Adam Hill

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.
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Prof. Joseph Bizup and Prof. Adam Hill wearing traditional professor outfits.

Prof. Joseph Bizup and Prof. Adam Hill wearing traditional professor outfits.

Prof. Joseph Bizup and Prof. Adam Hill wearing traditional professor outfits.

Who says professors don't dress like we used to? (BU Associate Dean Joseph Bizup (left) and me.)

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!

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.

Living in downtown Hartford is a joy, and sometimes I get to capture it with my drone: decaseconds.com/2025/09/26/b...

Interstate Crosses South Elkhorn Creek Morning light shines over Interstate 64 crossing South Elkhorn Creek in Midway, Kentucky.

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.

YouTube video by Kelly Berry Inside The Ingate | Season 2 | Episode 2

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.

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”.

Hartford skies matched the psychedelic sounds of Khruangbin at Capitol Groove in Hartford, Connecticut.

Summer nights at @trinitycollege.bsky.social

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.

Berkeley is once again the top public institution in the world!
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.

The Hill Group at @trinitycollege.bsky.social, summer 2025.
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.

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

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.

Spring 2025 grades submitted!

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.

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

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

Great blue heron spotted during a spectacular sunset in Hartford’s Bushnell Park.

Obvious bias aside, I think I have solid data to argue that no campus can match Trinity College’s in the spring.

Members of the Hill Group traveled to the ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego to present our results studying photoinduced electron transfers.

🧪⚛️ If you want to sign a petition to protect the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group, here's an opportunity: www.change.org/p/oppose-the...

Hat tip to @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social for sharing this.

ACS Spring 2025 let’s go!

Variable-pressure SEM is up and running! We captured image of the micron-scale structure of an uncoated Thai Buddhist amulet.

Ponies Are Not All the Same. They Come in Small, Medium and Large. In the equestrian world, those sizes make a big difference in competition and in the animal’s value.

The @nytimes.com quoted @piperklemm.bsky.social (again) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/s...