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July in Pictures

Summer is for soccer, science, sunshine and Shakespeare.

 

Youth soccer players in colorful shirts play on a college green with a row of trees and a chapel steeple looming in the background.

Connecticut College Summer Soccer Camp participants scrimmage on Tempel Green. 

Summer Soccer Camp 

A pair of men's college soccer players in dark blue zipper hoodies with a CC logo speak to a group of youth soccer players on a wooded green outside a granite academic building.
Men’s Soccer players Gavin Mpiana ’27 and Marco Perugini ’27 give instructions to their young campers as they transition between elements at the 2026 Connecticut College Summer Soccer Camp on Fanning Green.
A female college soccer player in a light blue windbreaker and a college soccer t-shirt raises her arms to give direction to a group of youth soccer players wearing red shirts on an open college green.
Women’s Soccer player Talia Metz-Topodas ’29 works with campers during week one of the Summer Soccer Camp.
A college student with curly hair, glasses and wearing an olive green t-shirt holds a measuring stick in one hand and the end of a tape measure in the other while a woman in a white t-shirt holds the other end of the tape measure over a plant.

Arboretum intern Abraham Moreno ’29 works with Erin Fogarty, Arboretum curator and information resources manager, to chart the health of plantings around the Crozier-Williams student center on July 16.

A male college student in baggy shorts and an untucked long-sleeve shirt, with the sleeves rolled up, walks backwards and gestures while leading a tour along a pedestrian walkway lined with tall black lampposts with little accent lights strung diagonally overhead.

Summer Admission intern Ty Schoeningh ’28 leads a campus tour along the Cro Boulevard pedestrian promenade. 

Summer blooms

A yellow swallowtail butterfly, with bright yellow wings framed in black with blue and orange spots rests on a bright purple blossom.

A yellow swallowtail butterfly flits across garden phlox blooms outside of the New London Hall greenhouse. 

A flower blossom of six long pointy petals of dark orange with light orange/yellow streaks along the edges and down the center.
A Hemerocallis fulva, or orange daylily, blooms outside of Blaustein Humanities Center.
A bright red flower made up of very small petals arranged in an elongated blade pattern glistens with water droplets.
Crocosima crocosmiiflora, or montbretia, glistens with water droplets outside the Crozier-Williams student center.

 

Dance students spring off the floor with pointed toes while also bent over forward with their hands thrown out to the sides in a dance studio space.

Bridget Silva ’27, front, participates in a David Dorfman Dance Company Emerging Artist Summer Intensive session on dance technique led by Professor of Dance David Dorfman. Dancers spend the week on campus working with Dorfman and other members of David Dorfman Dance, Connecticut College’s company-in-residence. The intensive culminates with student and company performances. 

A fond farewell 

A female college professor in a light green vertical stripe dress clasps her hands to her chest as a crowd stands and applauds around her.
Faculty and staff give a standing ovation after remarks by departing Dean of the Faculty Danielle Egan at a reception in her honor in Hood Dining Room. Egan is leaving to serve as president of Bennington College in Vermont.
A female college professor in a light green vertical stripe dress embraces a colleague in a brown shirt amidst a crowd of colleagues.
Departing Dean of the Faculty Danielle Egan gets a hug from Maria Rosa, the George & Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology, during a farewell gathering.
A small brown rabbit leans back on its haunches with ears perked up and head turned slightly to watch a passerby while standing amidst some untreated mulch.

A juvenile eastern cottontail rabbit watches for danger among the mountain laurel in the Arboretum. 

A pair of Shakespearean actors, one dressed as a sailor, one in a red jacket with orange sash belt and skullcap perform on an outdoor stage with prop boxes in the background.

Nathan Romney, as Antonio, left, and Ryan Brearley ’28, as Sebastian, perform in the in the first scene of the second act of the Flock Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will  in the Arboretum Amphitheater. Flock Theatre was found by Derron Wood ’88. 

Twelfth Night, or As You Will 

An audience seated in folding chairs and on blankets on the grass watch a performance of a Shakespeare play in an arboretum amphitheater with a pond in the background.
The cast of a theater company in various period garb gather backstage of an outdoor amphitheater before performing Shakespeare's

Flock Theater performs William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will  in the Arboretum Amphitheater. 

A landscaping crew with a large tanker truck sprays water over a newly planted sod field creating a rainbow under the stream of water.

A crew from E.A. Quinn Landscape Contracting waters the newly completed Cro-Plex connector.

 

Three college staffers gather around a table with their laptop computers in a small conference room.

Professor of Theater Ginny Anderson, left, meets with Megan Griffen and Luis Rodríguez from the Holleran Center for Public Policy and Community Action to plan the fall semester Program in Community Actin (PICA) course.

Two college students, one holding a pair of pressed plants on large sheets of white paper, the other standing behind a living flowering plant, stand at a podium to present research in a college auditorium.

Summer Science Research Institute interns Henry Pfeifer ’28 and Alex Mello ’28 present their research on the effects of Mugwort, an invasive plant species, on native plants during the weekly SSRI Colloquium in Olin Auditorium. 

Summer Science Colloquium  

College students seated in an auditorium applaud.
Summer Science Research Institute interns applaud a presentation by their fellow student researchers during the weekly SSRI Colloquium in Olin Auditorium.
A male college student in dark polo shirt and glasses gestures while speaking standing between two female college students at a podium.
Summer Science Research Institute interns Nutsa Mamulaishvili ’27, Kaiden Dalby ’28 and Mahedere Amare ’28 present the work they did with Hans & Ella McCollum ’21 Vahlteich Professor of Chemistry Timo V. Ovaska during the weekly SSRI Colloquium.
A crowd of college faculty, staff, and students, gather in a campus pub setting eating ice cream and socializing.

Students, staff and faculty gather for the inaugural summer Chap Treats event July 7 at Humphrey’s Social Club in the Crozier-Williams student center. President Andrea E. Chapdelaine invited the campus community in for frozen treats and socializing.

A female college student in crop top and jeans carries a bright red umbrella walking along a pedestrian walkway with small lights strung overhead from the lampposts and scattered leaf debris on the ground.

Summer Science Research Institute intern Caitlin Cormier ’27 walks along the Cro Boulevard Pedestrian Promenade en route to her lab on a drizzly Tuesday in July.



August 3, 2026

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