June 2026 month in pictures

A college student in short pants and bare feet sits and reads in an Adirondack style chair in the shade of a tree on a college green with granite buildings in the distance.

Henry Pfeifer ’28, who is participating in Conn’s eight-week Summer Science Research Institute, uses his lunch break to catch up on some reading.

A female college students with large eyeglasses hoop earrings and temporary star tattoos on her cheeks smiles as she looks at a child who's hand she is holding while applying a temporary tattoo at a table in an outdoor setting. .

Holleran Center Summer Civic Leader Adriana Manzano ’28 applies a temporary tattoo for a young visitor at a PRIDE event hosted by Alliance for Living on June 25 in Williams Park. Manzano is one of 20 students participating in the Summer Civic Leaders program, which supports work in civic and community-based engagement in New London.

A female college students sits at a table covered in produce and assembles bouquets of wildflowers.

Sprout Garden summer intern Mia Cecchettini ’27 bundles bouquets of wildflowers at the weekly Sprout Garden Farmers’ Market in Crozier-Williams student center.

Aerial view of a college campus with a river and ocean in the distance.

An aerial view of campus looking south from the new Cro-Plex connector, which is nearly complete.

Two construction workers in bright yellow vests and blue hardhats guide a chute pouring concrete to a wheelbarrow at a walkway construction site on a college campus.

Contractors pour concrete to complete the Cro-Plex connector walkways in late June.

A man wearing blue food-service gloves places slices of cheese on hamburger patties cooking on a grill on an outdoor deck surrounded by trees as high school students wait wit plates in hand.

Associate Director for Community Engagement Patrick Lynch runs the grill as the Summer Civic Leaders program hosts New London High School students for a Horizons Beyond High School cookout at Buck Lodge in the Arboretum.

A college professor in graphic t-shirt watches as two students work on a botany experiment on plants in a greenhouse.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies Michelle Jackson-Huaqui works with Summer Science Research Institute interns Alex Mello ’28 and Henry Pfeifer ’28 in the New London Hall greenhouse. More than 50 students are participating in 18 different labs across campus as part of the eight-week funded student-faculty research program.

A college professor watches two students in white lab coats as fog from liquid nitrogen bubbles up from a flask in a college chemistry lab.

Hans & Ella McCollum ’21 Vahlteich Professor of Chemistry Timo V. Ovaska works with Summer Science Research Institute interns Nutsa Mamulaishvili ’27 and Mahedere Amare ’28 in Hale Lab.

College biology students in chest waders stand in knee-deep water retrieving marine life samples from a seine net.

Summer Science Research Institute interns Dax Arnold ’27, Joshua Caskey ’27, Sasha Jansujwicz ’27, Sadie Joseph ’28, Rhea Mallery ’27 and Mia Gonzalez ’27 retrieve marine life samples from a net as they work with George & Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology Maria Rosa at Camels Reef at the Kohn Waterfront.

A group of college students stand in front of an audience for a question and answer period after making presentations.

A group of Holleran Center Summer Civic Leaders take questions after delivering the final presentations for their seven-week internships with community partners.

Two female college students sit at a table and work on laptop computers in a college student center.

Annie Zhang ’29 and Diana Tynda ’29 work on their Summer Civic Leaders presentations in the Crozier-Williams student center.

A red-tailed hawk with wings spread wide lands on an ornate weather vane against a blue sky and scattered clouds.

A red-tailed hawk alights on the Harkness Chapel weathervane.

bright yellow day lilies bloom in front of a college residence hall with the name

Daylilies bloom in front of Larrabee House on June 11.

A female college student wearing blue gloves peers into a binocular microscope as two other students watch in the background.

Ella Dorwin ’27 takes a turn at the microscope as Keyla Guaman ’28, Jelsey Rua ’27 and Greysin Phillips ’28 wait their turns. The students are working with George and Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology E. Carla Parker-Athill as part of the Summer Science Research Institute.

pond lilies fill a pond surrounded by trees.

Lily pads fill most of the Arboretum pond in late June.

A college library employee opens the building door alongside a row of Adirondack style rocking chairs in front of a glass-front wall on a concrete patio.

Director of Research and Curricular Technology Jessica McCullough arrives for work in Shain Library on June 24.

A contractor in orange shirt and blue hardhat uses a power washing wand to clean a pedestrian walkway lined with light poles and with a granite-faced college building in the distance.

A contractor power washes the Cro Boulevard Pedestrian Promenade as work wraps up on the Cro-Plex connector project in late June.

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