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Trinity alumna Kari Sweeney Efferen ’03, a research scientist and associate director at the pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer, speaks to the Trinity community about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and answers questions about how one can be developed so quickly during a worldwide pandemic.

Twenty-six students are honored for the highest academic achievement in their first year at the college. Students remain Deans’ Scholars through the end of their sophomore year.

Students in one Trinity College course are sharing their knowledge of public policy in a series of columns published by The Connecticut Mirror this semester.

With the in-person portion of the fall 2020 semester concluded, Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney is sharing her thoughts about what the challenges of the past several months have meant for students and for educational equity.

Kristine Belson ’86, president of Sony Pictures Animation, joins Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney for an animated conversation about her days in Hartford and her entertainment career in Hollywood.

Trinity College economics major Olivia Barden ’21 designed her senior thesis as a timely response to COVID-19 and worked this semester with students, faculty, staff, and affiliate partners across campus to carry it out.

Professor Dario Euraque’s history class gets a lesson in Central American immigration

Trinity College Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance Rebecca Pappas partnered this semester with Trinity alumna Jasmin Agosto ’10 to create a “Performing Hartford” Community Learning course and performance series highlighting Hartford artists.

Trinity College student Tiana Starks ’21 spoke recently with Hartford Promise about her experience making the transition from Hartford’s Global Communications Academy to the Trinity campus. “Every time I went on Trinity’s campus, I felt a sense of belonging,” she said. Starks talked about what it’s like to be a college student in the time of COVID-19 and what her educational journey means to her.

In his new memoir, “Our Sixties: An Activist’s History,” Paul Lauter, Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature, Emeritus, at Trinity College, offers a look at the social justice struggles of the 1960s and a personal account of how his activism shaped his life and his work.