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Trinity College engineering majors Kevin Clark ’23 and Ananya Swamy ’23 recently received student project grant awards from the NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium. The students are developing innovative senior capstone projects with the help of their group members, project advisers, and now the added support of NASA grant funds.

Sarah Bilston, Trinity College professor of English, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship to help her complete her latest book, The Hunt for the Lost Orchid, which delves into the dangerous and deceitful world of orchid hunting in the 19th century.

As snow fell across campus on Sunday, December 11, the 63rd annual Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols was celebrated in the Trinity College Chapel, marking the beginning of the holiday season for the Greater Hartford community.

Local artist Taris Clemons created a mural on Zion Street that speaks to the multicultural nature of the Frog Hollow neighborhood, adjacent to Trinity College.

A gift from the family foundation of Trinity College alumnus Gregory Mario ’87, CEO of TAXIS Pharmaceuticals Inc., will create a new endowed professorship, the Henry A. DePhillips Jr. Chemistry Professorship, honoring Mario’s former professor and adviser.

An experiential learning trip through the parks, canyons, and waterways of Utah this summer gave Trinity students a memorable new perspective on environmental science. Eleven students and three faculty members spent 10 days paddling, hiking, camping in the desert and on riverbanks, and learning about the natural world all around them.

Several members of the Trinity College faculty recently were awarded substantial grants to pursue long-term scientific projects alongside their students.

Five Trinity College interns have been enjoying unique internship opportunities this summer, working with innovators at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and health equity.

Real Art Ways in Hartford will present the premiere of And all things hushed, an immersive theatrical and dance experience created by choreographer and Trinity College Theater and Dance Department faculty member Peter Kyle, June 17-18 and June 23-25, 2022.

Trinity College has renamed the recently renovated building previously known as Vernon Social in honor of Cornelia “Cornie” Parsons Thornburgh ’80, H’22, longtime volunteer and stalwart supporter of the college.