Telling Trinity’s story each month through photography, this regular feature by staff photographer Nick Caito offers a glimpse into the many presentations, performances, competitions, and other events held throughout the year.
Highlights from August included pre-orientation programs, new student move-in day, Convocation, Matriculation, New Student Orientation, and much more. Explore the gallery below.
Trinity College in Photos: August 2025
Trinity College in Photos: August 2025
Northam Towers glow in the light of a late summer morning. Photos by Nick Caito.
Workers repair tiles outside Hamlin Hall during a final wrap-up of improvements around campus before students move in.
Workers tear up masonry and stone pavers outside McCook Hall during a final wrap-up of improvements around campus before students move in.
Cooper, Trinity’s community support dog in training, rests in the newsroom of WFSB in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, before the taping of his first television news segment. He will be featured September 12 and 14 on “Hello Connecticut with Renee DiNino.”
Trinity College President Dan Lugo talks with students in the Summit 2 Success and Trinity F1rst pre-orientation student groups. Lugo spoke about his experiences as the first member of his family to attend college.
Summit 2 Success and Trinity F1rst pre-orientation students cheer for the Hartford Yard Goats baseball team during a game on August 26, 2025.
Summit 2 Success and Trinity F1rst pre-orientation students cheer for the Hartford Yard Goats baseball team during a game on August 26, 2025.
Campus was an active place for families and students on August 28, which was move-in day for new students, including members of Trinity College’s Class of 2029.
Campus was an active place for families and students on August 28, which was move-in day for new students, including members of Trinity College’s Class of 2029.
Campus was an active place for families and students on August 28, which was move-in day for new students, including members of Trinity College’s Class of 2029.
Incoming first-year students in the Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship pre-orientation program walk down Talcott Street in downtown Hartford after visiting the Makerspace facility on Main Street.
Jonathan T. Ashby ’09, assistant professor of chemistry, works in the lab with Ethan Andujar ’27. Andujar assisted Ashby for eight weeks during the summer on a research project identifying and marking amino acids in proteins.
Henry DePhillips, professor of chemistry, emeritus, is filmed in a chemistry lab for a video about the history of Loctite adhesives. The compound, now ubiquitous across construction and manufacturing, was invented in Trinity’s chemistry labs by Professor Vernon K. Krieble in 1953.
Members of the Trinity College dragon boat team “Fear the Chicken” cheer before heading out to their first of three races on the Connecticut River. The team finished the day fourth in its division in a three-way photo finish, missing third place by .25 seconds and second place by .38 seconds.
Participants in The Elizabeth Elting Foundation Venture Conference pre-orientation program pose for a group photo in front of the Raether Library at the completion of the program.
Joe Barber, director of community service and civic engagement, pauses for a stretch on new student move-in day. Staff members like Barber and Katie Clair, associate director of the Office of International Students and Scholars (at left) help incoming students with everything from bus passes to WiFi passwords.
Two dads take breaks on Adirondack chairs during new student move-in day, August 28, 2025.
Members of the Class of 2029 line up along Summit Street for their Convocation and Matriculation ceremony.
(Left to right) Kristin Triff, associate professor of fine arts, Kalum Palandage, senior lecturer in physics, and Ewa Syta, Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, review the Convocation program before the start of the ceremony.
Stoic student “bodyguards” stand around the Luther-Roosevelt Stone to prevent members of the Class of 2029 from stepping on it. Tradition states that students who step on the stone before Commencement will not graduate.
Vice President for Student Success and Enrollment Management Joe DiChristina makes lemonade with the lemon squeezer, one of the many Trinity College traditions.
Members of the Class of 2029 pose for a photo holding bottles of lemonade. It is tradition at Trinity College for first-year students to take part in a lemonade toast at Convocation ceremonies.
Proud parents take a photo with their newly-minted Bantam before leaving campus.
Murdoch, “the feline mayor of Trinity College,” appears semi-relieved at not being the center of attention while Cooper is around—or is it jealousy?
Small flickers illuminate the Chapel during the first-year student Candle-Lighting Ceremony, one of the many traditions for new students at Trinity College.
Students sign the Matriculation Book in the Trinity College Chapel the day after their Convocation ceremony on the Main Quad.
One of several groundhogs living on the Trinity College campus peers out from its den near the athletics fields.
Cooper, Trinity’s community support dog in training, and his handler, Campus Safety Officer Corey Googe, pose for a photo with the Trinity field hockey team on August 29, 2025.
A red-tailed hawk perches on the fence surrounding the field hockey field.
Cooper, Trinity’s community support dog in training, greets returning students moving in on Saturday, August 30, 2025.
A Bantam family waves as they leave campus following move-in for returning students on August 30, 2025.
Members of the Class of 2029 sit for their class photo in the bleachers of Tansil-Muldoon Stadium.
A bearded dragon rides the back of a rabbit in a petting zoo enclosure near Mather Circle on August 30, 2025.
David the Alpaca takes a student for a walk. A petting zoo was set up near Mather Circle for students to meet a menagerie of animals.
Students laugh while playing badminton on Gates Quad during New Student Orientation weekend for the Class of 2029.
