC members raised a total of $40,000 for the event with participants from Trinity College, Hamilton College, Amherst College, Middlebury...

 


August 5, 2006 - August 11, 2006

 

Their big break

Baltimore Sun – August 10, 2006

Joe Stramondo, a career counselor at Trinity College in Connecticut, puts the Half Pint Brawlers in the category of "spectacle," although a far cry from dwarf throwing, which has been banned in most states…

Trinity Donors Boost Funds
Hartford Courant - August 5, 2006
After graduating from Trinity College 40 years ago, Petar Stoykovich kept track of his old school through newsletters and the alumni magazine...

`He Was A Man Of Love And Inclusiveness'
Hartford Courant - August 5, 2006
...was called Project Homosexual but was shortened to "Project H" out of concern for proprieties, says George Higgins, a retired professor at Trinity College...

Trinity raises record $7.1 million
WTNH - August 5, 2006
...Trinity College has raised a record seven-point-one million dollars in fund-raising drive...

Athletics in the News

Soaring To New Heights

SIoncampus.com – August 9, 2006

Parmenter, 47, the head field hockey coach and assistant women's lacrosse coach at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, had long been a mountaineering enthusiast when she signed onto an expedition up Mount Everest in 2004.


July 29, 2006 - August 4, 2006

Historic Buildings Make Affordable Homes
Hartford Courant - August 2, 2006

... at the turn of the 20th century were likely the children of immigrants, said Dr. Andrew Walsh, head of the Hartford Studies Department at Trinity College...


July 22, 2006 - July 28, 2006

Camps Sign Up Freethinkers

USA Today - July 27, 2006

...says Pasquale, a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College in Hartford...

 

A Visual Guide To Sheff vs. O'Neill Progress
Hartford Courant – July 23, 2006
...proportion of minority students at their schools exceeded the standard defined in the settlement, according to an analysis by Trinity College and University of...

 

A Decade of Half Measures

 

Hartford Courant – July 23, 2006
The Trinity College history and American studies professor took me back to 1848 and the writings of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, one of his favorite 19th...


July 15, 2006 – July 21, 2006 

Students Evacuated From Beirut ‘Nightmare' Amid Air Raids, Bombs
New York Sun – July 21, 2006
For Nadia Zahran, a rising senior at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., a summer Arabic program in Beirut provided one of the most frightening moments in her...

 

Fasting in Protest
Hartford Advocate – July 21, 2006
...in Iraq. Students at Trinity College are taking note. At 5´4, 118 pounds, senior Kat West will be fasting five days a week. ¨I...

 

College Program For Deaf Is Offered In City
Hartford Courant – July 18, 2006
...The Trinity College Alumni Association has honored Wenda Harris Millard, a member of the class of 1976 and the chief sales officer for Yahoo!, with the Alumni...

 


July 8, 2006 – July 14, 2006 

 

Third Party Animals: Meet Ralph Ferrucci and John Mertens…

Hartford Advocate – July 13, 2006

…The first-time political office seeker is a tenured professor in the engineering department at Hartford’s Trinity College

 

Agreement Eases Credit Transfers
Hartford Courant – July 11, 2006
...Trinity College Junior Vanessa Holguin is the recipient of the Beinecke Scholar and the Gilder Lehrman History Scholar awards. She...

 

Gay Ruling Shows New York Is Less Liberal Than It (and the US) ...

New York Times – July 10, 2006
...Ariela Keysar of Trinity College in Hartford, co-author with Barry A. Kosmin of "Religion in a Free Market," suggested that New Yorkers were not much more…

 

Religion Taking A Left Turn?
CBS News – July 9, 2006
..."The Christian right has a ground game," said Mark Silk of Trinity College's religious studies department. "Thus far the Christian...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Trinity’s Parmenter reaching new heights

NCAAsports.com – July 12, 2006

...The head field hockey coach and assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Trinity College became on of just a few thousand people in history to climb to the top of Mount Everest

 

USRowing Announces 2006 Under 23 National Team Roster

Row2k News – July 11, 2006

The 2006 Under 23 National Team roster has been set, USRowing announced on Monday.  In total, nine crews will represent the United States

 

His lucky putt came just in time
Boston Globe – July 9, 2006
...Trinity College women's tennis player Melissa White of Westwood, a senior captain, was selected to the New England Small College Athletic Conference...

