Fall 2024 Selection
2024 Selection: the podcast House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy
Program goals:
- Foster Community.
- Engage in dialogue about loneliness.
- Promote and encourage social connections.
What is Read TUgether?
Learn TUgether, Grow TUgether is a program designed to bring the Trinity community together around an important theme and conversation: loneliness and the power of social connection.
What changed for 2024?
The Learn TUgether, Grow TUgether program is a iteration of Reading TUgether (or Common Read) with a focus on access and equity of the text or medium. For its pilot year, we chose a freely available podcast House Calls by Dr. Vivek Murthy. The committee selected Murthy based on his expertise and experience with public health issues including loneliness and the power of social connection. He published his findings on loneliness in 2020. In June 2022 he started the podcast House Calls to "explore the uncertainties of life and how to find meaning and joy along the way."
Previous titles
2021: Long Shot by Craig Hodges
2019: On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong by Raymond Bonner
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddartha Mukherjee
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
► Read more! Greg Mortenson delivered the first Read TUgether lecture in 2008
2024 Committee Members
Audrey Stewart, librarian
Bradley Dusing, librarian
Marina Waltom, Instructional Designer
Regina Romero, Academic Advisor
Glo Cardenas, Strategic Comm & Marketing
Marcy Youngdahl, University Physician
Greg Hazleton, Director Environmental Studies
Jacob Tingle, Business Professor
LadyStacie Rimes Boyd, Associate Director Campus Relations
Molly Mata, Faculty Development Coordinator
Mindy Tran Champion, Asst. Director Orientation & Transitions