Rebecca Irakiza ’25 Ensures Safe Water Access Through Projects for Peace Grant
With a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant, Rebecca Irakiza ’25 worked last summer to provide better access to clean water in her home country of Burundi.
With a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant, Rebecca Irakiza ’25 worked last summer to provide better access to clean water in her home country of Burundi.
Trinity’s Entrepreneurship Center recently hosted Hartford area middle school students and middle and high school students from Singapore, Mexico, and China at a Global Youth Invention Summit Hackathon.
A rare piece of musical history from Trinity College’s Watkinson Library plays an integral part in a new documentary series from Connecticut Public called “Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery.”
For the fifth consecutive year, Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney is included on the Hartford Business Journal’s annual “Power 50” list of the most influential people in Connecticut. Berger-Sweeney has made the HBJ’s “Power 50” list every year since its inception in 2020.
Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Trinity College president and professor of neuroscience, has been appointed chair of the Hartford HealthCare Board of Directors.
In recognition of the Bicentennial, here are 23 things you may not know about this liberal arts institution, whose theme for its celebration is “Committed to the Future Since 1823.”
Ashira Biswas ‘24 attended the December Nobel Peace Prize ceremony where the award was conferred to Ales Bialiatski, pro-democracy activist from Belarus, and two human rights organizations, and Biswas was celebrated for her own achievement.
In an article from September 23, 2022, “They Took ‘No’ for an Answer: School’s Persistence Pays Off as Receiver DeVante Reid Drinks in Full College Experience and Chases Another Title,” the Courant chronicles how Reid was recruited to Trinity and the subsequent successes he’s had both on and off the field.
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.
In the July 4 Hartford Business Journal article, “Massive Fundraising Campaigns Offer CT Colleges a Key Financial Lifeline,” by Robert Storace, Trinity College Vice President for College Advancement Michael T. Casey discusses the success that the college has already seen in its current effort to raise $500 million.
A Connecticut Public story by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas M’17 reports on work by students in Professor of Educational Studies Jack A. Dougherty’s “Cities, Suburbs & Schools” course who created graphics to illustrate the current state of Hartford school integration.
Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney talks about her success as a leader in the interview series “Infosys: I Am the Future,” which focuses on the lives, stories, and experiences of inspiring women.