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Trinity College recently hosted the first Summit Innovation Challenge to promote entrepreneurship on campus through a “Shark Tank”-like competition that featured students pitching their inventions. Trisha Mohan ’26 won first place with her invention, the CandleCover, and Jade Mellitz ’26 won second place with Sandy Soles.

Trinity College’s 2023 TAG Week fundraising challenge surpassed previous years’ records with 2,200 donors contributing more than $1.2 million in support for Bantam intercollegiate athletic teams.

A full schedule of Black History Month events at Trinity College included a visit from keynote speaker Da’Shaun Harrison, a Black trans theorist and storyteller. “Protect the Culture: All Black Errthang” served as the theme for this year’s Black History Month programming, encompassing diverse aspects of Black history and culture for the Trinity community to explore.

Former President Jimmy Carter gave the commencement address to the Trinity College Class of 1998, promising the seniors he would "be brief" in offering them three things to remember. He gave them four. The Trinity community remembers the late Jimmy Carter.

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.

A Trinity College researcher explored remote jungles to learn about wildlife behavior. The resulting study provides evidence about socio-cultural and ecological factors that underpin the behavior of one species.

After recent earthquakes left cities destroyed and thousands dead in Turkey and Syria, Trinity College students from Turkey quickly organized a fundraising campaign to support the people in their home country whose lives have been severely impacted.

The Kukily Afrofeminst Arts Collective, presented their work "Negra, negra, negra soy," at Trinity College Feb. 9, as part of Black History Month. The performance was designed to strengthen connections, generate a greater understanding of each others' lived experiences, and engage in art making.

For patients with chronic conditions, regular medical appointments are integral to treatment. So, a research team including a Trinity College professor and an alumna is trying to pinpoint the reasons some patients with multiple sclerosis miss them.

A tight-knit group of friends—all of whom graduated in the 1990s, met their spouses at Trinity, and participated on Bantam sports teams—recently got together to make a joint leadership gift establishing a new fund at Trinity dedicated to supporting equity in women’s athletics.