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LGBTQ+ History Month programs held throughout October were designed both to help connect the queer community at Trinity and to educate and enrich the campus as a whole, said Crystal Nieves ’08, M’23, director of LGBTQ+ life. “This year, we thought in particular about Trinity’s role in the queer history of Hartford,” Nieves said.

As part of a Public Humanities Collaborative project, Trinity student researchers have created an online story map collecting the memories and experiences of people who received a bilingual education in Hartford over the past 60 years.

More than 40 faculty members received honors during Trinity’s first Faculty Excellence Awards ceremony on October 17.

The film crew for a feature-length Tollywood production descended on Trinity College in October, capturing footage at iconic locations and soliciting student volunteers for several scenes.

Since the first fund was established in 1853, these gifts and accumulated investment returns have supported students and have made the Trinity experience possible.

Myri Ayala ’25 received a Professional Pipeline Student Scholarship from EDUCAUSE and has accepted a job that begins after graduation with the risk management company AON. Ayala has spent four years at Trinity working for Library and Information Technology Services.

Alumna Kaja LeWinn '98, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, will receive the award and deliver a speech October 30 at 4:30 p.m. in Mather Hall.

Madalene Spezialetti of computer science is asking her students to partner with AI this semester to create junk journals, poetry, and comic strips, to mount an art exhibition, and stage a musical performance.

Blase Provitola, assistant professor of language and culture studies and women, gender, and sexuality, is dedicating time this semester to writing their first monograph as a research associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center.

An American Chemical Society (ACS) SEED grant awarded to Michelle Kovarik supported a summer research opportunity for high school students. “This program allows students to see early on if chemistry is a profession they’re interested in,” Kovarik said.