Trinity College

Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney kicked off the celebration of the 25th year of neuroscience at Trinity College with a talk entitled “Of Mice and Men and Girls and Autism: Insights from 15 years of studying the neurobiology of mouse models of autism spectrum disorders." For more on the 25th anniversary celebration, visit: http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/MajorsAndMinors/Neuroscience/25/Pag...

The Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut and Trinity College joined together to offer survivors of brain injury a free day of relaxation, friendship and fun at the BIAC Healthy Living Retreat for People with Brain Injury. This event was held on Friday, May 29th,at Trinity College in Hartford. Survivors were able to spend the day participating in workshops in Tai Chi, Art and Music Therapy, Yoga, M...

“The Mass Migrations of Italians and Jews to America: New Evidence on Who and Why” Yannay Spitzer is studying the economics of mass migration from a historical perspective. He is mainly interested in questions such as why people migrate across borders, how they migrate, what determines the timing and the demographic and economic patterns of their migration, and what happens with them after they ar...

Sinéad Morrissey is the author of five collections of poetry, the last four of which have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award. Her most recent, Parallax, won the coveted prize in 2013. Her work has received numerous accolades including the Patrick Kavanagh Award (of which she was the youngest ever winner), the Michael Hartnett Prize and the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. In 2007 she took fir...

Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Science at Stanford University, works on historical institutionalism and political theory, focusing on the political thought and practice of the ancient Greek world and its contemporary relevance. He is the author of a number of books mostly published by Princeton University Press, including Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989...

John Michael Mason, founder of the Trinity Film Festival and interim head coach of track and field at Trinity, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this (non-faculty) interview episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter. 00:00 – 6:46 – Introduction, The Mill and supporting artists at Trinity College 6:46 – 15:45 – The Shining, Trinity Film Society and Ci...

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter 00:00 – 6:30 – NFL Europe, Cultural Hybridity, and hard-to pronounce names 6:30 – 11:45 – Belfast and Modern Ireland 11:45 – 17:40 – Alfred Webb, J.F.X. O’Brien, and Irish Republicanism 17:40 – 2...

Chaz Firestone is a member of the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where he is currently pursuing his PhD in psychology. Firestone earned a Master's in psychology from Brown University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, also from Brown.

"Bariberi Lecture: Italian Identity in the Making - Migration and Culture" Amara Lakhous was born in 1970 in Algiers, the sixth of nine children. His parents were Berbers, and they sent him to a Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school, which meant that he had the role of mediating between his Algerian and his French relatives. He was influe...

Leslie Jamison is the author of "The Gin Closet," and a collection of essays, "The Empathy Exams." Her work has appeared or will appear in Harper's, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, among other publications. Jamison is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review, and is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale about addiction narratives.

Anne Parmenter, head field hockey coach at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter Podcast Chapters: 00:00 - 9:55 - Introduction and Trinity Field Hockey 2014 9:55 - 14:35 - Looking to 2015, Growth, Motivation and Developing Student-Athletes 14:35 - 20:45 - Background, Early Life and Sport in...

Kevin McMahon, John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter Podcast Chapters: 00:00 - 6:20 - Introduction and Early Political Influences 6:20 - 12:25 - FDR, the Supreme Court, and Civil Rights 12:25 - 23:45 - Nixon's Court and Judicial Liberalism 23:45 - 32:00 - Th...

Dario Del Puppo, Professor of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter Dario Del Puppo is Professor of Language and Culture Studies. Besides teaching all levels of Italian language, he teaches courses on Dante’s Divine Comedy, surveys of Italian literature from t...

George J. Mead '37 Annual Lecture in History: Caribbean-Connecticut Connection - From the 18th Century to the 21st Century by Heather Cateau Cateau is a senior lecturer in Caribbean History at the University of the West Indies’ St. Augustine Campus and the current Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education. She has held the positions of Head of the History Department, Deputy Dean of Student M...

Dr. Timothy Cross '76 returned to campus to discuss the pharmaceutical industry, as part of the "Science for the Greater Good" series at Trinity. Dr. Cross is the Director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University. To follow the presentation slides that accompanied Dr. Cross' talk, visit: http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/...

On Feburary 9, 2015, Amity Shlaes delivered a talk at Trinity College entitled: Coolidge in 2016: How Coolidge Said "No" and How He Can Teach Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and Hillary Clinton to say "No," Too” Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: "Coolidge, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," "The Forgotten Man/Graphic Edition," a cartoon book, and "The Greedy...

Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican novelist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the essay collection "Sidewalks," and the internationally acclaimed novel, "Faces in the Crowd." Her work has been translated into several languages, and in 2014, she was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. Her second novel, "The Story of My Teeth" will be published next fall by Coffee...

Patrick is one of the founding members of Patrick L Pinnell AIA/ Architecture & Town Planning LLC. An avid local architectural history buff, Patrick combines this knowledge with current design techniques to provide a unique approach to modern planning that blends with any neighborhood. His specialty is gut-renovations where original details need to be preserved or restored. Pinnell is the recipien...

Amity Gaige is the author of three novels, "O My Darling," "The Folded World," and "Schroder," which was short-listed for the Folio Prize and named one of the Best Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Connecticut with her family and teaches at Amherst College.

Sean Cocco teaches early modern history at Trinity College. He earned Ph. D. from the University of Washington, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Naples, Italy in 2001. In this podcast, Cocco discusses the Presidential search at Trinity, of which he was a committee member, his time in Italy, Galileo, and more. Chapters: 0:00 – 5:45 – Introduction and Trinity Presidential Search Committee 5:45 – 12:45...

Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. His first book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, won the Minnesota Book Award, the Friends of American Writers Award, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He wa...

Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, discusses ISIS in a lecture to Trinity students, hosted by Alpha Delta Phi.

Barbara Beltz P’02 is the Allene Lummis Russell Professor of Neuroscience at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on the production of new neurons in the adult nervous system (adult neurogenesis), using the crustacean brain as the model system.

Andrew Koh is with the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University and the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology with MIT; he holds his degrees from UPenn (Ph. D.) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of specialization are Greek art and archaeology, the Mediterranean and the East, the ethnoarchaeology of Crete, and archaeological science. Professor Koh ha...

Nancy Miller Davis '77 was elected Vice President and Chief Information Officer at United Technologies in January, 2010. She is responsible for providing leadership to UTC’s information technology function, including global IT strategies, systems, infrastructure and supplier management. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Trinity College and holds a Master of Science degree from Rensselaer Polyt...