OpenFieldTrinity College · Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Trinity College is a historic, highly selective private liberal arts college situated on a 100-acre English-style collegiate gothic campus in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1823 as the second-oldest college in Connecticut, Trinity is celebrated as one of the few liberal arts institutions offering an ABET-accredited engineering program, world-class neuroscience, urban studies, and international affairs.
Trinity delivers over 40 majors and interdisciplinary minors through dedicated departments in the Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. Its Roy Nutt Mathematics, Engineering & Computer Science Center, Clement Chemistry Building, and neuroscience laboratories provide direct undergraduate access to advanced laser optics and neuro-electrophysiology rigs.
Admissions are highly selective and evaluated holistically (Common Application; test-optional). Evaluation emphasizes rigorous secondary school curriculum (honors/AP/IB), academic GPA, personal essays, extracurricular leadership, and counselor/teacher recommendations.
Rare ABET-accredited engineering program at a premier liberal arts college, integrating bio-instrumentation, embedded signal processing, digital circuit design, and senior design clinic capstones.
Interdisciplinary program examining neuro-electrophysiology, synaptic neurotransmission, cognitive behavioral models, and neurodegenerative disease mechanisms in rodent animal models.
Rigorous undergraduate computer science curriculum exploring algorithm theory, distributed operating systems, cryptographic security, and human-centered computing.
Elite undergraduate policy curriculum leveraging Trinity's location in Connecticut's state capital for legislative internships, legal clinic placements, and policy analysis.
Hands-on physics program offering undergraduate research in observational astronomy using the campus observatory, quantum optics, and computational mechanics.
Competitive 10-week summer research fellowship pairing students one-on-one with faculty mentors across engineering, neuroscience, molecular biology, and chemistry.
President & Professor of Neuroscience
Office of the President & Neuroscience Program
Dr. Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the 22nd president of Trinity College, an internationally acclaimed neuroscientist who has conducted groundbreaking research on the...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Engineering
Department of Engineering
Dr. Mertens is an authority on combustion kinetics, thermodynamic shock tube measurements, and air quality emissions, mentoring undergraduate engineering design...
View researcher profile ↗Vernon D. Roosa Professor of Applied Science
Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychology
Dr. Masino is an internationally recognized neuroscientist investigating neuromodulators (adenosine), ketogenic metabolic therapies for epilepsy, and forest con...
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