“My country is going through rough times,” said Daniel Santos Ramírez ’23, a Trinity College student from Caracas, Venezuela. “I came to Trinity and the U.S. to get skills and training to help make things better back home.” Santos Ramírez has co-founded a project called Yakera, an online platform empowering Venezuelans to create fundraising campaigns and access donations from around the world.
“My goal is to try to learn something about which demographics are demanding health insurance during the pandemic using exchanges and whether they are able to pay their premiums or not,” says Assistant Professor of Economics Gerardo Ruiz Sánchez.
Outside of the classroom, Trinity College offices and academic centers continue to offer many services, activities, and events for students in virtual formats, as college life adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With his summer plans upended by the pandemic, Trinity College senior Jeff Sagun ’21 created the Intercollegiate Neuroscience Research Journal Club, a 10-week online program that provides students around the world with access to current neuroscience-related research papers.
Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Henry Luce Foundation, which seeks to enrich public discourse by promoting innovative scholarship, cultivating new leaders, and fostering international understanding.
Maggie MacAlpine ’09, the co-founder of a company that offers election security services, is featured in the HBO documentary film ‘Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections.’
This year, the Jones-Zimmerman Academic Mentoring Program (J-Z AMP) at Trinity College had to move its learning online and find new ways to connect Trinity student mentors to middle school students at Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy (HMTCA).
Trinity College alumni Rhoden Monrose ’09, Karraine Moody ’01, and Marvin Pierre ’06 are making groundbreaking changes toward creating a more equitable world.
John Lawson ’20 recently spoke with members of Connecticut’s Jury Selection Task Force about the findings of his thesis research on racial bias and discrimination in jury selection at the state level.
“Trinity’s athletic department is tasked with running the school’s [COVID-19] testing program, an ambitious program that aims to test every student twice a week, faculty and staff once per week,” Dom Amore wrote recently in an article for The Hartford Courant.
Schneider becomes the first scholar from a small college to be named
With support from Trinity College staff, faculty, and affiliates, the Feeding 2020 Initiative has raised money to deliver hot meals to Hartford neighbors in need. The program began last spring and has been extended through the end of the year.
