Trinity Professor’s Art Installation Comes to Connecticut Museum
The Museum of the Old Colony, an art installation by Professor of Fine Arts Pablo Delano, opened March 14, 2026, at the New Britain Museum of American Art.
English Professor Receives Literature Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters
Trinity College Associate Professor of English Ethan Rutherford continues to receive accolades for his debut novel, North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced recently that Rutherford has been recognized with the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature, which honors an exceptional novel published in the preceding year. Last fall, North Sun was named by the National Book Foundation as a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.
Rutherford is among 18 recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s 2026 Awards in Literature, which honor both established and emerging writers. The 300 members of Arts and Letters nominate candidates for awards, and a rotating committee of writers selects the winners.
The literature awards will be presented alongside the architecture, art, and music awards at Arts and Letters’s annual Ceremonial in May.
Founded in 1898, the American Academy of Arts and Letters represents the highest standards of artistic achievement in the country. Its community of members are among the nation’s leading contemporary architects, visual artists, writers, and composers. Arts and Letters honors creative accomplishment through the election of members, the conferment of awards, and presenting public exhibitions and interdisciplinary programs at its historic buildings in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Read an interview with Rutherford as he discusses his novel here.
Chemistry Professor Receives Award for Excellence in Education
Professor of Chemistry Michelle Kovarik has been named the recipient of the 2026 J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Analytical Chemistry.
Filmmaker Paul Schrader Visits Trinity to Discuss Creative Collaboration
Academy Award-nominated writer and director Paul Schrader spoke at Trinity College about his filmmaking career and his creative collaborations with a close friend, the late writer Russell Banks.
Women in STEM Event Highlights Trinity Faculty Research and Mentorship
Trinity College celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) with an event open to both the Trinity and Hartford communities.
