Puppy Love
A Labrador retriever puppy named Cooper has joined Trinity’s Campus Safety Department as a community support dog in training.
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Along the Walk
The Trinity Reporter welcomes letters related to items published in recent issues. Please send remarks to the editor at [email protected] or Sonya Storch Adams, Office of Communications and Marketing, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106.
Trinfo 2.0
Trinfo—formerly known as Trinfo.Café—reopened at the start of the fall 2025 semester as it celebrated 25 years on campus and a renewed focus on serving the community.
Eye on Environmental Health
Avery Sands ’26, a Trinity College environmental science major with a minor in legal studies, has been awarded a National Environmental Leadership Fellowship by the Rachel Carson Council (RCC).
Student Researcher Funding
A grant awarded to Jonathan T. Ashby ’09, assistant professor of chemistry, helped to support an undergraduate research stipend last summer for a Trinity College student working on Ashby’s research project, and it also will support a student researcher in the summer of 2026.
Clayton P. Byers
Donald L. McLagan Associate Professor of Engineering
Around Hartford
When Trinity College relocated in 1878 to its current campus on Summit Street, it left behind a prime parcel in Downtown Hartford, a site that became home to the Connecticut State Capitol.
Volunteer Spotlight
Susan Church Zibell ’97
Hiking along Hadrian’s Wall
In July 2025, Danny Briere launched a new TEC program experiment: a rugged hike across England where long miles left room for big conversations and alumni/student engagement.
Recent Publications
Books, monographs, CD, or video from Trinity faculty and alumni.
The Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence
Did you have a professor who impacted your life? If so, here’s your chance to pay tribute to that faculty member. The Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes consistently outstanding teaching by a senior faculty member, is awarded annually at Commencement. The prize constitutes one important means by which Trinity honors the teaching excellence of our faculty, central to our mission as a liberal arts college. All alumni are invited to submit nominations for those deemed to exemplify outstanding teaching. Nominations for eligible faculty members—made possible by a gift from the late Paul H. Briger ’61, P’87—should be submitted by Friday, March 6, 2026.
Questions? Please contact Sylvia DeMore, special assistant to the dean of the faculty.
