The “Telling Our Covid Stories” initiative, launched in the spring 2020 semester by the college’s Center for Hartford Engagement and Research (CHER), invited students to submit proposals for creative projects that could help deepen the understanding of different people’s experiences of the crisis and how communities have responded.
Online summer program to begin June 15
Over the past month and a half, alumni and parents have shown the compassion and dedication that are a hallmark of the Trinity College community by contributing more than $5 million to support students, families, and faculty.
The Trinity College community recently celebrated the graduates of the Class of 2020 through two online events. Members of this year’s graduating class were honored with a virtual Baccalaureate program and a special tribute video, both of which they could view remotely with their families from anywhere around the world.
NBC Connecticut recently highlighted the efforts of the Trinity College field hockey team to set up a virtual race in support of coronavirus relief.
President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has announced the appointment of five new trustees to the Trinity College Board of Trustees; they will begin their terms on July 1, 2020. Berger-Sweeney also announced the board’s leadership succession plan for 2021.
Members of Trinity’s classes of 2008 and 2009 give timely advice to the Class of 2020 about navigating a difficult post-graduation job market.
Trinity trustee and alumnus Eric Fossum’s invention enables video capabilities worldwide
Xiaomeng “Mona” Deng ’16, a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, helped establish LA COVID Volunteers (LACV) to support Los Angeles-area health care workers in the fight against the novel coronavirus.
Miranda was awarded the U.S. Student Fulbright Binational Internship Grant in Mexico City
Brendan W. Clark ’21 spent several weeks searching through the digital archives of Trinity’s Watkinson Library to research his project, “Trinity College and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918,” which is now the first exhibit in the Watkinson Library Virtual Museum.
Trinity College students, faculty, and staff are finding ways to continue supporting the Hartford community, even while following social distancing rules during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to a remote volunteering initiative created by the college’s Center for Hartford Engagement and Research (CHER).
