“Welcome to the new academic year and, for many of you, to the formal beginning to your life as a member of the Trinity College family,” Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney said to the crowd gathered on the Main Quad on September 1. “Students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends, we are all part of the Bantam family.”
Joining the Trinity College community this week are 575 members of the Class of 2026, in addition to 27 transfer students and 5 new Individualized Degree Program students. The members of the Class of 2026 will make history in four years when they graduate at the college’s 200th Commencement.
Fourteen tenure-track faculty members began new appointments at Trinity College on July 1, 2022. Eight of these new faculty members were hired through the college’s Special Opportunity Hiring (SOH) initiative, which was launched last year to help increase faculty diversity.
Shirin Dadina ’24 and Anastasia Hanifin ’23 conducted research with Trinity Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Sally Bernardina Seraphin this summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The nonprofit history magazine Connecticut Explored has included Trinity faculty members and projects among its new list of “Game Changers” advancing the study, interpretation, and dissemination of Connecticut history. The honorees include Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts Pablo Delano and a project led by Professor of Educational Studies Jack Dougherty.
An experiential learning trip through the parks, canyons, and waterways of Utah this summer gave Trinity students a memorable new perspective on environmental science. Eleven students and three faculty members spent 10 days paddling, hiking, camping in the desert and on riverbanks, and learning about the natural world all around them.
This summer, Bantams are exploring opportunities across disciplines as they take on internships relating to their majors and future career goals. Here, four Trinity students talk about their experiences and how their summer roles have them looking forward to what comes next at Trinity and beyond.
“It has been very interesting and somewhat challenging to be a part of a fast-moving start-up with such ambitions,” Ethan Jacunski ’24 said of his summer internship with SparkCharge, the creator of a portable electric vehicle charging system. “Every day is something new.”
A Public Humanities Collaborative research project this summer turned two Trinity College students into detectives of history, as they worked to tell the stories of inmates at the country’s first state prison and to investigate the roots of mass incarceration.
For two summers, Xavier Mercado ’24 has led a classroom through the Breakthrough Collaborative, which promotes education equity and trains college students for careers in education.
As a longtime community partner of Forge City Works (formerly Billings Forge Community Works), Trinity College recently helped to celebrate FCW’s progress toward opening a new restaurant on Broad Street that will be part of the organization’s life-changing culinary and customer service job training programs.
Megan Bodmer ’23, a double major in theater and dance and film studies, has worked as a production assistant for four movies based in Connecticut, and has spent her time this summer on film sets and working in Trinity’s Office of Community Service and Civic Engagement.