 

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July 1, 2006 – July 7, 2006 

 

Local student studying public policy first-hand

TownOnline.com - July 7, 2006

North Andover resident and Trinity College student Natalie Kindred will be interning with Yankee Institute for Public Policy this summer...

 

Notes from a secularism conference
Dallas Morning News – July 6, 2006
...Which is based at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Which despite the name, is not a Christian school, though its founder was Episcopalian...

 

Mental Health Problems Increasing Among College Students
Hartford Courant – July 5, 2006
...M. Lee, director of the Counseling Center at Trinity College, said students today may arrive with fewer coping skills because parents have been so involved...

 

New Thoughts on Old Glory

Hartford Courant - July 2, 2006

Louis P. Masur is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values at Trinity College in Hartford. He is writing a book about "The Soiling of Old Glory," the title of Stanley Forman's photograph.

 

Athletics in the News

 

4 CHS alumni named college captains for '07
Cohasset Mariner – July 7, 2006
...Tom Anderson and Nick Spirito, all members of the Class of 2003, and Nick Murphy, a 2004 graduate, will respectively lead Trinity College, Connecticut College...

 

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June 24, 2006 – June 30, 2006

 

A's look to go on offensive

TownOnline.com - June 30, 2006

... Last year's leading hitter, Steve Dilanian (Trinity College) has returned to the lineup and plays outfield along with Curry and Goodrich...

 

Ambivalence: What Mothers Can't Say
Hartford Courant – June 25, 2006
...Sarah Bilston is an assistant professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford and author of the novel "Bed Rest" (HarperCollins).

 

Battle of the 'Bots

Ivanhoe Broadcast News – June 2006

With a love of robots and a few nuts and bolts, kids compete during the annual Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest in Hartford, Connecticut, challenging robots to fight fires in a flash!

 

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June 17, 2006 – June 23, 2006

 

From the Crow's Nest: Estate tax molehill
New Canaan Advertiser – June 22, 2006
...Gerald Gunderson of Trinity College writes that Connecticut has at least $300 billion in personal wealth that is affected and an exodus of even some of that...

 

The Trouble With Transhumanism
Always On – June 19, 2006
... This key point was emphasized at the conference by James Hughes, a professor at Hartford's Trinity College and author of the transhumanist manifesto Citizen...

 

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June 10, 2006 – June 16, 2006

 

On The Struggle For Dignity
New Haven Independent – June 14, 2006
...Moderator Kica Matos, executive director of JUNTA for Progressive Action, introduced speakers including Maryam Elahi, director of Trinity College’s Human...

 

South Carolina Pastor Elected President
Springdale Morning News – June 14, 2006
...Walsh is associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...

 

What kills the cat can expand our world
National Post – June 13, 2006
...Barbara M. Benedict, a professor of English at Trinity College in Connecticut, approached it through literature in her rich, ideas-crammed book, Curiosity: A...

 

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June 3, 2006 – June 9, 2006

 

Ex-Catholics move toward a secular life
Philadelphia Inquirer – June 5, 2006
..."Look at Europe, where a secular trend is prevalent," said Ariela Keysar, a demographer at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and the study's co-author...

 

Seizing the day in Iran

Boston Globe – June 4, 2006

It is now time for us to look at Iran not as a threat but as an opportunity for peace... Maryam Elahi is director of the Trinity College Human Rights Program.

 

Reflections In A Cabin
Hartford Courant – June 3, 2006
...faded, but in his prime, he was a prominent politician (Connecticut's lieutenant governor from 1941-43), a professor of English at Trinity College, winner of...

