On Jan. 20, Director of Career Services Lanna Hagge unexpectedly passed away. Lanna had served the Office of Career Services for almost 13 years, and was preparing for the Sophomore Success Program that she had brought to Trinity and watched grow under her careful guidance.
2 CommentsOn Sunday, Jan. 10, a massive earthquake struck Haiti, one of the poorest and most under-developed countries in the world. The 7.0 magnitude quake, the worst the region has seen in 200 years, reduced much of the capital city, Port-Au-Prince, to rubble. A preliminary assessment released on Saturday, Jan.
1 CommentsAssistant Professor of English Christopher Hager was awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) amounting to $50,400 for the 2010-2011 academic year, during which he will be on sabbatical. The fellowship is one of 319 humanities projects sharing $20 million in grant awards.
0 CommentsProfessor of Theater and Dance Judy Dworin was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help finance the latest collaborative arts project by her non-profit organization, the Judy Dworin Performance Project (JDPP).
0 CommentsTrinity tenured professor of Engineering John Mertens recently won the nomination of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party (CFL) in Connecticut's first open United States Senate seat in 30 years. At the CFL's statewide caucus in Hartford last week, Mertens secured a spot on the November ballot, becoming the first official nominee for the U.
0 CommentsThe Board of Trustees has ratified the budget for Fiscal Year 2011, according to an email sent by President James F. Jones, Jr. to the Trinity community on Jan. 25. In an economy that has seen both Harvard University and Yale University lose close to 30 percent of their respective endowment values, all colleges and universities faced difficult decisions when it came to choosing which areas would bear the financial brunt of the losses.
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