News and College Life

Cheer team at the Homecoming Tailgate on November 10, 2023.

In-camera multiple exposure of a student climbing on November 9, 2023.

On World Anthropology Day, the anthro department offered passersby the opportunity to throw atlatl spears - an ancient, close-range weapon regularly wielded by women. 

Student performers help each other get ready backstage before the Pablo Milanés legacy concert on November 9, 2023. 

A violinist shares a smile with another musician during a concert honoring Pablo Milanés at the Berklee Performance Center on November 9, 2023. 

Members of the theater department production of Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, A new version by Sarah Ruhl based on a literal translation by Elise Thoron with Natasha Paramonova and Kristin Johnsen-Neshati, Directed by David Jaffe, make final preparations in the dressing room Thursday, November 16, 2023 in Tansill Theater..

Students arrange photographs in a display case as Christopher B. Steiner, PhD, Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History & Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program, works with the students in his AHI 250 Perspectives of Photography course installing an exhibit of photography from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from the collection of Natalie Curley, Labors of Love: Work, Family and Play in American Folk Photography, Tuesday, November 7, 2023 in Shain Library. Students worked with Krane Scholar-in-Residence Lucy Sante to curate the exhibit from the collection of Natalie Curley. The course is a survey of the history and cultural context(s) of photography from its origins to the present day. The course considers photography as technological invention, artistic medium, social text, and cultural practice. Through lectures, class discussions, and hands-on workshops, students will explore the production, circulation, and reception of photographic images, and develop skills for looking critically at photographs. Lucy Sante (scholar-in-residence) and Natalie M. Curley (collector-in-residence) are the inaugural participants in the Krane Guest Residence in Art History, supported by a gift from Connecticut College Trustee Jonathan A. Krane ’90. The program is intended to introduce students to notable scholars and leading experts in the history of art and visual culture, to foster interdisciplinary approaches to learning and bring to light the significance of inherited artifacts and material culture in social construction and knowledge of history. 

Connecticut College dance students perform Cactus, Choreography and Text by: David Dorfman in collaboration with the performers.
Performed by: Emily Brankman, Alison Custer, Elyse D’Amato, Hannah DelGrego, Ava Dobro, Bella Donatelli, Erin Flanagan, Kiera Franciskovich, Kelsey Halio, Mia Jurkunas, Claire Lawrence, Jocelyn Lewis, Ariel Mayer, Isabella Meehan, Haley Michel, Gabriela Miotto Leal, Ava Norris, Emi O’Brien, Gray Ruffer, Izzy Sala, Clare Simon, Bridgette Silva, Lucy Tretter, Grace Webb, as part of the department fall concert  Thursday, November 30, 2023 in Palmer Auditorium. 
 

Students in Professor Taegan McMahon’s BIO 210 Ecology and Evolution lab section, from left, Riley Anderson ’25, Violet Hall ’25, and Sentra Perera ’26  observe birds at the feeders near Buck Lodge in the arboretum Monday, November 6, 2023. The course studies the fundamental principles and processes that occur at the ecological and evolutionary levels. Topics include energy flow, nutrient cycling, succession, population dynamics, biodiversity, interspecific interactions, the structure of natural communities, population genetics, natural selection, adaptation, coevolution, and the origin of species. The laboratory will include investigative experiments, discussion of primary research articles, quantitative reasoning, statistical analysis, and communication skills. 

On November 2nd, a group of Israeli University rectors visited some of the sites of the October 7th attacks. This picture is from the site of the Supernova Music Festival.
364 civilians were killed and many were taken hostage from the festival including many students from the university.