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Mellon Grant to Benefit First-Year Focus Program and More
The College has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will support the newly expanded, multi-disciplinary First-Year Focus Program as well as enhance curricular integration efforts in both global and urban areas.
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College Hosts “Women Making History”
An overflow crowd of more than 150 scholars and historians gathered in Mather Hall on Saturday, September 24, to pay tribute to a longtime Trinity faculty member who knocked down barriers for female academics who are still following in her path.
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Campus Community Pitches in
for Hurricane Relief
As heart-wrenching images of Katrina’s destructive aftermath flooded America’s television screens, Trinity students stepped back onto campus with a sense of urgency to aid in the relief efforts.
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Trinity Hosts School Choice Conference as part of Educational Studies Fall Program
A group of educators, parents, and policy makers gathered recently in Mather
Hall to take part in the “Who Chooses Schools and Why?” conference.
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Barcelona Faculty Members Offer
Exhibit at Widener
The Widener Gallery in the Austin Arts Center hosted “Between Two Worlds,” an exhibition featuring works by two studio arts faculty members from the Trinity-in-Barcelona Global Learning Site.
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Awards and Honors
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Sports
Highlights
Football Streak Continues as Trinity Rolls Over Hamilton
Bantams Swim for Cancer Research
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In the News
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Milestones
Recognizing members of the campus
community for their years of service to Trinity
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Professor of English Hugh Ogden chats with a
standing-room-only
crowd in the Reese Room before reading from his
poetry collection,
Bringing a Fir Straight Down, as part
of TCCTR’s Trinity Authors’ Series. Ogden’s
latest book, his sixth, has been nominated for
the Kingsley-Tuft prize as the best book of
poems in 2005.
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Tito Victoriano
Webmaster
“Creativity isn’t tied to the end product,” says Tito Victoriano, the College’s Webmaster. “It’s in the process. It doesn’t really matter what it is you are creating. The process is the same—the key is to make something worthwhile at the same time you’re discovering new things.”
Victoriano should know. He has been working in information technology at Trinity for 10 years, starting with a temporary position in the summer of 1995, but prior to that he pursued an almost exhaustive series of careers that, while seemingly very different from each other, all involved one key ingredient: creative expression. As for his current work with computers, he says with a smile, “I just had a knack for it.”
Originally from southern Chile, Victoriano was a first-year college student planning to major in either chemical engineering or electronics
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What they’re reading…
Mel McCombie
Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies
Some readers are serial monogamists; I
am the other kind, albeit with a system. I always have a
recorded book in the car (currently, Jeffrey Eugenides’s
brilliant Middlesex); a print fiction book going
(just finished Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America);
and a print non-fiction.
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Trinity played its first football game
on November 22, 1877, losing to Yale University 13-0. The College played sporadically over the next decade, losing each contest. The team’s first victory came against Massachusetts Agricultural College (later the University of Massachusetts) on October 15, 1887 by a score of 32-4. In 1911, the football team completed its first undefeated season.
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