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Jackpot winner sophomore Luke Edwards

Jackpot!

How Luke Edwards exercises creativity in one of the most rigorous majors at Trinity
Devon Bellamy, Pulse Reporter September 20, 2024

Often, students at Trinity University have to make the heart-wrenching decision between advancing their academic career and investing their valuable time into their passions. For Luke Edwards, sophomore...

Denae French, Sophomore, BAT and Accounting double-major

Jackpot! Denae French finds peace in uncertainty

Daniel Itkins, Pulse Reporter September 5, 2024

For Denae French, sophomore business analytics and technology (BAT) and accounting double-major, choosing Trinity meant leaving her beloved state of Colorado behind. Nevertheless, she chose to further...

Araceli Amador highlights her time here at Trinity

Jackpot! Araceli Amador carries on

Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor February 1, 2024

The college application process can be daunting and confusing, but for Araceli Amador, senior biology major, the process was made even more difficult. As the first from their family to go to college, Amador...

Emily Jamieson

Jackpot! Senior EJ Jamieson reflects on her time at Trinity and imposter syndrome

Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor January 25, 2024

When EJ Jamieson, senior environmental studies major, started her first year at Trinity, everything was shut down. It was fall 2020, and she had to both end her high school experience and start her college...

Lizette Hernandez

Jackpot! Lizette Hernandez fights for a more equitable future

Catherine Zarr September 21, 2023

Trinity University was certainly familiar to first-year Lizette Hernandez, who has lived in San Antonio her entire life. In fact, Hernandez’s high school graduation occurred right in Alamo Stadium, but...

Aiden Potoczniak

Jackpot! Aiden Potoczniak takes on sports, finance and performance

Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor September 15, 2023

For junior finance major and sport management minor Aiden Potoczniak, sports are more than a hobby or pastime. As a club soccer player and lifelong fan of the game, Potoczniak sees sports as a service,...

Jackpot! Catching up with Kaelin Leishman

Jackpot! Catching up with Kaelin Leishman

Jackpot is a series in which we profile a variety of students and their interesting lives. Every story highlights a different student, whom we’ve selected at random. This week we talked to Kaelin Leishman, sophomore engineering science major and track and field athlete.
Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor August 31, 2023

Whether as a recruited track and field athlete or vice president of Trinity University Motorsports, Kaelin Leishman, sophomore engineering science major, has always been on the fast track of life. She’s...

Jackpot! Karine Valle Martinez taps into her inner strength

Jackpot is a series in which we profile a variety of students and their interesting lives. Every story highlights a different student, whom we've selected at random.
Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor February 23, 2023

After classes each day, many Trinity students head back to their dorms to relax, grab food, study or catch up with friends. Not Karine Valle Martinez. After her last class gets out at 2:30, she heads off...

Jackpot! Reed Rosales takes on sports commentary and highpointing

Jackpot! Reed Rosales takes on sports commentary and highpointing

Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor February 9, 2023

Sophomore Reed Rosales got his first taste of sports broadcasting in high school. He worked as a camera operator, filming games and occasionally directing game coverage — a passion he has continued to...

Jackpot! Aubrey Featherston: Fantasy novelist, environmental advocate and future dermatologist

Jackpot! Aubrey Featherston: Fantasy novelist, environmental advocate and future dermatologist

Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor February 2, 2023

A typical day for Aubrey Featherston, a junior environmental studies major and biology and chemistry minor, might include writing, solving a jigsaw puzzle or adding a new plant to her ever-growing collection....

Jackpot! Lilian De La Rosa takes on sociology and SPB

Jackpot! Lilian De La Rosa takes on sociology and SPB

Marielle Anne Sambilay February 12, 2020

Photo by Kate NuelleJackpot is a series in which we highlight a variety of students and their interesting lives. Every story highlights a different student, who we’ve selected at random. This week,...

Jackpot! Rosie Davis finds her sociological imagination

Jackpot! Rosie Davis finds her sociological imagination

Logan Crews January 23, 2020
Senior discusses her tough transition to Trinity, the role of empathy in the Academic Honor Council