 

Many faiths come with newcomers
Attleboro Sun Chronicle – June 3, 2006

...Religion and Public Life in New England,'' co-published by the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Junior earns NE honor
The Republican – June 7, 2006
...Trinity College women's lacrosse senior captain Katie Neil of Longmeadow was selected to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Division III...

 

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May 27, 2006 – June 2, 2006

 

Curator Offers Sneak Preview of the Whitney’s “Picasso and American Art” Show

ARTINFO.com – June 2, 2006

It looks as though one of the most rewarding shows of the fall season will be the Whitney’s “Picasso and American Art”… Talking to ArtInfo’s sister publication, Museums New York, guest curator Michael FitzGerald of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn

 

Choate Rosemary Hall Receives $11.7 Million Gift For Scholarships
Hartford Courant – May 30, 2006
...During Trinity College's 180th Commencement on May 17, Jason Percy of South Windsor was named class salutatorian. Sarah Arnold of...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Extra innings for Abington coach
Boston Globe – May 28, 2006
...Brian Marsden, a hard-hitting tennis player from Hingham, represented Trinity College at the NCAA Division 3 national championships, at Mary Washington College...

 

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May 20, 2006 – May 26, 2006

 

`Mash-Ups' Bring Together Information For Internet Road Maps
Hartford Courant – May 24, 2006
...it. All of which makes the new "mash-ups" created by students at Hartford's Trinity College so exciting. What's a mash-up? It’s...

 

English Scholar Picked For Key Post At Trinity
Hartford Courant – May 24, 2006
...English scholar and college dean from California has been named dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Trinity College, officials announced...

 

Owning unearned white privilege
National Catholic Reporter – May 23, 2006
...Theologian Laurie Cassidy of Trinity College in Connecticut likened this work that whites must do to the work of salvation. Her...

 

Students Share Scholarships
Hartford Courant – May 23, 2006
... the leaders. Raymond Baker, a Trinity College professor of international politics, has been named a 2006 Carnegie Scholar. One of...

 

Whirl Of Diplomas, Caps And Gowns
Hartford Courant – May 22, 2006
... not only in the United States but also in London, Paris or even Mumbai, business leader John H. Biggs told about 560 graduates at Trinity College in Hartford.

 

Protesting The Da Vinci Code
WTNH – May 20, 2006
...Professor Mark Silk teaches religion in the media at Trinity College, and has more of a middle ground approach to the movie.

 

Athletics in the News

 

Trinity head baseball coach Decker has message for young people
Windsor Journal – May 26, 2006
Trinity College baseball coach Bill Decker, his team having missed the NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) playoffs for the first time since...

 

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May 13, 2006 – May 19, 2006

 

Social Interaction & Brains

Southern California Public Radio (scpr.org; 89.3 KPCC) – May 17, 2006

A Connecticut biologist has discovered that the brain cells in a South American fish species grow faster when the fish socially interact.

 

Rebecca Goldstein talks with Sara Ivry about philosophy and ...
nextbook – May 15, 2006
...A novelist and professor of philosophy at Trinity College, Goldstein dares to inhabit the mind of a man who preached objectivity, offering a lucid and often...

 

Athletics in the News

 

Isa (Maria) Restrepo Garners Two Awards

Squashtalk.com – May 18, 2006

Trinity College women’s squash senior Isa (Maria) Restrepo (Medellin, Colombia) has been selected as a 2005-06 NCAA Winter Postgraduate Scholarship winner…

 

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May 6, 2006 – May 12, 2006

 

‘Somos Todos Americanos’

Hartford Courant – May 10, 2005     

Connecticut had been oddly homogenous for nearly 200 years, said Andrew Walsh, associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College.

 

Are You 'Addicted' to Your Cell Phone
WFSB – May 9, 2006

...Susan Masino is a neuroscientist at Trinity College. "I do think that people are somewhat dependent on electronic portable devices," Masino says...

