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 July included the first day on the job for Trinity College President Dan Lugo, carillon concerts on the Main Quad, summer research, Dream Camp, and the debut of Cooper, Trinity’s community support dog in training. Explore the gallery below.
Trinity College in Photos: July 2025
Trinity College in Photos: July 2025
Trinity College President Dan Lugo began his first day on the job—July 1, 2025—by meeting with Campus Safety officers. Photos by Nick Caito, unless otherwise noted.
Trinity College President Dan Lugo touches one of the original gateposts to the Summit Campus after they are pointed out by Chief of Staff Jason Rojas.
President Dan Lugo spent his first official day on the job meeting with groups of faculty and staff across campus, taking questions, and discussing his vision for the College.
A bust from Greek mythology greets visitors stopping by the Buildings and Grounds building on the south side of Trinity’s campus.
Maureen Grabowski, senior associate director of donor relations, meets Murdoch, the “feline mayor of Trinity,” for the first time.
Warm summer evenings greet the Trinity community in July as people gather on the Main Quad every Wednesday to enjoy music from the Chapel’s carillon. Photo by Helder Mira.
Kayla Houston ’27 (left) and Sabin Limbu ’27 review archival collections at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History as part of their summer research project examining how a trash incinerator in Hartford’s South End and its subsequent closure affected the local community. The project is a component of the Urban Environmental Justice in Greater Hartford grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a research collaboration between Trinity College's Center for Hartford Engagement & Research, Center for Caribbean Studies, and Center for Urban and Global Studies, with community partners at the Center for Leadership & Justice and the Stowe Center for Literary Activism.
This summer saw the introduction of a new community support dog in training: a Labrador retriever named Cooper! Coop was born on May 4 and arrived at Trinity in late June.
Malia Ruggiero ’27 presents an update on her summer research project examining channel motility using Flourescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET).
Maggie Terpeny ’28 holds a mouse while preparing for a series of tests that will examine how motor skills in mice are affected by different genetic predispositions.
Every summer Trinity hosts Dream Camp, a program exclusively for Hartford residents age 6-16. More than 150 campers participated this year for weeks filled with dancing, art, games, and more.
Members of a local Boys & Girls Club branch use the Trinity athletics fields for a rigorous game of kickball.
Coordinator of Recreational Programming Quin Woods ’23, M’25 sits in a storage container and takes stock of supplies while planning the Quest first year pre-orientation program. The College’s stock for recreational activities was being temporarily stored outside the athletics center as the new Scully Center addition was being completed.
The Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz was held July 18-21 in Bushnell Park featuring live music, vendors, and food trucks.
A Michelson interferometer is used by students for their summer research project developing devices for the detection of gravitational waves. Laser interferometers are sensitive devices used to measure wavelengths by splitting and reassembling beams of light.
Trinity College recently received the donation of a telescope observatory dome, which is expected to be set up on the roof of McCook and outfitted with a Celestron 11” Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope.
Fadhil Ahmed '26 adjusts settings on the prototype of a quantum particle detecting device he is helping to develop with Associate Professor of Physics David Branning. Detection devices are normally large and prohibitively expensive. This device would be a fraction of the cost and use commonly available components.
Trinity’s campus sees pops of colorful flowers during the summer, including these lillies by McCook.
Trinity’s campus sees pops of colorful flowers during the summer, including these yellow coneflowers by McCook.
State Treasurer Erick Russell speaks at a July 24 press conference announcing the creation of an endowment for early childhood education. The press conference was held at the Trinity College Community Child Center (TC4) on campus.
Noelle Hanson ’26 meets with Shane Gleason, associate professor of public policy and law, to talk about her summer research project, which uses AI tools to more accurately transcribe testimony in state supreme courts.
Cooper, the Trinity community service dog in training, greets his official handler, Campus Safety Officer Corey Googe.
Banty and Cooper became fast friends at their first meeting on July 31, 2025.
Cooper, the community service dog in training, and Murdoch, the “feline mayor of Trinity,” have a tentative meeting, as the two explore boundaries of personal space and play styles.
Cooper, the community service dog in training, is ready to get around campus.
