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All That Jazz: KRTU Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with Citywide Collaboration
KRTU membership coordinator Rebecca Villarreal and student managers Laura Hall and Rebecca Reinhardt greet attendees along the “Cultural Corridor” during the Year of Jazz Kickoff. KRTU-FM has grown from a 10-watt radio station in the 1970s to one with a worldwide audience via live streaming. One of the most serious and professional college radio stations [...]
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The Many Faces of Knowledge: Coates Keeps it Cool
Students kick back with coffee and conversation in Java City, located near the main entrance of Coates Library. The famed fourth century B.C. library at Alexandria, built under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, was charged with collecting the world’s entire corpus of knowledge. It is estimated to have contained as many as [...]
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School of Rock: Pearl Jam Comes to Class
Long before Kristine Weglarz became a media scholar, she was a music fan. During her first semester of college, in the autumn of 2000, she was more likely to be found in the audience of an arena rock concert than in the library. That year alone, Weglarz saw her favorite band, Pearl Jam, in [...]
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Judy McEwen: Chicken Sensat-HEN
Judy McEwen just can’t stop thinking about chickens. “I grew up in Detroit, so I started out as a MichiGANDER,” the short and curvy 57-year-old McEwen says with a twinkle in her blue eyes. “I changed species when I moved down south and became a TexHEN. Then I flew the coop when I moved to [...]
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Trinity Today
Faculty | Staff Focus
Art and Art History Trish Simonite participated in three local group exhibitions during the FotoSeptiembre/SAFOTO month-long celebration of photography: “Wabi Sabi” at Northwest Vista Community College, “The View From Here,” at The Bismark Studios Contemporary Fine Art, and “A Photographic Survey & Selected Works From The Region,” in conjunction with the Society for Photographic Education [...]
Planning Strategy in Place: Campus-wide Trinity Tomorrow Initiative to Define New Liberal Arts
Immediately following his arrival on campus in January 2010, President Dennis A. Ahlburg initiated a comprehensive strategic planning process to set the course for the future of Trinity University. Titled Trinity Tomorrow, the initiative will enable the University to anticipate and respond to changes in the higher education landscape and the world as a whole. [...]
Center for the Sciences and Innovation Reaches Construction Milestone
The construction of the Center for the Sciences and Innovation (CSI) hit a milestone in early January when Phase 2 of the multi-year project reached completion. The five-story wing attached to the Cowles Life Sciences building, the hub of the complex, includes chemistry and biology labs, general classroom space, chemical storage space, and a lecture hall. [...]
Alumnews
Dave Mansen ’76 to Head National Alumni Board
Dave Mansen ’76 graduated from Trinity with a degree in business. He has been an active member of Trinity’s Alumni Association for more than 20 years and was inaugurated as the new president of the National Alumni Board during Alumni Weekend 2011. Mansen’s experience collaborating with committee members, his vision to integrate long-range planning objectives [...]
Athletic Hall of Fame
Trinity University inducted nine members into the Athletic Hall of Fame during halftime ceremonies at the Tigers Oct. 8 football game during Alumni Weekend. It marked the seventh class to be honored since 1999. At a reception in the Bell Center following the ceremony, honoree Jerry Grote held current Trinity athletes spellbound for half an [...]
Rackspace co-founder honored as Outstanding Young Alumnus
Dirk Elmendorf ’97 is the tenth graduate to receive the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. Pictured with Elmendorf are Cristal Glangchai, left, associate director of Trinity’s Entrepreneurship Center, and President Dennis Ahlburg. Dirk Elmendorf ’97 graduated from Trinity with a degree in economics. In 1999, he co-founded Rackspace Managed Hosting with two fellow Trinitonians. Until 2009, [...]
Profiles
Davey Johnson ‘64: Baseball by the Numbers
Baseball great Davey Johnson is known for many things: as starting second baseman with the Baltimore Orioles, winning four American League pennants and two World Series in the 60s and 70s; as a three-time Gold Glove winner; as a 2010 inductee into the New York Mets Hall of Fame; and as legendary manager of five [...]
Cliff Zintgraff ‘85: Minding the Future
If San Antonian Cliff Zintgraff sounds a teensy bit geeky, it’s because, well, he is. “Absolutely,” he says, goofily pretending to look for a nonexistent pocket protector. “I was the kid spending two hours after school every day in the computer lab.” Maybe it’s the fond memory of those times at Lee High School after [...]
Michelle Htun-Kay ‘97: World Class
Catching up with Michelle Htun-Kay isn’t easy. First, there’s the distance: Oman is a country that borders the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia with a ten-hour time difference from San Antonio. Skype-ing is illegal; Facebook just recently became allowed. Then there’s her schedule: As communications strategist for Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) in Muscat – [...]
Michelle Mudge-Riley ’99: The Doctor’s Doctor
A funny thing happened to Michelle Mudge-Riley, D.O., on her way to becoming a doctor. Then again, maybe not so funny. More like confused, lonely, angry, guilty, and scared – words that do not immediately come to mind when imagining a doctor’s life, and certainly not the charmed life that Mudge-Riley had envisioned since childhood. [...]
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President’s Message
I find myself facing the New Year with enthusiasm and optimism about Trinity University and its ability to meet the challenges of the coming years. We are keenly aware of the need to keep pace with a rapidly changing world and thus are vigilantly evaluating and re-evaluating the comprehensive experience we offer our students. Trinity [...]
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From the Editor
From the Editor
When biology and chemistry students return for the spring 2012 semester, they will be among the first students to study and research in the stunning new Center for the Sciences and Innovation. Equipment and materials were still being moved in at press time, so look for exciting pictures later on the Trinity website and in [...]
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Advancement
The Ties That Bind: Chapman First Among Transformative Trinity Families
Walk around the Trinity campus and you’ll notice two names pop up again and again: Chapman and McFarlin. There’s the Chapman Center, which includes the recently reconfigured 178-seat Chapman Auditorium; the Chapman-Cowles Fountain; the Isabel McFarlin Residence Hall; and the Myrtle McFarlin Residence Hall. Many more buildings have plaques acknowledging the generosity of the James [...]
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Commentary
Commentary: August 23, 2011
Dear Professor Smetzer, I read with great enjoyment and affection the article about you in today’s Trinity magazine. I was stunned to see that I was also mentioned in the article—at least I assume I was the student with the “ingrained fear and dread of math” to whom you referred. I was happy to read [...]
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Deja View
Farewell to Moody Engineering Building
In 1963, Trinity inaugurated a four-year engineering degree program, operating out of cramped quarters in the Marrs McLean Science Center. President James W. Laurie promised the entering engineering majors that they would have their own building before they graduated. Laurie persuaded the Board of Trustees to authorize groundbreaking for the new building even though the [...]
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Profiles in Generosity
