Adam Hill
@adhillphd.bsky.social
Physical chemistry professor, spectroscopist, materials scientist, photographer.
Assoc. Prof., Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
https://www.adhillgroup.info/
Assoc. Prof., Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
https://www.adhillgroup.info/
We held our annual Chemis-Tree Department Holiday Party and there was, naturally, some arts-and-crafts time to make ornaments. I made an ornament to represent the abstract concept of the D3h symmetry point group (because it didn’t quite have the 6-fold symmetry I was initially aiming for…)
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We held our annual Chemis-Tree Department Holiday Party and there was, naturally, some arts-and-crafts time to make ornaments. I made an ornament to represent the abstract concept of the D3h symmetry point group (because it didn’t quite have the 6-fold symmetry I was initially aiming for…)
Happy Thanksgiving from Hartford, Connecticut!
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from Hartford, Connecticut!
Too many clouds for good aurora borealis drone photography but not for good Trinity College drone photography.
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Too many clouds for good aurora borealis drone photography but not for good Trinity College drone photography.
Want to know exactly the moment serotonin binds to an ion channel? Our latest work in the IJMS Advances in Fluorescent Sensors special issue shows how charge transfer to serotonin quenches the fluorescence of amino acid ANAP in the ligand binding site of 5-HT3A.
www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...
www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Want to know exactly the moment serotonin binds to an ion channel? Our latest work in the IJMS Advances in Fluorescent Sensors special issue shows how charge transfer to serotonin quenches the fluorescence of amino acid ANAP in the ligand binding site of 5-HT3A.
www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...
www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...
Who says professors don't dress like we used to? (BU Associate Dean Joseph Bizup (left) and me.)
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Who says professors don't dress like we used to? (BU Associate Dean Joseph Bizup (left) and me.)
No Kings protest in Hartford, CT.
October 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
No Kings protest in Hartford, CT.
Four Hill Group members presented the results of their work at Trinity College’s Summer Research Symposium. Great work, everyone!
September 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Four Hill Group members presented the results of their work at Trinity College’s Summer Research Symposium. Great work, everyone!
Living in downtown Hartford is a joy, and sometimes I get to capture it with my drone: decaseconds.com/2025/09/26/b...
Bushnell Tower with a Great Sky
A Romantic sunset sky with lots of highly textured clouds makes a perfect companion for the rough but linear concrete forms of I.M. Pei’s Bushnell Tower.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Living in downtown Hartford is a joy, and sometimes I get to capture it with my drone: decaseconds.com/2025/09/26/b...
Kentucky is a great place for drone photography: decaseconds.com/2025/08/06/i...
Interstate Crosses South Elkhorn Creek
Morning light shines over Interstate 64 crossing South Elkhorn Creek in Midway, Kentucky.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Kentucky is a great place for drone photography: decaseconds.com/2025/08/06/i...
Up at dawn for the first day of Pony Finals and everything is quiet around the cottage. Ponies remain at Kentucky Horse Park during PF and the horses have headed back to Wisconsin after a busy Kentucky Summer Classic, so the paddocks are now empty.
August 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Up at dawn for the first day of Pony Finals and everything is quiet around the cottage. Ponies remain at Kentucky Horse Park during PF and the horses have headed back to Wisconsin after a busy Kentucky Summer Classic, so the paddocks are now empty.
My fantastic wife, Dr. @piperklemm.bsky.social, is in a documentary about her riding at the Devon Horse Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYI6...
Inside The Ingate | Season 2 | Episode 2
YouTube video by Kelly Berry
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August 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
My fantastic wife, Dr. @piperklemm.bsky.social, is in a documentary about her riding at the Devon Horse Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYI6...
X marks the (coffee) spot. My colleagues and I go for coffee at Peter B’s every morning; those walks are the perfect chance to reconnect and bounce ideas off one another.
July 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
X marks the (coffee) spot. My colleagues and I go for coffee at Peter B’s every morning; those walks are the perfect chance to reconnect and bounce ideas off one another.
