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April in Pictures

The spring weather brought a healthy mix of arts, academics and activies this April. No fooling!

A male dancer leaps in the air during Senior Dance Recitals — Students perform “PATCHWORK” at the Senior Capstone Dance Concert April 19 at the Athey Center at Palmer Auditorium. The Concert featured pieces choreographed by senior dance majors, faculty and guest artists.

Save the last dance

3 dancers pose during Senior Dance Recitals

Group of dancers fanned out during Senior Dance Recitals

Students perform “PATCHWORK” at the Senior Capstone Dance Concert April 19 at the Athey Center at Palmer Auditorium. The Concert featured pieces choreographed by senior dance majors, faculty and guest artists.

Students play touch football on Tempel Green — Springtime brings a variety of fun activities on Tempel Green.

On the Green

A guitarist plays at Earth Day on Tempel Green — Eli Prybyla ’24 of the student band Prose & Conns plays a guitar solo as the band performs for Earth Day.

Students enjoy food from Food Trucks during Earth Day on Tempel Green — Students line up at the Soul Fully Vegan and Bloom Kitchen and Co. food trucks during Earth Day.

Jazmyn Gillespie clears the bar at 1.42m in the high jump at the Silfen Invitational track meet Saturday, April 15, 2023. — Jazmyn Gillespie ’24 clears the bar at 1.42m in the high jump at the Silfen Invitational track meet Saturday, April 15.

On track to win

Conn College’s Jeffrey Love ’23 competes in the 1500m at the Coast Guard Invitational track meet Saturday, April 8, 2023 in New London. — Jeffrey Love ’23 pulls ahead in the 1500m at the Coast Guard Invitational track meet Saturday, April 8, in New London.

Conn College’s Malissa Lindsey ’23 competes in the 100m at the Coast Guard Invitational track meet Saturday, April 8, 2023 in New London. — Conn’s Malissa Lindsey ’23 competes in the 100m at the Coast Guard Invitational track meet Saturday, April 8, in New London.

Hurdlers land in the water at a track meet in April. — Liz Freeman ’26 emerges from the water in front of her teammates in the 3000m steeple chase at the Silfen Invitational track meet.

A teacher instructs students on Tempel Green — When the weather is this nice, classes often move outdoors!

Learning in and out of the classroom

Close-up of students with safety glasses doing chemistry — Sam Pelletier ’23, left, uses a pipette to add a sample to a Mini-PROTEAN precast gel as her lab partner Mehin Suleiman ’23 looks on in Hale Lab.

Students using a printing press in a printmaking class — Kathryn “Birdy” Bird ’23, left, works with Lyell Castonguay of Big Ink to make a print from a wood cut created in Professor Tim McDowell’s ART 204 printmaking course in Cummings Arts Center.

Acclaimed environmental writer Elizabeth Rush signs autographs following her lecture at the sixth annual President’s Distinguished Lecture Series April 10.

Professor Graesch and students scan the grounds on an archeological dig. — Professor Anthony Graesch and field archaeology students Hannah Calaman ’24 and William Capuano ’26 walk a survey transect looking for surface artifacts on a field adjacent to the lower athletic fields.

Students silently marched along Chapel Way in remembrance of the Holocaust. — Ella Ifrah ’26, left, and Sarah Morgart ’26 lead a Six Million Steps for Six Million Lives march around campus as part of a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held by Zachs Hillel House on Tuesday, April 18.

Day of remembrance

The lighting of six Yahrzeit candles at Zachs Hillel House representing the six-million jews slaughtered in the Holocaust as part of the Six Million Steps for Six Million Lives international effort led by the Israeli-American Council Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

The lighting of six Yahrzeit candles at Zachs Hillel House represents the six million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. The ceremony is part of the Six Million Steps for Six Million Lives international effort led by the Israeli-American Council.

Students playing at a celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors Friday, April 14, 2023. — Mingyur Paldon ’23 and Maged Hassan ’25, at right, join others in dancing during the International Student Association and Office of Religious and Spiritual Programs’ celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, at the Cro BBQ pit.

A festival of colors

Students throw colored powder at each other during the International Student Association and Office of Religious and Spiritual Programs' celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors in April.