Sprout Garden summer intern Eliza Macaluso ’27 slices cucumber for students from the Child Development Lab School during their visit to the garden.
Afghan mathematics scholar-in-residence Obaidullah Wardak and his family meet members of the College community who helped bring them to the U.S. Wardak is a beneficiary of the Institute of International Education—Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF). IIE-SRF selects outstanding professors, researchers and public intellectuals for fellowship support and arranges visiting academic positions with partnering institutions of higher learning and research.
President Chapdelaine arrives
President Andrea Chapdelaine meets Amanda Barnes, senior assistant to the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, as she tours the campus accompanied by Amy Dooling, vice president for strategic initiatives and special adviser to the president. Read more about President Chapdelaine’s arrival.
Bailey Rodgers, the special collections librarian in the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives at Shain Library, shows the oldest book in the collection to Professor Michelle Neely and participants in the “Climate Hope” Summer@Conn pre-college program.
A pair of female northern cardinals engage in apparent air-to-air combat on the Blaustein lawn.
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Andrew Strickler, right, jokes with Admission Fellows Ari Benjamin ’24, Yahya Aadan ’27 and Charlotte Steinhauer ’27 at the Horizon House welcome desk.
Water Commons Director Melissa Ryan, left, and Assistant Director Lauren O'Leary adjust the positioning of the new circular couch in the entry area of the Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement in Blaustein Humanities Center.
Post Office Assistant Kathleen Watford collects a delivery of packages from FedEx at the mailroom loading dock.
Staff take advantage of the new rocking adirondack chairs on the Shain Library patio.
Sailing on the Thames
High school sailors participate in an advanced team racing sailing clinic hosted by Conn and One United Sailing on the Thames River.
Arboretum interns Ana Bermudez ’25 and Alex Towle ’25 take measurements as they conduct an inventory of the bushes and shrubs around Tempel Green.
Gavin Mpiana ’27, Lucy Parker ’28 and Mae Mastrullo ’28 mind the goal as they help coach the Camels Soccer Camp on Tempel Green.
MaryAnne Borrelli, the Susan Eckert Lynch '62 Professor of Government at Conn, leads a role-playing workshop, “Strategizing Transnational Public Health,” with scholars from the U.S. State Department's Study of U.S. Institutes. This is the second consecutive year that scholars participating in the five-week program have visited Connecticut College.
Workers install the new field turf surface on Silfen Field.
A black swallowtail butterfly searches for nectar on a chicory blossom near the Sprout Garden.
