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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 was born in Seattle, Washington, and received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Trinity, he taught at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and at the MFA program at Hamline University. In the classroom he encourages his students to read as writers, to take their own work seriously, and to understand that even the most compelling stories began simply, as a series of artistic choices.

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 has done field work for the ARCHEM Project in Greece, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey.

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 Polytechnic Institute.​​​​​​​​​ She is joined by Peter Bradley ’87, a fellow in the field of high-performance computing and modeling at Pratt & Whitney.

On October 2, 2014, Timothy S. Fisher, Dean of the University of Connecticut Law School, gave a talk entitled "Why Law? Why Now?" at Trinity College. The talk was sponsored by the departments of Public Policy and Law, Political Science, and Career Development at Trinity College. Fisher became the 17th dean of the UConn School of Law on July 1, 2013 following thirty-five years in private practice. Prior to becoming dean, he taught at the Law School as an adjunct instructor. Dean Fisher's legal career has focused on the fields of ethics, alternate dispute resolution, commercial transactions, construction law, family wealth disputes, and municipal law. A graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School, Dean Fisher has served in numerous public service and private sector leadership roles. He currently chairs the State’s Commission on Judicial Compensation.

Of Kurdish descent, Persheng Vaziri ‘81 was born and raised in Iran and lives in New York City. She directed several personal documentaries about Iran such as "Women Like Us" and "A Place Called Home." She is a producer for "Bridge to Iran" series on Link TV, and has worked on documentaries in the U.S. and Iran. A graduate of Trinity College and New York University, she is completing her PhD at Temple University in Philadelphia. This event was co-sponsored by the following Trinity Departments and Centers: English, International Studies, Political Science, History, Urban Studies, the Center for Urban and Global Studies, WMGS, Human Rights, Sociology, Women and Gender Resource Action Center. www.trincoll.edu

On Tuesday, September 30, the Program in American Studies at Trinity College welcomed Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, to deliver this year's annual Jan Cohn Lecture. Blackhawk discusses "Native American Studies and the Question of Genocide" in this podcast. www.trincoll.edu

Richard Weingerten '68 shares his journey through mental illness, recovery, and work in the mental health field. www.trincoll.edu

Jane Bearinger '90 founded Corporos Inc in 2011 after working in industry, academia and national lab settings. She designs and develops inexpensive, fast and sensitive molecular diagnostics appropriate for the field and clinic.

Sarah Raskin, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Trinity College, presents her research on memory and memory loss to students at Trinity's summer science program. Follow along with the slides while listening to this podcast: http://bit.ly/1o4ALqp

The Trinity College Quirks perform their rendition of "Take Me Home" by Phil Collins. For more, visit www.trinitycollegequirks.com.

Richard Yoon '05 talks about his path as an undergraduate at Trinity to an orthopedic surgeon resident at New York University Langone Medical Center, revealing his secrets to success in this presentation to Trinity summer science students. For photos from the talk, visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycollege/sets/72157645128260735/

A reading and talk by New York Times bestselling author, Wally Lamb, at Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) on March 5, 2014.

"Butterfly," performed by the Trinity College Trinitones a Cappella group is a track off their new album, "Miles(tone)." For more on the Trinitones, visit: www.trinitytrinitones.weebly.com.