 

Trinity Professor Will Lead Institute
Hartford Courant – May 9, 2006
Dario Euraque, an associate professor of history and international studies at Trinity College, has been appointed director of the Honduran Institute of...

 

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April 29, 2006 – May 5, 2006

 

Mapping the Invisible City Outside Their Walls
New York Times – May 3, 2006

With its mostly suburban student body, and a campus surrounded by a black wrought-iron perimeter gate, Trinity College has sometimes been accused...

 

Peace for Katmandu: Expert offers observations

Spero News – May 1, 2006

Michael Lestz – associate professor of history at Trinity College, Connecticut... sounded a cautionary note about Nepal while offering a succinct description of the culture and polity of a country many Westerners have thought of a sort of Shangri-La.

 

World hip-hop questions US rap

BBC News – April 29, 2006

A recent international hip-hop festival which brought together rap artists from around the world has raised the question of why non-US rap is so political - whereas mainstream American rap appears frivolous...

 

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Trinity Rowing Teams Continue To Make Waves

Hartford Courant – May 3, 2006
The Trinity women's rowing team is on the Connecticut River at about 6:15 in the morning and the men's team typically starts practice at 4:30 in the afternoon.

 

Ex-Plymouth North star has lofty numbers at Trinity

Boston Globe – April 30, 2006

There is no sophomore jinx for Matt Stafford, the former Plymouth North High School slugger who is one of the top players in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.

 

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April 22, 2006 – April 28, 2006

 

The Beat with Mark Coles

BBC International Radio – April 27, 2006
This week, on The Beat, Mark Coles will be asking whether Hip Hop music produced around the world has now surpassed the American version of Hip Hop in terms of its social relevance. Many artists from all over the world recently performed at the Trinity Hip Hop Festival...

 

Carnegie Corporation Announces 2006 Carnegie Scholars; Carnegie ...
AScribe – April 25, 2006
...Raymond W. Baker, Trinity College; The Contemporary Islamic Wassatteyya (Mainstream): Understanding the Resilience and Appeal of Islam in a Global Age...

 

Trinity Event Features International Hip-Hop
Hartford Courant – April 24, 2006
A small but successful hip-hop show was just enough to convince a couple of Trinity College students that the alternative culture based in music and dance had...

 

Angelini slowed by back injury
Boston Globe – April 23, 2006
...The Trinity College junior led the conference in scoring at 18.6 points per game, finished second in the league in free-throw shooting at .814 (118-145), and...

 

Hip-Hop Festival
Hartford Courant – April 22, 2006
...In celebration of this, Trinity College will host an International Hip-Hop festival, culling talent from all corners of the globe to exhibit films, dance...

 

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April 15, 2006 – April 21, 2006

 

Trinity hosts international hip hop festival

WNPR News – April 21, 2006

Hartford's Trinity College is hosting a first of its kind International Hip Hop Festival this weekend, with over 25 acts from every continent on the bill.

 

Students Compete to Build Firefighting Robots

Chronicle of Higher Education – April 21, 2006

Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn., held its 13th- annual robot-firefighter competition last week, in which teams of students built robots designed to travel quickly through a model of a house and extinguish a candle…

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Neuroscience Program Should Be A Department
The Student Life – April 20, 2006
...NSF and CIC get it. Trinity College also recognizes the future of neuroscience education. It states, “Neuroscience departments...

 

MC Around the World

Hartford Advocate – April 20, 2006

At Trinity, students are organizing what is, in all likelihood, this country’s first international hip-hop festival…

 

Festival At Trinity Celebrates Culture Of Hip-hop

Hartford CourantApril 20, 2006

Hip-hop has become a worldwide phenomenon, and Trinity College is making its bid to be the center of that world this weekend.

 

R2CO2 a force in firefighting challenge
Evansville Courier & Press
April 17, 2006
...a computer engineering major from Evansville, took second place at last weekend's 13th annual Firefighting Robot competition at Trinity College in Connecticut...

 

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