My brother, mom, and I did a “Track Tapas” event at Lime Rock Park. We grew up in a family that loved driving, so it was (unsurprisingly) delightful to set our sports cars loose.
I also grew up reading “Car and Driver” and “Popular Mechanics,” so the drone got the “cliché comparison test photo”.
I also grew up reading “Car and Driver” and “Popular Mechanics,” so the drone got the “cliché comparison test photo”.
July 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My brother, mom, and I did a “Track Tapas” event at Lime Rock Park. We grew up in a family that loved driving, so it was (unsurprisingly) delightful to set our sports cars loose.
I also grew up reading “Car and Driver” and “Popular Mechanics,” so the drone got the “cliché comparison test photo”.
I also grew up reading “Car and Driver” and “Popular Mechanics,” so the drone got the “cliché comparison test photo”.
Hartford skies matched the psychedelic sounds of Khruangbin at Capitol Groove in Hartford, Connecticut.
June 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Hartford skies matched the psychedelic sounds of Khruangbin at Capitol Groove in Hartford, Connecticut.
Summer nights at @trinitycollege.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Summer nights at @trinitycollege.bsky.social
Berkeley is once again the top public institution in the world!
news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/18/u...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/18/u...
UC Berkeley ranked nation's top public university by U.S. News - Berkeley News
In an evaluation of more than 2,250 universities around the world, Berkeley ranked sixth overall.
news.berkeley.edu
June 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Berkeley is once again the top public institution in the world!
news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/18/u...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/06/18/u...
I'm part of a group searching for Trinity College-Hartford's next Director of Career and Life Design: www.careerleadershipcollective.com/trinity
We'd love to have you as part of our team—please don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions.
We'd love to have you as part of our team—please don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions.
Trinity | The Collective
The Collecitve is assisting with the search for a career services leader at Trinity College.
www.careerleadershipcollective.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm part of a group searching for Trinity College-Hartford's next Director of Career and Life Design: www.careerleadershipcollective.com/trinity
We'd love to have you as part of our team—please don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions.
We'd love to have you as part of our team—please don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions.
The Hill Group at @trinitycollege.bsky.social, summer 2025.
We wanted to fit our transient absorption laser system in the shot, too.
We wanted to fit our transient absorption laser system in the shot, too.
June 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Hill Group at @trinitycollege.bsky.social, summer 2025.
We wanted to fit our transient absorption laser system in the shot, too.
We wanted to fit our transient absorption laser system in the shot, too.
@trinitycollege.bsky.social on a summer night.
Drone photography opens a whole new view of our campus.
Drone photography opens a whole new view of our campus.
June 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
@trinitycollege.bsky.social on a summer night.
Drone photography opens a whole new view of our campus.
Drone photography opens a whole new view of our campus.
Government funding of scientific research has made our nation and our world a remarkably better place—and returns approximately $5 in benefits for every $1 spent. If you needed a random grab-bag of interesting examples, here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s... (linked past the NYT paywall)
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
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May 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Government funding of scientific research has made our nation and our world a remarkably better place—and returns approximately $5 in benefits for every $1 spent. If you needed a random grab-bag of interesting examples, here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s... (linked past the NYT paywall)
A red-tailed hawk surveys Hartford, Connecticut from the top of Trinity College’s chapel.
May 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A red-tailed hawk surveys Hartford, Connecticut from the top of Trinity College’s chapel.
Spring 2025 grades submitted!
May 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Spring 2025 grades submitted!
And a few more shots of my research students with their posters.
May 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
And a few more shots of my research students with their posters.
Everyone in the Hill Group presented a poster at Trinity College’s Research Symposium—and they voted to wear their new group shirts for the event.
May 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Everyone in the Hill Group presented a poster at Trinity College’s Research Symposium—and they voted to wear their new group shirts for the event.
Reposted by Adam Hill
Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn
Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning
Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations
scim.ag
April 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn