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A historical yearlong celebration of Trinity College’s 200th anniversary officially got underway on Friday, May 5, 2023, with the Bicentennial Kickoff on the Main Quad. It marked the start of a yearlong schedule of events and programs designed to connect the entire Trinity community with the College’s past, present, and future.

An educational studies research project this semester introduced Trinity students to some of the ways in which the College engages with Hartford’s public education system, specifically through its partnership with the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy.

For more than 50 years, the opportunity to study at the Trinity College Rome Campus on Aventine Hill has led students to immerse themselves in the culture and language of Italy and to do so from the comfort of a ‘home away from home.’ Trinity’s oldest global study program marked its anniversary with a celebration in Rome.

In this Q&A with Trinity International Hip Hop Festival co-lead organizers Adyanna Odom ’23 and Tanzanikia Taylor ’23, learn all about this year's festival and about hip hop's impact on their lives. Held on the Trinity campus from March 30 to April 1, 2023, the festival is free and open to the public.

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.

This year’s “Color Our Collections” coloring book is giving the Trinity community a way to explore the library’s archival treasures through interactive art. #ColorOurCollections is a national movement to connect people with library collections through coloring.  

Trinity College students, staff, and faculty members recently attended the Connecticut Forum’s discussion with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Trinity is an education partner of the Connecticut Forum.

Trinity College continued its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the federal civil rights law known as Title IX by welcoming Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman to campus on December 1.

Thomas B. Edsall recently received Trinity’s Moses Berkman Memorial Journalism Award and delivered a lecture at the college.

The Hartford Medical Society’s historical collection of books, journals, and artifacts dating back to the 1500s has returned to the Watkinson Library at Trinity College, having previously been housed there from 1893 to 1898. The collection includes more than 30,000 volumes, 100 archival collections, and 550 medical instruments.